Wealth mentor’s message to women: demand wealth and accomplishment without compromise Would you compromise your personal values for a dream job? Would you lie about a colleague to gain a promotion? According to research, if you’re a woman, the answer to these questions is probably “no” and, strikingly, this ethical integrity may actually be holding you […]
Category: Self Development
Choose Kinder Self-Talk and Say Goodbye to Shyness
Communication coach: enhance how you talk to others by changing how you talk to yourself Are you shy? Socially anxious? Quiet around others and hesitant to speak up with your point of view? Statistics show that social inhibition is a widespread phenomenon, with 40-60% of all adults admitting to some form of ‘shyness’.1 Thankfully, according to […]
IS YOUR LABEL OF MOTHER AND/OR WIFE KEEPING YOU TRAPPED?
~ One mother’s story of truth, freedom, and liberation ~ It all changed for social worker Doris Schachenhofer when she realized that it wasn’t only her clients — troubled teenagers, challenged adults and people with prison sentences — who were trapped by their life conditions and labels such as poor, uneducated, addict […]
6 Simple Ways to Evade ‘Empty-Nest Syndrome’
Tips to avoid ‘losing yourself’ in motherhood “Standing alone at the top of the stairs, she breaks down and cries to her husband, “Daddy, our baby’s gone.” In the 1967 song She’s Leaving Home, The Beatles relayed the anguish of a mother dealing with the departure of her daughter. The ’empty-nest syndrome’ is a widely recognized, […]
Why your past doesn’t dictate your future happiness
4 steps to finding freedom and leaving your story behind Most people are aware on some level that their childhood has helped shape the person they are today – for better or for worse. Drinkers, spenders, overeaters and other over-indulgers often learned their vices from what they observed growing up. But Dr Lisa Cooney, a […]
6 Ways to Deal with Difficult People
While most of us, hopefully, lead relatively contented lives with a circle of amicable friends, family and work colleagues it’s fair to say it’s not uncommon to have at least one relationship in your life that causes a bit of grief. It may be a colleague, an in law, a sibling, someone on the school […]
Get Out of Your Head and Into Your Gut
Expert shares 4 ways to trust your intuition There’s a lot of talk about the gut right now – gut health, gut balance, gut brains. And it seems we’re only at the start of a long scientific journey into the importance of our gut, both to our physical and mental health. Corinna Stoeffl, a counselor […]
Why We Need to Think Differently About Depression and Anxiety
7 steps to overcoming depression Depression is an enormous problem all around the world. Globally, more than 300 million people of all ages suffer from it, according to the World Health Organization. Some say it’s our environment, some say it is technology’s increasingly strong grip on our lives – the theories are many and […]
ONE WOMAN’S STRUGGLE TO FIND HER OWN VOICE NOW HELPS CORPORATE LEADERS INFLUENCE, INSPIRE AND MOTIVATE
Corporate Leadership Trainer Beate Nimsky, 66, has no problem presenting in front of 500+ people. She is a gun for hire, utilized by Ericsson, Europcar, Bosch, Siemens, and Georg Fischer Automotive and other companies wanting to positively influence their mindset and culture. As a child, however, Beate was silenced by her parents. Often. She […]
Empowering Daughters to Become Astrophysicists, Mathematicians, and Engineers
By Dr. Cristal Glangchai, author of VentureGirls: Raising Girls to Be Tomorrow’s Leaders I am an outlier in my professional life, but I shouldn’t be. As a woman engineer, I’m outnumbered by men 5:1. As the female CEO of a tech start-up, the discrepancy is even larger at 20:1. In fact, at present, women […]