Building a Strong Coaching Practice

Starting and building a coaching practice takes time. This article is how I've done it in 3 different states, and about to do it again in my new hometown of Orlando!

Words That Inspire - PEACE

A motivational newsletter that hightlights a word, it's relevance to you and asks questions on how to enhance your professional and personal lives, all in 45 seconds.

Coaching: How to Have a Mentor for Your Life

Someone to help you get “unstuck.” So many times, we get stuck in doing the same things over and over and expecting different results. A good counselor/coach can show you many other options for getting what you want in life. Remember, “if you keep doing what you have always done, you’ll keep on getting what you have always gotten.”

Why Therapy Fails Sometimes

I saw a couple for marriage counseling this week, and when I asked them if they had ever seen anyone else for counseling they said they had worked with two other therapists. They had seen one therapist on and off a few years back. They had seen the other one only a few times. They couldn’t even remember her name. I asked what they had gotten from counseling, and much to my chagrin, came a far too typical response: “Nothing.” Why doesn’t therapy make an impact? Why do people who see a counselor week after week continue to be bogged down with the problems they initially came in with?

What is a Personal Life Coach?

A personal life coach demystifies one of the newest and fastest-growing professions in the U.S., and one that increasing numbers of people are using to make real life changes.

Failure or Tempory Defeat You Decide

This article is about having a winners mindset, getting up after your down, brushing yourself off & keep fighting to achieve your goal no matter what it takes.

Coaching Book Summary: The Coach

This coaching book will provide some insight to what good leadership and coaching should look like.

Life Coach - Excuse Me?

What is a life coach, anyway? I asked that question of my friend, Elaine, who had just completed her training at Coach Institute. She told me, “Therapy is about the past. Life Coaching is about the future.” Okay, that helps some...

The Power of Witnessing and Segment Intending

I love it when I come across something in reading that makes an immediate and significant contribution to my life. And I particularly love it when I run across two such things that appear to work synergistically. That's what happened this week, a particularly challenging week for me, in large part because my daughter, Amber, came down with the chicken pox.

Marketing On Purpose With Passion And Play

In a recent class on how to build your business on purpose with passion and play, I offered the following simple definition for coaches for Marketing: Sharing and engaging people in a possibility for their lives that inspires them to take action with an intention to close the gap that exists between where they currently are and the possibility they see for life.

Coach Less Earn More: 5 Ways to Launch a Group Coaching Program That Sizzles

One-to-one coaching is rewarding, but it's also exhausting, time consuming and often leaves you scrambling to find additional clients just to keep your pipeline full. Many coaches are now realizing that one-to-one coaching isn't a profitable way to grow a coaching business. In this article, you'll discover how group coaching can help you to grow your coaching business and the 5 elements you need to craft one that sizzles.

Invest Five Minutes a Day to Survive!

Take a look at what happened in New Orleans. From this horrible event there are important lessons to be learned. The stark truth is there are times where we can not rely on anyone but ourselves to survive. Using the Power of the mind, I can show you how to train your mind to survive by investing just five minutes a day!

Coaching Celebrities

Coaching celebrities requires being flexible, available and not incredibly demanding on their time. On the flip side, you can ask a lot of them and they'll respond with respect. It's a fun gig if you can get it..