Aug 29, 2023 | assertiveness, book, boundaries, boundary setting, relationships, sales
“If you let everyone pick your brain, your brain will be picked clean.” If you’re an expert in any subject, there’s a good chance that someone has, at some point, asked you for advice about whatever you do. Perhaps you’re an accountant with extensive knowledge of tax...
Aug 14, 2023 | personal development, relationships, resilience
It was late January of 2016 when I attended my women’s mastermind group against the advice of just about everyone. Two days earlier, I had been in a car accident, my poor little Toyota Corolla flipping 5 times before coming to a stop on the shoulder of the parkway....
Jan 3, 2020 | Business, goal setting, happiness at work, personal development, relationships
My refrigerator is a very scary place. Not like Ghostbusters scary with an evil dog/monster creature that will ultimately lead to possession. It’s not even a “Bachelor Fridge,” a barren wasteland with a case of beer and three-week old pizza languishing in the box. No,...
May 31, 2017 | divorce, relationships, resilience, resourcefulness
Comedian Dane Cook has this amazing line about how women stay in relationships for the strangest reasons. Here’s some paraphrasing: “Lisa, we’re concerned about you. He’s a (bleep). We want you to just go.” “Karen, it’s not...
May 24, 2017 | codependency, creativity, divorce, relationships, resilience
Funny story. Just a few weeks before I moved into my first rental (alone), I ended up standing in the candle aisle at Cost Plus: World Market, weeping openly while staring at some pillar candles. No, it wasn’t the price (I had a coupon!), it was the decision. I...
May 17, 2017 | codependency, divorce, relationships
You’ve heard of Empty Nest Syndrome: the transition period that parents go through when their children, the humans that they’ve been responsible for for the last 18 years, leave home to go to college, travel the globe, get married, work at the Quickie...
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