Category: Empowerment

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Celebrating the Strength of Meaningful Connection This Women’s History Month

This year, I’m going to celebrate Women’s History Month by nourishing myself – feeding my soul. I’m going to give myself the luxury of what I experienced during the Women’s Leadership Collaborative by creating at least three opportunities to celebrate a woman I know or meet. I’m going to allow the time and space for us to share our stories and unhurriedly explore what’s going beneath our headlines and subtitles.

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Even in Prison, Nelson Mandela was Free. Are You?

As we continue to honor Black History Month – a celebration of liberation, freedom and achievement – how do you define liberty and freedom? Are they the same or different? In this country, we all have liberty – basic legal rights – but fewer of us are really free.

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Live As If Every Day Is Valentine’s Day

To celebrate love and honor our tender hearts primarily, one a day a year is not enough. It creates the illusion that love is scarce and perpetuates the story that a certain kind of love – romantic love – is better, more desirable, than other kinds of love.

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Know That You Are Free: What Harriet Tubman Is Still Teaching Us Today

Harriet Tubman was not defined by who others thought she was or what society said she was. She decided who she was. She didn’t let circumstances or other people’s fears define her life. She decided who she was and she decided that she was free.

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Guest Blog: Message to Fellow Parents – I Used To Be Dirt. Now I’m Beach Sand.

Guest Blogger Jo Ann Dearden shares important pivot points – good and bad – that have marked her relationship with her daughter. Many parents of teenagers and young adults will recognize this story.

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Guest Blog: 9 Steps To Financial Fitness in 2011

As many of us do when facing a new year, we make resolutions to better our lives in some manner. As it seems many of these resolutions revolve around getting in shape I thought, in the spirit shedding some excess, I’d discuss some strategies for losing a couple of notches on your financial belt.

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5 Tips for Overcoming the LIES™ That Make You Break Your New Year’s Resolution

Year after year, many people resolve to fix the same old problem. Why? What gets in the way of achieving goals, satisfying your resolution and making lasting change? Labels, Illusions, Excuses and Stories or LIES™ – limiting thoughts, beliefs and feelings that determine the range of choices you believe you have.

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Do You Reflect Before You Make A Resolution?

…before you set about working on your 2011 New Year’s Resolutions, stop for a moment. Reflect on your experience of 2010 and acknowledge what you accomplished.

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How to Avoid Burning Out This Holiday Season

Our activity level inevitably ramps up when the holiday season arrives. Yet, you can still enjoy the spirit of the season to the fullest without burning the Christmas lights at both ends.  Your ideas of what you should and shouldn’t do, what you must do, who you can’t say “No” to will lead you down […]

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Guest Blog: A 13-Year-Old’s Journey from Cancer to Grace

Melinda Marchiano is an astounding young lady who made the conscious choice not to succumb to the LIES™ that bring so many down when faced with a devastating cancer diagnosis. We are grateful that she chose to share her story of how she kept cancer’s LIES from limiting her during a time when no one would have blamed her for taking a major time out.

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“LIES That Limit: Uncover the Truth of Who You Really Are” Is Now Available!

I’m delighted to share great news with you. LIES That Limit:  Uncover the Truth of Who You Really Are is now available for purchase at LiesThatLimit.com and on Amazon! That’s right!  LIES That Limit is not only a blog, it’s a book that I hope you and millions of others will buy, read and use […]

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5 Tips for Handling Family Dysfunction At Holiday Gatherings

Any time we’re back in a familiar setting – like celebrating holidays with our families or in-laws – we tend to react in familiar ways.  We have a well-rehearsed, ingrained pattern of behavior we engage in, and an equally well-honed set of responses to those around us.   When the pattern is constructive, respectful and loving, […]

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How to Turn “No I Can’t” Into “Yes I Can!”

Way too often, we talk ourselves into the living with limits – limits that are self-created and unnecessarily perpetuated.  A recent conversation with a couple I’ve known for a very long time brought this to mind. Intellectually gifted, their son applied to and was accepted into a prestigious private high school – the school of […]

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Living Your Purpose: A Real Life Example

Guest Blogger Kyle Ruffin invites us to take inspiration from a family friend who’s passion has landed him national attention.  At 72, living his purpose keeps him going strong. Since I was 10, I’ve known my father’s best friend Ralph Hunter and in many ways, he has been like family.  He has always enjoyed life […]

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Guest Blog: You’ve Planned the Financial Work, Now It’s Time to Work the Plan

Guest Blogger Steven Girard has laid out outstanding first steps toward taking control of your finances, your dreams and life goals.  Now, in this final installment, he shows you how to begin the actual work.  Don’t worry…you’re up for it and your dreams are worth it! In the last few weeks, you have taken the […]

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Guest Blog: Your Financial Reality Check

You’re walking a wonderful new path of financial self-awareness and responsibility. You’ve taken two very important steps on this journey. Guest Blogger Steven Girard is back with the next steps that will empower you with a new perspective on reaching your goals.

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