Is it Method or Woo-Woo? Measurable Career Wins from Neuroplasticity Coaching
In my 1:1 coaching sessions, clients learn to ignite neuroplasticity and rewire patterns that once kept them stuck. In other words, they experience an internal shift that makes the external shifts easier to do.
If that sounds like Law of Attraction BS, “woo-woo,” or magic, I won’t deny the magic, because that’s how powerful the human mind truly is. But let’s not forget the tangible, verifiable, measurable wins.
What Getting Pushed Out of a Job Taught Me: Heartbreak and Hope Can Co-Exist
Sometimes the most painful career setbacks open the door to something better. From heartbreak and self-doubt to unexpected new beginnings, here's how the smallest thread of hope can lead you towards a future you never imagined.
How to Make Yourself Visible to Senior Leadership When You’re Allergic to Office Politics
Many of my clients are conscientious, hardworking, type A women in male-dominated industries. When they hear the word "visibility," they wince.
If that's you, good. Your instincts are sound. But before you fix your visibility, figure out which visibility problem you actually have.
How to Get Your Team to Do the Work They Keep Avoiding Without Micromanaging: A Sales Manager Case Study
If you've spent your career in a male-dominated industry, "not playing politics" often becomes code for staying quiet, staying small, and letting other people take credit for work you did.
I coach women who are done with that self-defeating loop. They want to lead in a way that's honest, that earns positive influence, and that doesn't cost them their integrity to get it. Here's a case study of what that looks like in action and words.
Kim Ji-Young, Born 1982: How to Be Gracefully Assertive Without Losing Your Mind
I teach my coaching clients a concept called Graceful Assertiveness. It requires extending an ocean of grace back to ourselves as we do the courageous work of undoing generations of conditioning. Conditioning that taught women to feel like, and accept being treated like, and paid like second-class citizens.
Anticipating Pushback? How to Turn Negotiation Objections Into Your Best Negotiation Move
Maybe you've never negotiated for yourself before in your career. You've seen how things work behind the scenes, so your gut says that whatever you ask for, they'll object to it anyway. Why bother risking "no," when you've already got your plate full?
Sometimes when I coach my clients through their own objections like the above, I'm surprised by their ingenuity, resourcefulness, and outcomes.
Let me tell you about one of my clients, Nadine.
How Business Owners Handle Salary Doubt: When One Comment Makes You Question Your Decision
"I used to get paid more somewhere else." That was the sentence. Almost an afterthought, dropped near the end of an offer negotiation that had gone beautifully. And it was enough to make my client spiral in doubt. Here’s the coaching I gave her.
What It’s Really Like to Work With an Executive Coach (A Tech Leader’s Honest Account)
If you’ve been curious about executive coaching but have hesitated because you’re not sure what it entails or whether it would help you, here's what former client SJ Crawford shared on LinkedIn about working with me 1:1.
Why Networking Feels Fake, and How to Grow Your Career Without Faking It: A 5-Step Guide
When someone tells you the next step in your career is “networking,” something in you tightens. It feels foreign. Transactional. A little inauthentic.
That discomfort is a sign you’ve been handed the wrong definition of networking, and it’s conflicting against your integrity.
Here are five steps I suggest to my well-meaning introverted clients who want to grow their careers without being schmooze-y.
How Sarah-Neel and Grace Left the Rat Race, Claimed Their Voices, and Earned More
Here are the stories of how two of my clients built the connections and relationships that blew the door open to what came next. In the process, they became their own bosses, grew their self-advocacy skills, and made more money than the systems they left ever imagined for them.
From Underpaid to Executive Coach: How I Became My Own Boss
When women leave toxic workplaces or step out of roles that chronically undervalue them, it's saying: I will hold the remote to my own career, and I will use it. You have that remote too. The question is, what do you want to do with it?
Stop Waiting for Feedback: Master Feed-Forward Instead
In the C-Suite, you can’t sit back and hope your direct reports have the courage to critique you to your face. You have to lead the narrative.
Don't wait for your team to tell you how you're doing. Tell your team where the organization is going, and invite them to build that future with you.
How to Negotiate Without Becoming a Jerk: The 3 Skills I Teach My Clients
When people hear “negotiation,” they often picture something adversarial: pounding the table, making threats, trying to “win” at all costs. That’s not how I negotiate, and it’s certainly not how I teach my clients to negotiate.
The women I work with are skilled, thoughtful, and allergic to office politics. They don’t want to turn into jerks to get what they want. They want their income and impact to grow without drama.
That’s where relational negotiation comes in.
50% Raise, Self-Advocacy, and Informational Interviews with Sarah-Neel Smith, PhD and Jamie Lee
My client Sarah-Neel’s results:
✅ Pivot 1: Successfully transitioned from Academia to Private Investigations with a 7% salary increase.
✅ Pivot 2: Leveraged her momentum into a 50% pay increase in Philanthropy.