For Women in Male-Dominated Industries: How to Grow Your Influence Without Burning Out
You don’t want just any kind of influence, but strategic influence because you like to be on purpose, and you have milestones to achieve that involve others.
What if the path to more strategic influence isn’t another leadership book, yet another how-to guide, or more efforting to prove yourself, pedaling hard when you’re already running on fumes?
Why Doubt Shows Up Like a Broken Record When You Over-Work: What the Science Says
That nagging voice of self-doubt can drive you to overwork, overthink, and overlook your own value. Discover what's happening in your brain when doubt takes over, and three simple neuroscience-informed techniques to calm your nervous system and regain perspective.
Is It Scary? How Conversational Hypnosis Works in Coaching
Conversational hypnosis isn't about mind control. It's about working with your brain's natural processes to unlock new perspectives, build confidence, and make choices that feel authentically yours. Discover how neuroscience-informed coaching helps you become more of who you already are.
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.
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.
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.
Locus of Control: Who’s Holding the Remote to Your Career?
No one is coming to crown you. You put the tiara on.
When you bring the locus of control back inside, you’re not denying the reality of bias or structural barriers.
You hold the remote. You choose your next move. You vote—for yourself, with your tribe, and, when needed, with your feet.
That’s what sovereignty looks like in your career.
Why Women Are Already Great Negotiators (Even If You Don’t Feel Like One Yet)
Women sometimes tell me, “But I don’t know how to negotiate for myself,” as if it’s a fact as obvious as the sky.
I don’t buy that for a second.
As a coach who’s helped women earn over $3 million and counting in additional compensation—the issue is not that women are somehow inherently inferior at negotiation.
The real truth is that we’re operating in systems that penalize us for using negotiation skills, and we’ve been socialized to doubt what we already do brilliantly.
How Tiara Syndrome is Sabotaging Your Career and How to Fix It
Paradoxically, when you bring this calm, sovereign confidence to the table, you won’t come off as arrogant. Why?
Because you’re showing them that the leader they’ve been looking for is already standing right in front of them. You’re saving them recruitment fees, reducing their mental load, and bringing clarity to the conversation.
Your self-advocacy becomes an act of service.
What Prom Rejection Taught Me About Career Negotiations
When I was an 18-year-old high school senior and a chronically stressed school newspaper editor, I decided that "the ask" should not be a male-only privilege.
I was an introvert, but I was also an advocate.
Proving Yourself is Pretty Poison for the High-Achiever
In a recent coaching session, a client—a Senior Director in healthcare—shared that she felt she needed to "prove herself" to secure her next promotion.
As a language nerd, I find idioms fun, but as a highly-sensitive soul, I also know firsthand the dangers of internalizing them wholesale.
When the Promotion Goalpost Keeps Moving for Women of Color
Women of color face systemic bias at work when promotion goalposts keep moving and ‘emotional labor’ becomes the excuse. In this post, I share how these patterns show up, why they’re unjust, and a free 2-minute EFT tapping guide to process anger, stress, and exhaustion — so you can reclaim power, clarity, and momentum in your career.
A Quiet Rebellion Against Impostor Syndrome
If, as you go to engage the room, anxiety and doubt rise in your chest... It’s easy to mistake your uniqueness as something to be fixed or tucked away—like a stained shirt sleeve you’re embarrassed to be wearing.
When your mind floods with doubt, and you wonder if you’re too much—or not enough—here’s the truth you’ve temporarily lost sight of:
Overachievers: You Might Want to Read This Twice
You’re allowed to feel both proud and petrified. Brave and unsure.
You don’t have to resolve that tension. You get to be real inside it. That’s one of the most honest, human things you can do.
How to Talk to a Difficult Boss (Who Just Won't Listen)
My client, Kasvi, came into our session feeling frustrated, angry, and rejected.
Her boss had shut down a well-intentioned suggestion for improving team output—something Kasvi offered in good faith to support the team’s performance.
But instead of openness, she hit a wall: “That’s my problem to fix,” said the boss tersely. (Translation: “Stay off my turf.”)
DEMO: EFT for When Your Manager's Emotional Outburst Annoys You
Ever get a Slack (or Teams) message so harshly worded it makes you want to throw your laptop out the window?
Yeah, my client did too.
And that frustration? It can stick, mess with your focus, confidence, and even how you show up in that next 1:1 — unless you have a scientifically proven way to clear it.
Salary Negotiation: What to Do When the Offer Is Lower Than Your Current Pay
Armed with confidence-boosting tools, my client aced the technical and behavioral interviews. When it became clear an offer was on the table, she reached out to me: "How should I negotiate this?" Here's how we approached it with three key steps…
How to Raise Millions Without Burning Out
🦄 Behind the myth of a unicorn startup is burnout.
👉 But burning out doesn’t have to be your destiny when you are wizened to a few truths.
Here’s what went down in coaching today…
3 Steps to Mitigate Misery: Micromanagers and Mediocre Teams
My client received an incomplete email about a time-sensitive project from one of her direct reports. Her response requesting the missing information was met with a terse and defensive reply.
Moments like these have her feeling tension behind her eyes and wondering:
Why is my team so mediocre?
Is it me? Am I doing something wrong?
Can I keep growing my career if I struggle with people like this?
{REPLAY} Confidence Lab: Self-Directed Neuroplasticity Tools
In the interactive workshop, I walk volunteers through exactly how to do peripheral vision and bilateral stimulation, two self-directed neuroplasticity tools I learned from my mentor Melissa Tiers, author of the Anti-Anxiety Toolkit. In the book, Melissa states she intends to get the reader to learn these rapid techniques to rewire the brain FAST and, within minutes, experience a palpable shift in their bodies. Which is precisely what we did in Confidence Lab.