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?
How Not to Lose It When You’re Cut Off in Meetings: A 60-Second Reset
You’ve been cut off in a meeting yet again. Frustration rises and, before you know it, you’re spiraling because other people didn’t behave the way they should.
If that sounds familiar, please know this isn’t a sign you need to work harder. You just need to regain an objective perspective.
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.
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.
Fear Brain to Breakthrough: My Humanistic NLP Certification
My brain had all kinds of fear-based objections as I prepared for a nine-day training with the one and only John Overdurf. But I’m a coach, and I know a thing or two about dealing with the fear brain… so I did the work.
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.
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.
Four Salary Negotiation Tips for High Achievers With Impostor Syndrome
If you're technically excellent, hold yourself to a high standard, and feel a low hum of guilt about wanting more (because a bigger career might disappoint the people you're currently keeping happy) this one's for you.
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?
Don’t Just Take the Package: A Guide to Exit Negotiations
Navigating an exit isn't just a corporate transaction—it’s a declaration of your sovereignty. Whether you are planning a major career transition, looking to turn a toxic situation into an opportunity, or preparing to become your own boss, you deserve a space to strategize your exit safely and authentically.
How to Beat the Negotiation Double Standard: Three Steps for Women and Minorities
Winning in an unequal system simply requires a different, more nuanced kind of effort. If you are a woman or a minority preparing for a pay negotiation, here are three strategic pivots to make.
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.
Gaslighting, Racism, and Leadership: A Coaching Perspective for POC Executives
🤨 How can POC leaders NOT gaslight ourselves navigating the predominantly white world? This was the question a client and I grappled with earlier today. She — a minority executive — told me about the hyper vigilance she feels at work.
How to Negotiate with a Billionaire: Lessons from an 8X Salary Offer
In the best of worlds, she could create abundance even without the billionaire. She could found a company, grow it, and guide it to a successful exit event that generates significant returns for herself and her shareholders.
So together, we crafted a negotiation script that anchored her starting salary above the stated range. We aimed for 4X her current pay.
Throwback: When I didn't know how to advocate for myself
The day I found out I was underpaid from reading an industry newsletter with salary benchmarks, it dawned on me like a gut punch:
I DIDN’T KNOW HOW TO ADVOCATE FOR MYSELF.