5 Ways It’s Hard And What To Do Instead — Conventional wisdom says that an unemployed person should spend 40 hours a week on their job search. While that may be mathematically correct — job searching remains a numbers game — spending that amount of time looking for a new job can be emotionally challenging. Job hunting under any circumstances…

And How To Find The Right One For You — These days you can find a coach to provide support and guidance for anything from plant care to punctuation. But coaching’s origins are based in the corporate world, designed to help employees, leaders in particular, grow the skills they need to succeed. Executive, career, and business coaches remain among the…

5 Goals for keeping It together when quitting isn’t an option — If it were up to me, every dissatisfied employee would be able to tell their boss it wasn’t working anymore and get paid to leave. After all, there are added costs for everyone when disengaged workers stay too long. Then, magically, a perfect new job would appear. Unfortunately, my promotion…

Making the best of getting out of a bad situation — You’ve decided to leave your job. Congratulations! Now it’s time to face the major undertaking of finding a new one. Job hunting isn’t much fun to start with, and when you’re trying to get out of a bad situation, a negative point of view can make it even harder. But…

Change the way you approach what needs to be done — The truth is, there will always be something else to do. This was never more real for me than at the start of the pandemic, when I found myself playing the role of remote elementary school supervisor and single mom to two little guys, and fledgling small business owner (not…

And how to confidently answer questions when you’re not quite sure what to say — The job interview process is truly one of the strangest rituals we’ve agreed to as a society. But until someone more influential than me turns it on its head, we’re stuck with trying to be universally appealing while being true to ourselves while wearing clothes we only ever wear during…

How letting go of “normal” gets tricky but does wonders — I am a child of the 80s, which means that years of Saturday morning cartoons left an indelible mental impression of the classic scenario where a mustachioed villain ties a damsel in distress to a track only for her to be rescued by the hero just before she’s struck by…

Mindset shifts you won’t find in most leadership training — You may have had this experience: You started working at a corporate job as an individual contributor on a team. After years of getting “exceeds expectations” on your performance reviews, you’re finally promoted to manage a team of your own. “Finally!” you think, as you prepare for more responsibility, respect…

Try these exercises to gain a better understanding of the autistic experience — My oldest child is diagnosed autistic, I am late-identified autistic, and my youngest is coded for social communication challenges at school. I’m four years into advocating for my kids at school and one year into my own self-actualization journey, and I’ve learned that even when you are living an autistic…