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#132 Six Guideposts on Families and Expectations
No matter how old your children are, we sometimes adopt expectations around how they behave, how we want them turn out, and how they respect us and others. That is human. We feel responsible for shaping them. Weighing...
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#131 Four Steps to De-escalate the Drama from Mean People
It happens a lot at work and in life. You get drawn into a dispute where after a few minutes you find yourself defending a position you never took. Or people come to you to mediate a situation that does not warrant...
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#130 Five Steps to Shake the Need to Prove Yourself
Most achievers got to the levels they are in their careers because they are hard workers - staying late, outperforming others, getting things done, taking risks and being the trusted go-to person. At a certain level...
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#133 Ten Life Lessons I Learned from My Dog Bailey
Throughout my life I have had 11 dogs. I’ve had cats too and I’ll likely do a podcast about the life lessons from cats which are quite different from those learned from dogs, but this episode is about the life lessons...
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#128 Your Special Place and Manifesting What You Want
In this episode we discuss the value of dedicating a special place for yourself in your home, how to do it, what you will do there and how this helps you to stay with your commitments to what you want in your life....
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#127 How to Start a Daycare: Corporate America
Recently, I started making a list of some of the issues my clients have complained about over the years and I realized how immature corporate America often behaves. The following is a parody of what is sometimes our...
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#125 10 Questions that Make End of Life Issues Revitalize Your Daily Living
Have you ever thought that thinking about death could make your life more meaningful and help you to reconcile a lot of old stuff that holds you back? In this episode we explore the difficult emotions around death –...
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#126 Banishing Mommy Guilt
Being a mom is hard enough without the guilt society places on us. You're expected to keep a nice home, and be a great mom, and hold a leadership role at work. It's a lot. Then, not only does our culture tell you...
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#80 Mindful Holiday Tips for Dealing with Stress, Difficult Relatives, Grief and the New Year Revisited
The holidays bring a sense of rebirth, joy and gratitude. Sometimes they also bring stress too. In this episode we talk about how to manage yourself, set clear boundaries, what to do with expectations and how to...
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#124 11 Signs Your Employees Are Yawning
According to Gallup’s State of the American Workplace Report the majority of workers are not engaged or are actively disengaged. The old command-and-control style of leadership does not work today. In this episode you...
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#123 A Portuguese Adventure – Six Reasons Why and Why Not to Travel
Just last night I returned from a 16 day Portuguese vacation to Lisbon and The Algarve during which I made time to notice some important aspects of why travel does and does not work for people. Over the years, my...
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#122 How You Know If You Have Executive Presence
When you walk into a room you can tell immediately who the strong and respected leaders are by the way they carry themselves, by the people around them, by the way the speak and by their body language. In this episode...
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