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How Well Are You Dancing With Fear and Resistance?

D “Dance with Fear. Dance with done. Dance with resistance. Dance with each other. Dance with Art.” I love to Dance! Even when I don’t get it “right”. There is such freedom in dancing to your own funky beat!! Finding the freedom around your fears can be a little more challenging though. Especially when they’re doing their best to keep you small, and are holding you back from achieving your full capacity as a leader. Dancing with your fears though is just that, a dance.

Primary topic: Executive Coach and Executive Coaching
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An Open Letter To Women of the World…

As a woman, you may have experienced at least once or twice in your life, someone who has tried to make you feel small and unworthy, as if you didn’t belong or were an outsider, just because you were a woman. Does this sound familiar? I know it’s happened to me, and a lot of other women on more than one occasion. You would think in this day and age, we would have moved beyond petty behaviors such as this. Sadly though, if you turn on the news you see it still happening around the world in many ways, shapes and forms.

Primary topic: Executive Coach and Executive Coaching
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Simple Steps to Success: How to Own Your Zone and Unleash Your Genius

Have you ever found yourself asking: “How do I work Smarter? Not Harder??? Wishing you had 30 hours in the day to get everything on your to do list done? Wondering how you can grow your business without working 80 hours a week? Or just plain flabbergasted questioning what needs to change so you can work more efficiently and effectively?! When you get the feeling that you’re pushing rocks up hill, spinning your wheels and not reaching your goals, it’s a good time to pause and see what’s working, and more importantly, what’s NOT working to grow your business.

Primary topic: Executive Coach and Executive Coaching
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The Neuroscience of Success: 3 Mistakes To Avoid As A Leader

As a leader of your organization or your team – you set the course, the tone and the motivation levels of the people you’re leading. In order to do this, it requires that you have a level of clarity within yourself. Research shows us that Emotional Intelligence is key predictor of success. Unfortunately, it also shows that the higher leaders rise in the ranks, the lower the EQ they seem to have! Don’t become a statistic. Here are 3 common mistakes made by leaders that you can easily avoid by increasing your Emotional Intelligence.

Primary topic: Executive Coach and Executive Coaching
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Jedi Master Secrets: How to be mindful of your energy signature

What’s your Energy Signature? Have you ever walked into a room and felt the mood of the room before anyone even said anything? You know that feeling… Whether you walked into a room with your loved one, or into a conference room full of colleagues – you can sense the energy of the room can’t you? You Know when your spouse or partner is upset, before they even open their mouth and say a word. Don’t you? Or when you walk into an important meeting – you can sense the excitement or the impending bad news. This is because we’re all big bundles of energy walking around.

Primary topic: Executive Coach and Executive Coaching
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10 Steps for Tuning In and Turning Up Your Success

What’s the difference betwee Wanting and Having? Let’s make an important distinction. You see, there is a big difference between “Wanting” and “Having” something. Wanting: means lacking or absent. Deficient in some part, thing or aspect. Having: means to possess, to hold, to get, to receive, to experience. You can have one OR the other, but not both at the same time with any particular object of your desire. You either have it or you don’t. So what does this have to do with creating your success?

Primary topic: Executive Coach and Executive Coaching
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32 Reasons to Operate From Your Compelling WHY

What gets you out of bed in the morning? What motivates you to go to work every day – despite the challenges, despite the stress, despite all the other factors that come with being a teacher? There might be lots of reasons why you Wouldn’t want to be a teacher… - Long hours - Low pay - Screaming kids - Difficult parents Just to name a few… but you do get out of bed and you do go to work every day to be of service to those children. So what is it that motivates you to do this difficult work? What’s your Compelling WHY?

Primary topic: Executive Coach and Executive Coaching
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Short Term Action Planning

Sometimes, it's feast or famine with business. So to help you stay on top of your game it's important to have your short term goals defined to keep you focused and on track. The more you can focus on the actions you need to take, the more likely you will reach your vision and your goals. Energy is key – you must gain and maintain momentum. Your actions must be immediate and aligned with your core values and passions. Use your ideal day activity to identify a 1-year vision.

Primary topic: Executive Coach and Executive Coaching
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How To Reclaim Your Brain from the Walking Dead

Are you going out as a Zombie for Halloween? As a busy woman, executive or business owner –you’re probably a pretty good plate spinner or whirling dervish, as you get pulled in multiple directions on any given day to fulfill your duties as boss, manager, mom, cat herder, taxi driver, friend, lover, confident, and a whole lot more. It’s exhausting isn’t it? And, if you’re not careful, if the plate spinning goes on too long,

Primary topic: Executive Coach and Executive Coaching
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9 Ways to Improve Your Presence and Boost Your EQ

Did you know that only 7% of our communication comes through speaking? The rest of communication comprehension relies on visual and energetic cues such as eye contact, facial expressions, body language, posture, touch and movement. With this in mind, it’s key to be conscious of what you’re communicating on ALL levels. How you show up in the first minute of meeting someone new, sets the stage for all your future interactions with this person. Good, bad, or otherwise… This takes raising your emotional intelligence through greater self-awareness. Is your body language giving you away?r

Primary topic: Executive Coach and Executive Coaching
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By Michele MolitorRecently published1 topic

Getting from Here to There – Leaping into Happiness

“When you find the thing that makes your heart sing, do more of that. We need more radiant hearts singing their songs of joy, passion and purpose.” #michelemolitor My Wake-up Call I woke up in a cold sweat. Again. And it was the third time this week. I didn’t think I could take another stressed out, sleepless night, when the light bulb suddenly came on… I realized that I didn’t give a crap about building large, corporate websites. Too much stress. Not enough joy. But what was I supposed to do – quit my job??

Primary topic: Executive Coach and Executive Coaching
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Getting out of the Box: 7 Tips for Overcoming Business Mistakes

No one has the perfect business strategy for starting a business without encountering a certain number of challenges and outright failures. If you’re new to being an entrepreneur (or have even been one for years) know that there are always going to be challenges that arise, mistakes that you’ll make and areas in which you will even FAIL. YUP, I said it. You might fail. And, if you do, then what? What can you do to handle and rise above you business mistakes and failures? Here are 7 helpful tips to keep you moving forward in your business, even when you feel stuck in a box.

Primary topic: Executive Coach and Executive Coaching
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10 Keys to Business Growth in a Shifting Economic Landscape…

Today’s economic landscape has been a bit unsteady to say the least. We’ve all heard about it and certainly have seen the effects of it on our bottom line. No matter if you’re a CEO, manager or a one-man-band business owner, today’s economy has sent tremors through us all in different ways. Here are some time tested keys to growth to help you stay focused and moving forward in a positive direction.

Primary topic: Executive Coach and Executive Coaching
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10 Marketing Strategies to Grow Your Business

The following tips and strategies are intended to help you grow your business more effortlessly and easily by using the tools that you already have at hand in a more expanded way. To help you spend more time working ON your business instead of being run BY your business. Giving you more time ...

Primary topic: Executive Coach and Executive Coaching
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Points to Ponder for Growing Your Business

Tired of working for somebody else and ready to try your hand being a business owner? Or are you an accidental entrepreneur that has already leapt into business for yourself? Well, You’re not alone! Starting and running your own successful business is one of the most rewarding, exciting and nerve-racking adventures you will set out on. It has its joys and it certainly has its challenges, all of which will push you outside your comfort zone, spur your creative thinking and give you a few more gray hairs!

Primary topic: Executive Coach and Executive Coaching
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How to Build Trust: 12 Keys to Effective Leadership

What does it feel like when you really trust someone? There is a sense of calm. Of peace. A Knowing if you will. It’s the feeling you get when you know that someone has your back. Trust is something that is earned. Earned day after day through your consistent behaviors, words, actions and deeds. It gets at the heart of our need as human beings to feel SAFE. Conversely, when lack of trust is present, how does that feel? There is always a question mark in the back of your mind. An uneasy feeling, A lack of safety,

Primary topic: Executive Coach and Executive Coaching
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3 Keys for Building Your Sustainable Business From the Inside Out

Question: What had you go into business for yourself? Was it the money? The hours? The flexibility? The freedom of carving your own path? What had you make the leap into being an entrepreneur? As an executive coach, I most often hear from folks just like you, who want to bust out of the corporate grind, be their own boss and do meaningful work that speaks to their passions and expertise. Stepping out of your comfort zone and starting your own gig takes courage, tenacity and loads of perseverance!

Primary topic: Executive Coach and Executive Coaching
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5 Keys to Unlocking Your Leadership – Part 2 of 6

This is the 2nd post in my series to give you the Keys to Unlocking Your Power and Presence as a Woman Leader. What’s needed to create better work-life balance and well-being so you can shine more brightly? Here is step one that you need to know in order to expand your power and presence as a leader:

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5 Keys to Unlocking Your Leadership Part 3 of 6

This is the 3rd post in my series to give you the Keys to Unlocking Your Power and Presence as a Woman Leader. What’s needed to create better work-life balance and well-being so you can shine more brightly? Here is the second step you need to know in order to expand your power and presence as a leader: Step 2: Embrace Your Fears to Discover Your Passions.

Primary topic: Executive Coach and Executive Coaching
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By Michele MolitorRecently published1 topic

Do What You Love – Love What You Do

It was a series of challenging events (to say the least) and an unexpected “course correction” in my role as creative director back at the height of the dot com days in Silicon Valley, that left me bewildered, dazed and befuddled as to what was my next career step needed to be. Stressed out to the max, I thought “I can’t do this anymore but what do I do instead?”

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5 Keys to Unlocking Your Leadership – Part 1of 6

In today’s high tech and global economy, mastering your craft isn’t enough to guarantee success. Top female corporate leaders are very good at what they do. But, there is something more that they do to stand out. The intangibles make them shine. It’s their power and presence that radiates from within that gets your attention and compels you to lean in.

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Why Are Your Values So Important To Job Satisfaction?

You’ve probably seen the “corporate values” posted on the wall somewhere of the headquarters of an organization, or on their website perhaps. You might actually read them and think to yourself, those are nice. It might even give you a bit of a warm-n-fuzzy feel about the work that company is doing in the world. That’s great for the customers. But what does that actually mean to the employees? How do those values actually translate into what they are doing on any given day, and why should they care??

Primary topic: Executive Coach and Executive Coaching
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Life Beyond the Edge of Your Comfort Zone: 4 keys for adapting to change

Like the wind and the tides, energy is shifting and moving all of the time. The sun rotates, planets spin, stars are being born and dying as the Universe itself hurls through space at incomprehensible speeds. At a micro level, we’re constantly shifting and changing too. We’re generating new cells every day. Various parts of our body are being created anew as other parts die off and are replaced. You are constantly in a state of shifting and moving to something new. You can’t escape it. So, if change is such a constant in life, then why are we so uncomfortable with it?

Primary topic: Executive Coach and Executive Coaching
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