The fine wool suit that never quite fitted.
10 years ago in April 2010, almost a year after qualifying as a coach, I was still searching for my niche, so I could attract people to pay me for coaching. I felt completely out of my depth, not knowing how to find clients, and feeling like a fish out of water. I’d...
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The Art of Taking Up Space
During lockdown I’ve been taking my daughter out for driving practice. She’s doing really well now, and I can’t believe it was only a few short months ago that we drove round and round the local village car park (totally empty!) - stop, start, stop - trying to...
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What a sunflower can teach us about connection
Do you sometimes feel isolated or lonely, yet feel there’s nothing you can do about it, because the ‘normal’ connection solutions don’t apply to you? “If you’re feeling lonely, you should join a group or a class,” they say.“Invite a friend round for a meal” ….That’s...
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How to be more Resilient in turbulent times
At the time of writing (May 2020) here in Scotland we are still in lockdown due to the Coronavirus crisis. In these crazy times, we might be feeling a mixture of helplessness, frustration, disconnection and whole host of other ‘negative’ feelings. It’s important to...
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How to speak up, even when you feel inferior.
When you meet ‘successful’ people, do you feel inferior and assume they know more than you? Do you assume that what you say would be irrelevant or they’d think it was silly, so you stay quiet ? (and then give yourself a hard time later because of what you could have...
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How to stop arguing with yourself and return to inner calm.
Last week, still in lockdown and self-isolation, we had our food shopping delivered by a very helpful Asda driver (complete with gloves and full filter face mask). As he unloaded the shopping and we carried the bags inside, I noticed that as well as stuff we were...
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Why you need a service USP especially as a coach
What’s your service USP? There are many people who struggle to make a good living out of coaching or other ‘helping’ type business. One of the reasons for this is that talking about coaching can be quite intangible. If you talk about ‘holding space’, or making...
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10 principles of mindset freedom for business success.
In working with clients who want to make a difference in the world through their work, I help them with mindset freedom. The three challenges that I see over and over again are fear, self-sabotage and money-blocks. What these business owners really want instead are...
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Brainstorming Lunch – business networking with a difference in Gartmore!
Last week I had the brilliant idea to run a business networking event in Gartmore. I ran my day long 7 Steps to Success workshop and people got much more than specific help with their business. I noticed that people loved the genuine, down to earth connection. The...
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“I’m not good at connecting with people” – Busting beliefs.
“I’m not good at connecting with people” That was my belief growing up and into adult life. This made perfect sense to me. It explained why I’d never had a group of ‘real’ friends, and why I often felt awkward in social situations.When I first started my business,...
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Pay What You Can: An experiment in trust (and fear)
I may be mad but I’ve decided to experiment with (PWYC) Pay What You Can pricing on my workshops. I first learned about pay-what-you-can pricing from Tad Hargrave from Marketing for Hippies . He uses this model very successfully for his live marketing workshops. My...
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Going it alone in business? How to step out of your comfort zone.
I know several people who’ve recently left their comfortable corporate career, and are now going it alone; having decided that running their own business will be much more rewarding, they’re now going solo. They’ve ditched the support of the corporate machine, and...
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How to quit self-sabotage and fulfil your potential in business
Do you have a vision of where you want to get to in your business, yet feel there’s something blocking your path? It’s so frustrating when on the surface you know you have the skills, knowledge and experience to take your business to the next level, yet there’s always...
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The 3 Big Lessons I’ve Learned in Business
Boy, what a roller coaster 7 years I’ve had! Learning what works for me in business has been a really tough lesson, and one I’m still growing into! Leaving coach training in 2009 with no clue how to attract paying clients, I finally thought I’d cracked the code,...
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Lessons from hosting Marketing for Hippies 101 workshop at my home.
Two weeks ago I had the honour of hosting Tad Hargrave of Marketing for Hippies, to deliver his flagship daylong workshop at my home in a wee Scottish village! I travelled to attend his workshop in Edinburgh at the end of 2017, and I wrote about it here.I had such a...
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Something holding you back? How to get unstuck.
In this blog, I want to explore how to get unstuck from a certain kind of stuckness. This stuckness can be relentless, infuriating and downright exhausting. It feels like one leg is held tight in a concrete block, and we can’t move anywhere without huge effort. It...
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