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I’m Selling Plenty but Can’t Keep Up: Scaling Your Business

I had a familiar conversation with an entrepreneur who approached me about business coaching yesterday. “Getting business isn’t the problem. Keeping up with it is! I’m always working!” Another day, the same problem. Like many of my clients, this lady was a hustler, always working, had plenty of clients, yet hadn’t even broken six figures yet. Hitting the […]

“I Don’t Wanna” is a Valid Excuse

“Give me four sets of ten, and then you’re done,” said Jeremy, my trainer. “Is ‘I don’t wanna’ a valid excuse?” I quipped. “Sure. If you can live with yourself,” came the quick reply. I did the sets. The truth of the matter is while I did not want to do those last few exercises, I wanted the results. […]

When to Hire a Coach and When to Take a Course

We offer both courses and coaching, and courses are usually significantly cheaper than hiring a decent private coach. You can learn virtually anything from our training partners Udemy and Ed2Go. So why hire a coach when you can learn virtually anything by taking a course? Here’s a quick guide to when you should hire a […]

People Don’t Like it if You Challenge Their Mindsets

I wrote about using credit cards the other day and got a lot of negative feedback. People or experience had convinced many that Credit Cards = Bad. Period. At one point, I thought that way too, so I understand their position, but today, I would have to disagree in certain instances. Like most things in life, it […]

How to Escape Golden Handcuffs: Changing Careers in Mid-Life

Many of my clients come to me with the “golden handcuffs” dilemma. They are in a highly paid position with fantastic benefits, yet don’t particularly like their job. Not yet at the point where they can afford to retire, they’re in golden handcuffs created from their success. What do you do if you’re in that […]

Is Your Mindset About Money Holding You Back?

The most valuable painting in the world, The Mona Lisa, was valued at 100 million dollars back in 1962. In today’s dollars, that’s nearly a billion dollars. While they’ve put a value on it for insurance purposes, it’s not for sale. It’s priceless. It’s a neat painting, but honestly, I’d have a tough time parting […]

Coaching a homeless man - man holding a sign saying I need weed

Life Coaching is NOT a Substitute for a Medical Professional

It’s frustrating sometimes to see the term life coach used interchangeably with a psychiatrist or other medical professional. I listened to a coach talk about trying to help a homeless guy awhile back and had to work hard not to laugh as he told his story. The coach, let’s call him Jeff, decided he was […]

Include This Investment in Your Retirement Plan

As a former bank director, I can name off the most common investments that everyone thinks of off the top of my head. Index funds, mutual funds, options, individual stocks, bonds, money market accounts, rentals, REITs, short & long term treasury bonds, CDs, ETFs…we could be here awhile. The Investment Many Miss But there’s one […]

How Sculpting is like Coaching

I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free. -Michelangelo, famous Italian sculptor Coaching, managing, or mentoring is much like carving a statue. As a coach, your job is not so much as to tell someone what to do as it is to reveal the beauty which is already there. […]

Are You Putting Names Before Numbers?

One of the themes of our high school youth group this year is “Names before numbers.” What that means is we as leaders want to know each individual in the program by name rather than focusing primarily on getting more people into the program. It is nearly impossible for one person to remember every name […]

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