As I approach my 10 year business anniversary, I reflect on how much my understanding of my own job has changed since the beginning. I used to believe that basic coaching was enough to get someone unstuck — and it was for a lot of people! But over the years…

Unfortunately, feeling trapped, stuck, desperate, scared, or hopeless, among other things, is not uncommon to the entrepreneur experience. We fluctuate from feelings of high to low and back up in a matter or minutes sometimes, or the feelings can extend over weeks and months. …

“I said no to something! I was invited to dinner with some friends, but I said no because it was our last night on holiday and I wanted to try a new restaurant instead.” This report came from a proud client who, historically, was terrified of offending people, so she…

I remember sitting at my desk at BlackBerry when my co-worker Andrew excitedly returned to work with a big smile on his face. He had been on a Six Sigma training course, and it was totally blowing his mind. I was 22, and a complete sponge for everything in the…

and an innovative courage-based planning tool to use when your self-doubt comes between you and your goals How many times have you set goals in your business? And how many of those times did you immediately put them out of sight and forget about them? Or worse, how many times…

That “clarity” you’ve been looking for? This is it. Money. It’s one of the core outcomes of running a business, yet often the least understood by the entrepreneur. It’s a key factor in decision-making for a business, yet the entrepreneur rarely has clarity on where their finances stand. Sometimes I wonder if I’m obsessed with money. I find myself…

It is completely possible to have a successful business and never hire a coach. Surprised to hear me say that? Think about it for even a minute, and you know of course it must be true. Technically, you could consider coaching a luxury. And yet, I’m a coach. I was…

It was July of 2011, and I was sitting in a lecture hall at the University of South Australia. Not because I was taking classes, but because I was working a temp job setting up AV equipment for professors. I had just moved to Australia a few months earlier, and…

You know that feeling you have in your body when you’re completely resisting something? Mine shows up as a heaviness and a tightness; it’s like my limbs are being weighed down and it takes immense effort to get them to move. I tell myself to do it, but my body…