This has been a whirlwind month and a half! After selling our home in a town we've lived the last 19 years and a state I've lived in my whole life...my husband and I with our 13 yr old son in tow, decided to leave our hometown of Chicago and move to Florida. When we made this decision - we didn't have a concrete plan. We just knew that we wanted a lifestyle change that would include water and warm weather. So we took a leap of faith and trusted that we would build the net as

This card was just what I needed to find last week after I bottomed out on a personal goal I had been working on. After feeling a range of emotions from embarrassment to disappointment - I decided to NOT throw the towel in on myself. I turned off the negative chatter and tuned inward to listen to my heart, focused on my breath and got back up again. Sometimes life throws us off course and things don't go as planned. The biggest disappointments then become our biggest lessons.

This weekend I spent time in Miami for a coaching retreat with my business coach and ten of my coaching colleagues. I had major reservations about going when I found out the retreat was the weekend of my birthday AND Greek Easter, two things that I always celebrate with my family. To top it off my oldest son, Michael made plans to fly into town to surprise me...😵 Not gonna lie, the Greek Guilt popped in my head 🤦🏻‍♀️ - but not for too long. Instead of cabashing the retreat

When I begin to work with my clients, they all want to know the "strategy" or the "plan" for getting started on what they really want to do. I know exactly what they are looking for - because it's what I thought I needed too when I first started my entrepreneurial journey. I learned the hard way that all the strategy and planning in the world would not build my most important asset: my self belief. You see - it's this little thing called self belief that's driving the bus int

Last week I hosted a workshop with a group of realtors. I put together a session that would give them the opportunity to see the power of perspective. We began with talking about the current challenges in their lives. Then we did a powerful exercise that tapped into their future selves....and then revisited those current challenges from a future self mindset. GAME CHANGER. Why? Because when you think from a higher place of certainty, your outlook changes, how you feel changes

Last week I shared the story of my entrepreneurial journey with you. While my first business helped a lot of people, truth be told I could have made a bigger impact if I knew then what I know now. Had I learned how to shift my doubts into positive self belief, the outcome of my business would have been much different. Had I understood the value of personal self care - and I'm not talking about manis and pedis (although those are nice 😉), I could have been so much kinder and

My main mission with my coaching work is to help people think better. When you think better, you feel better. When you feel better, you behave better. When you behave better, you get better results in your life. So, let me ask you: Are you paying attention to the inner coach who's talking compassionately and inspiringly to you OR are you paying attention to the inner critic who's doubting and sabotaging you? Unfortunately the odds are stacked against us humans. Our brain is p

I DON'T KNOW. Three of the most debilitating words you can say to yourself. After the new year as I started to settle in to January goals - I found myself saying those exact three words....over....and over. The end result from repeating this bad mantra was that I got further and further away from finding a solution. Here's how it sounded in my brain: "I don't know how to do this." "I've never done this before." "I can't do this" Repeating these defeating sentences, I became s

There was a time not so long ago that I never thought this was possible. I thought that if I was having success, surely the other shoe would drop and I would fail somewhere. This past year, I worked really hard on my “worst case scenario” mentality. I decided that every time my brain wanted to worry when things were going well (..so ridiculous - right?) I would send my brain to the “best case scenario”. In those moments - I believed there was possibility and that gave me hope

Have you taken time to write your New Year's Resolutions? As you think about 2019, I'd like to suggest you - DITCH YOUR LIST! I ditched my list years ago after stumbling on the one word tool a coach by the name of Christine Kane was doing. Her discovery tool asks you to think of how you want to feel vs writing out resolutions. 2015 - Connected 2016 - Inspired 2017- Trust 2018 - Expand What a difference these words made each year for me. I'm a firm believer that words have pow

This week I want to ask you 4 questions: ** Who do you want to show up as in 2019? ** How do you want to feel in 2019? ** On December 31, 2019 how do you want to feel about yourself and how the year went? ** If everything could go magically perfect - what would your year look like? Those four questions are part of an intentional exercise I use with my clients. It's super powerful. It guides you to decide ahead of time. It allows you to set yourself up in your mind so that if

More aha moments while on my mat this past week and more life revelations popped up as I was doing yoga. People - this one is HUGE. While standing and holding a warrior II pose, I noticed how UNCOMFORTABLE I was. My brain kept telling me to let my arms drop, stretch out my legs, let my shoulders slouch... I was inches away from giving in to the part of my powerful brain that likes to stay in comfort zone. I was seconds aways from just collapsing.... Until I heard this: "Pat

Some of you may have seen my Facebook post about having a kidney stone attack last week that landed me in the hospital. If you've ever had them, you know the pain and havoc they reek on your body. I knew I was having an attack at 3:30 am because of my prior experience with them, so I didn't waste anytime getting my booty to the ER PRONTO. After a weekend in hospital, I was release and told the stone moved and I "should" pass it over the next few days. I left a happy camper

🛑 I remember waking up feeling totally STUCK in my life 🛑 I used to worry more about what others thought of me than what I thought of me 🛑 I could never get past the past, hence the future was just some silly affirmations I'd say to myself but DIDN'T BELIEVE 🛑 I had high expectations for myself and others that only led to frustration and unhappiness. 🛑 I kept looking for my "passion" but could not find it YES TOTALLY STUCK... ➡️ ALL OF THAT CHANGED WHEN I CHANGED WHAT I

This week I'm off to Dallas for the yearly mastermind with my coaching school, The Life Coach School. I'll be surrounded by some of the best coaches in the industry. Mindset Ninjas. I'm super excited but I've got to be honest - I'm also nervous and intimidated. Here's what's happening in my head: "I'm not as good as them" "I've been at this a lot longer than others and I should be further along" "I'll probably be the oldest one there" NO WONDER I FEEL NERVOUS AND INTIMIDATED

One of the biggest reasons why I can authentically share the power of mindset is because this is the work that literally changed the course of my happiness. Sometimes I get clients who want to learn the secret sauce to having a strong positive mindset, which is what I LOVE to teach them – but . . . They want the shortcut. They want to know it theoretically. But don’t want to take the time to really employ it in their lives. People! Doing the work – WORKS! I’m not gonna lie –