When you connect with your mission it’s powerful. Knowing what’s important to you and how you want to show up in the world makes it easier to speak out, stay true to your bigger purpose and overcome the obstacles and knock-backs that come up. It helps you to stay focused on the things that really matter, …
The experience of being a woman working in tech is sometimes challenging. Tech is a world created and dominated by men, so there is less openness to the struggles women face and less flexibility in the system. Being in the minority, it can be hard to find others like us to share our stories with, …
Your network can help you grow your career, secure funding or sell your product. Even dating and finding yourself a life partner uses networking skills.
Connecting at a superficial level is easier than ever – through online tools and social media, but how can you turn these connections into high-quality relationships which help you achieve your goals?
Here are my top 10 tips on how to grow your network.
Having a coach is becoming more and more popular as a method to support our personal development, at work, in our career and in our personal life too. But many people still aren’t sure what coaching is or know about the value it can bring. So if you’ve heard of coaching and want to know …
Do you panic and get stuck into figuring out what you should do next? Does your mind go into problem-solving mode, looking at all the options, everything that might go wrong in the hope that you come out with the right answer? This used to be me – and to be honest still is sometimes. …
Don’t you just hate dealing with uncertainty? That feeling of not knowing what’s going to happen, how things might turn out, and whether we’ll be able to cope with what life throws at us. For me, I feel uncertainty in my stomach. It starts to churn, I feel queasy. Sometimes I get a flutter in …
How can we get better at dealing with uncertainty? Read More »
How do you respond to failure? Are you one of those lucky people who believe the mantra “there’s no failure, only feedback“, or does the fear of failure stop you from doing things? What if failure was an important part of being creative? What if it was actually a signal we were on the right …
What if failure was an essential part of the creative process? Read More »
When I was younger I wasn’t great at drawing. I was ok, but I found it difficult to draw things that looked realistic from my imagination – and I thought that made me no good at art. So I stopped doing art at school and because I was good at maths and science and focused …
What does it feel like to be truly listened to? When someone is really interested in what you want to say? We like it when people listen to us, but how often do we expect people to do this for us without us taking the time to listen to them? Listening is an essential communication …
Do you find that some days you wake up and everything feels wrong? Or that someone says something to you and you completely overreact, putting you in a low mood for the rest of the day? Those things that you were feeling excited and happy about yesterday suddenly seem risky or scary, you find holes …