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What is Fear? Helpful Tips To Confront & Overcome Your Fears
The quickening of the pulse, the tightening of the chest, the raising of the hairs on the back of the neck. These are some of the symptoms. Why do our bodies react in this way when all we want is merely to speak our mind or get that spider out of our home? Is having...
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Is the Fear of Failure Limiting Your Growth?
Fear of failure is a subconscious symptom of even deeper-seated issues that are triggered by the things that challenge us, the things that others will see and share unsolicited opinions about, sometimes even the mundane things that seem ordinary to the masses like...
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FEMININE LEADERSHIP: THE ROMANTICIZING OF WOMEN’S SUFFERING
There’s evidence that suggests that hospitals over-estimate women’s endurance to pain and as a result, many women patients are under-treated until it’s too late. Serena Williams was met with a similar fate when she had to diagnose her own blood clots during her...
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Leadership from the Heart
We need to put heart back into our leadership. Leadership’s a verb – let’s use our hearts and intuition courageously. Being in a position of leadership doesn’t mean you’re an effective leader. I can count on one hand the number of genuine leaders I’ve been blessed to...
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6 Misconceptions about Leadership: Lessons I’ve learned as a Leader and Manager
If you’re ambitious and climbing that corporate ladder or building your dream business, there’s no doubt that you know how important it is to develop into a great leader. I’ve been leading and managing people for almost 20 years now and I have learned the single most...
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Feminine Leadership: What it Really Means
I started my career in technology, outnumbered as a woman in large corporate IT departments. I worked in teams where some of the men questioned whether I had any value to add. It’s hard not to take those comments personally but I chose to use them as fuel, striving...
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Just Say No to Pouring the Tea!
This week we interviewed Lisa Lyhne, Managing Director for Sun Exchange. Lisa is the perfect example of both resilience and leadership. Lisa talks about encompassing resilience both emotionally; as a woman in a man's industry, and physically; by leading her...
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How to Bounce Back from Failure
To understand failure, it depends totally on what your view of success is. If success is wealth, status and achievements to you, then failure will be its antithesis. But if Success to you is more about wholeness, family and spirituality, failure is not a scary word....
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What Is Resilience & Why Does It Matter?
One of the few constants in life is adversity. Things go wrong, we get hurt and we fail. Whether it’s in our personal lives or in our business, we are guaranteed to encounter obstacles. How we respond to them and how we treat ourselves in the process, matters....
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Resilience – Are You Born With It Or Do You Learn It?
Born or bred? Nature or nurture? How often do we discuss this quandary in the hope of finding answers that will give us more resources and understanding. Resilience has had its fair share of this debate applied to it. Thankfully for us, it’s come out of the research...
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How to sell in 60 seconds
Original piece by Tony Parinello for Entrepreneur Q: I've always equated selling with telling, and lately I've noticed that my prospects cut me off when I am giving them my pitch. What's the best way to get my point across and win the sale? A: I would imagine that...
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How to nail Facebook Ads Manager
Over the last three weeks we have partnered up with Facebook, and one of Facebook’s strategic partnership managers, Toni Adentan, to teach us the best ways to use Facebook and Instagram for your business. What is Facebook Ads Manager? Facebook ads manager is the...
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