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How to Find Your Voice: Your Authentic Journey Toward Confident Leadership

Knowing how to find your voice,  honing your message, and learning to trust your voice will make you influential and unforgettableIt takes time to find your voice, that thing that makes you authentic and a force to be reckoned with. Knowing how to find your voice,  honing your message, and learning to trust your voice will make you influential and unforgettable. Is that your heart’s desire? After all, we’ve all experienced how icky it feels to be overlooked, unappreciated, put down, dismissed, unheard, underestimated, or undervalued. What can we do to make sure that doesn’t happen again? 

Perhaps you can relate to what happened to me years ago:

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Feeling Empty Inside? Reignite Your Passion, Purpose, and Personal Power

When you're feeling empty inside it's time to concentrate on your Growth Intelligences, such as Creative, Innovative, and Learning intelligences.Many professional women today talk about feeling like something is missing in their lives. They describe it as feeling empty inside.

For example, Lauren (not her real name) came to me, exhausted. On paper, she had and did it all… C-suite leader, board member, and mother of three. But behind the impressive titles and relentless schedule was a woman who felt she was barely holding it together. She said, “I’ve built a career I’m proud of, but somewhere along the way, I started feeling empty inside. And I’m not sure why. I feel like I’m stagnating, like I’m not moving forward. Everything feels like maintenance, not momentum.”

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Great Leaders Never Stop Learning – Have You?

Leaders never stop learning. They have a learning mindset that’s driven by curiosity. Thirst for knowledge and understanding will make you an outstanding leader.

In the quiet moments before dawn, while most of the world sleeps, Warren Buffett is already awake,  not reviewing financial statements, but immersed in a book. This isn’t occasional leisure; it’s a deliberate daily practice consuming 80% of his working hours. What does one of the world’s wealthiest individuals know that many aspiring leaders miss? Never stop learning!

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Five Basic Survival Skills We Must Learn to Thrive in Today’s Challenging World

Five Basic Survival Skills We Should Have Learned as Kids

When people talk about basic survival skills, they usually mean foraging, hunting, fire-starting, or shelter-building. But in the 21st century, we need additional kinds of survival skills.

Thinking back on my childhood, I see how my parents prepared me in some important ways for life in the 21st century. My parents taught me basic survival skills: how to adapt, deal with change, and be prepared to face any challenge. Yet there were other key skills I had to learn the hard way.

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Why Intelligent People Always Bounce Back Stronger & Better

Intelligent people are fully aware of the entire spectrum of human intelligence and work to make those mind-body-spirit connections stronger.Intelligent people? What does that mean? From my point of view,  intelligent people are fully aware of their entire spectrum of intelligence and continually work to make the mind-body-spirit connections stronger. So far we’ve explored different facets of my EMERGE method based on Embody: Somatic and Energetic IntelligenceMindset: Cognitive and Experiential Intelligence, and Engage: Emotional and Relationship Intelligence. Today we’re exploring R for Resilience: Spiritual and Intuitive Intelligence.

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