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

Written by Maria Connolly. Posted in Dream Big - Start Small, EMERGE Method, Leadership Skills, Stepping Forward, Women in 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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Breaking Through: Overcome Obstacles in Your Path to Professional Excellence

Written by Maria Connolly. Posted in Dream Big - Start Small, Leadership Skills, Self-Leadership Skills, Women in Leadership.

Breaking through personal barriers helps you reach your full potential as a business executive or coach. Here’s a simple, powerful tool to use.As ambitious women with big dreams, we’ve all hit that point where we’re ready to go further, but something seems to hold us back. How can we work through these roadblocks? The answer will be found, not in working harder, but in working smarter and understanding ourselves on a deeper level. Let’s dive into how breaking through personal barriers will help you reach your full potential.

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The Full Spectrum Human Intelligence: Why You’re Smarter Than You Think

Written by Maria Connolly. Posted in Dream Big - Start Small, Embodied Leadership, Emotional Intelligence, Leadership Skills, Self-Leadership Skills, Women in Leadership.

This article on human intelligence is longer than most because there’s a vital point to grasp…

By cultivating awareness of your multiple forms of human intelligence and working mindfully with your patterns, you can develop more flexible, authentic responses to life's challenges.When people speak of human intelligence they’re referring to mental abilities, right? We give great importance to the head — go to the ‘head’ of the class; the main office is ‘head’quarters; she’s the ‘head’ of the department or the ‘head’ of her field; the CEO is the ‘head’ of the company; etc. But there is so much more to being human than being a brain. 

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Embodied Empowerment — Take Yourself & Your Business to the Top!

Written by Maria Connolly. Posted in Dream Big - Start Small, Embodied Leadership, Leadership Skills, Self-Leadership Skills.

Embodied Empowerment is the key to mastering skills and behaviors so they become almost automatic.Embodied empowerment is often associated with self-development… but have you considered how the principles of embodiment can help entrepreneurs, coaches, and leaders make their businesses more successful?

Mastering ourselves leads to mastering our business. But here’s the inside scoop: mastery comes from embodiment — your body instinctively knows how and what to do, without you telling it. 

But this in no way comes automatically. It takes practicing a process often until it becomes part of who you are and how you show up. Don’t you agree that if it’s worth having; it’s worth the work?

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Feeling Alone? 5 Ways to Build Your Own Community of Empowering Women

Written by Maria Connolly. Posted in Dream Big - Start Small, Great Circle Community, Leadership Skills, Women in Leadership. No Comments on Feeling Alone? 5 Ways to Build Your Own Community of Empowering Women

Build your own community of empowered women by intentionally connecting every week with women you admire.In bygone eras, women knew the power of community. They met together in quilting bees, book clubs, and lunch socials. Yes, these leaned heavily toward socializing, because professional opportunities for women were severely restricted. Ironically, today women have endless professional opportunities but our community support has declined.  Are you feeling alone? Then I urge you to build your own community of empowering women.

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