Reinvention can sound exciting when you imagine the possibilities. Yet living through it can feel very different. You may know that something in your career or life needs to change. You may even feel ready for what comes next. Still, moving forward can be harder than you expected. That is because reinvention asks you to…
There are times in life when the person you have been no longer fits the life you want to create. Your career may still look successful. Your responsibilities may still be getting done. From the outside, very little may appear wrong. Yet internally, you know something is changing. You may not need to become someone…
I’m not starting over. I’m starting differently. When I first built my coaching business, relationships, referrals and local partnerships played a significant role in how opportunities developed. Today, I’m rebuilding LITE Up™ in a very different environment — one shaped by virtual work, global competition, digital delivery, artificial intelligence and new possibilities for how a…
Deciding to become a coach can feel exciting. Yet completing coach training and actually beginning to see yourself as a coach are not always the same thing. One gives you knowledge, skills and a foundation for practice. The other develops gradually as you learn to trust yourself, work with real people and grow into the…
Perhaps you have reached a point in your career when simply doing work well no longer feels like enough. You want your experience to mean something. You want to contribute differently. Maybe people already come to you when they need perspective, encouragement, or help working through a challenge. At some point, a question begins to…
Sometimes you know something needs to change before you know what that change should be. You may be questioning your career, reconsidering what success means to you, or simply sensing that the way you have been living no longer feels quite right. You are not necessarily stuck. In fact, you may already be growing. The…
Sometimes, nothing is obviously wrong, yet you know something is changing. Your work may still be meaningful. Your life may still look successful from the outside. You may even feel grateful for much of what you have created. Still, beneath all of that, there is a quiet sense that you are being called to more….
Building a coaching practice for the second time is teaching me something I thought I already knew: experience doesn’t eliminate uncertainty. Twenty years after first becoming an entrepreneur, I find myself building again — only this time, I’m not starting with an empty toolbox. I’m bringing years of coaching experience, thought leadership, perspective and a…
Passion can tell you what lights you up. But passion alone does not always tell you what to do with it. As you move through a career transition or a period of personal growth, the deeper question often becomes: How do I turn what matters to me into something meaningful? Passion Is a Starting Point…
Passion can be powerful. It can energize you, pull you toward something new and remind you of parts of yourself that may have been quiet for a long time. But passion alone does not always create a life that feels aligned. The deeper question is not simply, What am I passionate about? It is: How…
