I was listening to an episode of Unfollowing Mum by the wonderful Harriet Shearsmith when she mentioned self-gaslighting. This immediately resonated as something I do and that I want to consciously stop doing. But I also think this is really common. I see it a lot in the career conversations I have. Yes, your career … Read more
As a leader, you are a doer. You are thinking about the future, creating strategies, nurturing the people in your care and all the other things that come along with positions of leadership. Doing is your behaviours, your actions and your decisions. But what if I asked who you are being as a leader? Who … Read more
During my masterclass on reducing overwhelm, which I ran in September, I shared an insight I had had in a coaching session with Dicken Bettinger and that insight was…being present is the antidote to overwhelm. Wowsers. It transformed my thinking. Let’s expand… The Overwhelm Epidemic Before we dive into the solution, let’s take a moment … Read more
I was telling my coach that I felt like I was constantly running on a hamster wheel. Always rushing from one thing to the next, and never seeming to have enough time to slow down and enjoy life. She told me to slow down. I thought I was (I wasn’t) and I didn’t know how … Read more
In the final of this mini-series, I wanted to talk about the idea of being too much and how it stops us from shining brightly. My own experience of shining brightly was full of self-made barriers that came from a feeling of being too much. I remember a colleague once saying to me ‘you’re always … Read more