Category Archives: Mom-a-rama
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What Are You Doing to Prepare?
It seems very possible that the US dollar is on its way to collapse. While I’d like to pretend it’s just fear-mongering, I can feel the reality that it’s not.
The reality is that we know a shift is coming.
Whether that shift is a massive weather shift that impacts all of us, an economic shift that will rock us to our core or some sort of an astrological shift around the year 2012, it does not matter.
The shift is coming and I’m wondering how you are preparing.
The Time Has Come – Are You Ready for Real Community?
After making my last video (totally raw, real and behind the scenes), many of you let me know that’s how you like it best. That’s great because it’s what I like doing best too.
It still takes some pushing through fear for me to do it, but I’ve begun to move into more excitement than fear now thanks to hearing from you guys how much you really do love it.
So I want to let you in behind the scenes of what’s going on with my evolution because many of you watched the video and asked me to share more about the community that is being created.
What to Do When You Don’t Feel Like It
I leave for Los Angeles today for my first time stepping out of my little cocoon of home, kids and business in a few months.
Often, I’m constantly in motion – traveling here and there, doing business, having fun and being out there.
But for the last few months, I’ve come within. Home. Money Map. Kids. Family. Local community. Friends. Team.
As this trip to Los Angeles was approaching, I began to feel extremely stressed about the idea of re-emerging and stepping into a photo shoot. That’s not normal for me. There’s little I love more than a camera pointed in my direction.
2010 Year in Review Post – a Big, Transformational Year
Last year at this time, my entire life was nearly completely different than it is today. I’ve resisted writing my 2010 year in review post because it feels like there is so much to write, so much to think about.
But now that my big end of the year call is over, I can focus on it.
Okay here goes …
Last year at this time, I lived in LA, I had not yet created my Money Map program, was putting final touches on LIFT, had a business with Dave (my life and business partner of 3 years). My lawyer coaching business was on track to bring in big revenue for the year ($1.5mm) and my overhead was out of control. Todd and I were living together and parenting the kids together, sort of.
How Do You “Work” Through Conflict and Emotional Upset?
You’re in the midst of a conflict with your spouse, your best friend, one of your team members, a parent or a sibling, a child … how do you “work” through it?
I use work in quotes here because I really do mean both aspects of work, the inner work of the emotional upset and the outer work of putting your Great Work into service.
I know many of my clients struggle with this … staying in service to the outer work when the inner work is raging. And it’s one of the things I’m best able to help them with because I’ve dealt with it so much in my own life.
The New American Dream? Giving It All Up
I’m writing from Cuzco, Peru. It’s my second day here and what I’m awed by the most so far is not the Peruvian culture or even the ancient history.
I’m awed by the number of people I’m meeting here who have given up the “American Dream” to discover their own dreams.
They’ve “given it all up” for something so much greater. Their own freedom.
Like Larissa, the art teacher, who has been resistant to change most of her life, but knew there was something more. So she sold most of her belongings, put the rest in the storage and now she’s here on her way to who knows where.
Deep Abiding Trust … Burning Man 2010
I left for Burning Man this year with an intention … deep abiding trust. And yet as I landed in Reno, I didn’t feel full of trust. I felt worried and tense, on edge.
My first year there without the kids and up until a couple of months before I thought I was going to Burning Man to party it up. To revel in the shadow.
And then I met Russell. Well, I didn’t just meet him; we’ve known each other for a few years. But, I just met him in a new way a couple months ago after Dave and I broke up.
Ending a Relationship With Love, Honor and Respect
Four years ago this month, I met a man who changed my life.
I had been praying to God to show me how to transition from my bricks and mortar law firm into a business that would allow me to impact many more people and work from home.
I had spent a lot of money and time with false gurus who promised a lot and delivered a little.
Burned out and almost ready to give up, I flew out to Cleveland to a Dan Kennedy event praying for the answers I was seeking.
Trapped By the Hard/Easy Paradox?
So often when I’m working with a client I find myself saying the exact things I need to hear myself.
Yesterday I was coaching a woman who applied for my Powerful Feminine Leader Mastermind (just two spaces left!) and what came up was the exact reason I began the mastermind … the hard/easy paradox that has so many of us trapped in the masculine way of doing business that can be oh so painful.
I hope that this post helps you see where you’ve been choosing hard because you believe it’s easier when you can choose ease, even though it seems so hard.
You Don’t Have to Invest $100,000
It was late 2008. From the outside, everything seemed to be going great …
I’d just published a bestselling book on legal planning for parents, I’d recently appeared on the Today Show, my business was on track to bring in more than a million dollars of revenue for the year, and I was teaching lawyers how to
serve their clients in a new way.
And yet, I felt stuck, flat, like something was missing.
I knew there was something else … something more or perhaps it was something less. I didn’t know; I just knew it was … something.
