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I often share quotes on my social media platforms that move me and lift my spirits. Sometimes it’s these golden nuggets of wisdom that get me through a challenging moment, a mental block or sad day. Here are 10 of my favourites from women: My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to […]

Being an entrepreneur has been an amazing, awful, tremendous, exciting, nerve-wracking experiences, and also one of the best things I have ever done for my life. There have been successes and failures on the journey. I am deeply grateful for my clients, my networks, my team and my ability to keep looking into the unknown

How do you listen to yourself and how you listen to others? This is perhaps an unfamiliar exercise, to observe the filters through which we are hearing ourselves and others. It affects how we interact with the world. I was personally confronted this weekend. My default listening (you know, that pesky inner voice we all

Are you incapable of being with unsavoury situations? When someone yells at you, or when you are with a person who is angry, what is your automatic, instant reaction? Do you freeze and have no space for responding or taking action? This is your reptilian brain response, your fight, flight or freeze and unfortunately you have

Tell me what you want, what you really REALLY want. Were the Spice Girls onto something with sticking that lyric in our heads? In my coaching practice, I have encountered women who are clear about their wants – up until a certain point. Then an event happens (like a landmark birth age is reached or being outsourced

There is no denying I am Chinese woman. I look Chinese and because people can see I am a Chinese woman, I’m often the recipient of comments that indicate personal biases and stereotypes. For instance, when I first moved to New York, I was told by both my white and African American colleagues that I

How many times have you heard about someone valuing “open and honest” conversations? Many people have touted the value of these kinds of conversations as the panacea of resolving all conflict miscommunication and misunderstandings, hurt feelings, etcetera, in both personal and professional life. I have been on the receiving end of many of these so-called

We all want to feel good everyday and it doesn’t always happen. Life gets serious a lot of the time and we forget the little things we can do to take care of ourselves. If we don’t take care of ourselves, we have less to give to our families, friends, jobs and passions. Here are

Getting ready to go on holiday can sometimes be preceded by a period of increased stress. There is lots to do to get ready – from preparing to be away from work, household responsibilities, those to-do items that can’t wait any longer, and preparing what you need for the trip itself. By the time you

My mother’s highest aspiration for me when I was in high school was to be a secretary. She could only envision “secretary” for her daughter as a woman at work. In her paradigm, as an uneducated immigrant woman (she only went up to grade 6 in Chinese school), it made perfect sense as that is