1 year ago, I celebrated my client Kay, a Director of Data Science, who submitted her application for her old manager’s role.

The ask for a promotion — hitting send on the application— was more momentous than the getting.

Asking is living into the belief: "I AM A PERSON OF POTENTIAL."

People often tell me, “I need to get comfortable with speaking up and asking for what I want.”

No, you don’t.

Comfort is not what creates confidence.

Courage is.

Courage feels awkward AF, vulnerable and thorny. Like in the best yoga stretch that starts with a groan but ends with a deep, releasing exhale.

How do you spend less time worrying about what others think and hit SEND on that brave and tough email?

How do you deliver bad news or share an opposing opinion WITHOUT second guessing your every word?

So that you have more time, faster results and the confidence of a professional?

This was the growth journey of my client Sarah Eadie who generously shares her coaching experience in this 8 minute video. Watch or read the transcript here.

No often means something even better is coming around the corner.

This is what my client Sarah Eadie took to heart from our coaching sessions.

After being told she didn't have adequate experience, she flipped no to yes and got hired into a higher-paying role.

A year into that role, she was promoted. Last year she earned a $30K bonus.

She spoke candidly with me in this video interview about how she did it.

In this client interview, Liz, Senior Director of Marketing and Communications at a national nonprofit, shares her experience learning to negotiate both a promotion and better work-life balance through coaching.

In this client interview, Kristine, who works as a software engineer, shares her experience building confidence through coaching.

In this client interview, Roseanne shares how she got promoted and better paid while working on the frontlines of the pandemic.

You’re a smart woman with ideas working in tech / finance / a male-dominated industry.

You share your idea at a meeting.

Here’s what to say when someone repeats your idea and takes credit for it, as if they didn’t hear you.

You have a desire to serve others. As a working woman, a leader, a mother, a daughter, a mentor to others. Your desire to serve is NOT at odds with your capacity to negotiate your career.

Here are 3 stories of my clients who negotiated as an act of service and generated win-win outcomes. This is possible for you, too.

Here's how my client Amy overcame impostor syndrome in six weeks.

This month, I'm helping my clients set impossible goals for 2021.

Going from newly hired associate director in 2020 to managing 2 PnL lines by end of 2021. From learning the ropes this year to raising $300MM in capital for a new investment fund. Ending next year as the first woman of color company executive. WITHOUT burnout.

Here are two things to say to increase your income for 2021. It may not be what you think!

I got to each first doing it messy.

I made LOTS of mistakes. (And still do.)

The costliest mistakes were whenever I thought I had to be fake, play politics or jump through extra hurdles to "prove my worth" at work.

20 years ago in New Jersey, I was an awkward, introverted high school senior.

Even though I had zero popularity, I asked five boys to go to the prom with me.

They all said no.