4 Career, Leadership And Strategy Lessons From One Powerful Conversation
I recently sat down with my friend and former colleague Nina Muhleisen to record an episode of the Self.Styled.Lifepodcast. Nina is the founder of consultancy Three6 and someone whose story, mindset, and approach to work I find deeply inspiring. You can listen to...
Can’t See Yourself Like Others Do? Here’s Why – And How to Change That
It’s a truth universally acknowledged: women, no matter how successful or accomplished, often struggle to see themselves as others see them. Why is that? Why can’t we embrace the magic everyone else sees in us? It’s a question I hear time and again from my coaching...
Lead, don’t mother. Four tips empower your team without mothering them
One of the biggest mistakes I see female leaders making when it comes to their careers and particularly their leadership, is falling into mothering energy with their teams. For nurturing, empathetic leaders, this can happen without them even realising it. Things start...
Curation – An essential skill for self-styling your life
If you’ve been in my world for any time at all, you’ll know that my self-styled life framework focuses on clarity, mindset and action. When I talk about clarity, I'm talking about getting clear on what you want. And when you start really refining what you want in your...
Four signs you might be burned out and what to do next
When people think of burnout, they imagine it involves some spectacular sort of fiery crash. Like a plane or star falling from the sky. Or how we might read about an influencer crashing and burning in a celebrity gossip magazine. And sometimes this is the case. A...
Pre-empting – An emerging protective behaviour
I’ve shared many times on the Self.Styled.Life podcast and in my journal about the common self-protective behaviours. Six of these behaviours were introduced to me by the awesome Sas Petherick and they include people-pleasing, paralysis, perfectionism,...
The real reason you feel like a fraud
You have no idea how often the women I work with - either in coaching or in corporate - tell me they feel like a fraud. Or they’ll reference their imposter syndrome. Or they’ll be a little less direct with their language and say things like ‘I was probably the only...
How do you take care of yourself?
It almost always breaks my heart when I ask women the question 'How do you take care of yourself?' and they answer with words like ‘Not very well’ or ‘I don’t’ or ‘I’ve let myself go’. We can’t fill from an empty cup and if we want to show up fully to our careers,...
Wholehearted self-leadership with Terri Connellan
I have to tell you - it was such a very great pleasure to interview my friend and fellow coach Terri Connellan on the Self.Styled.Life podcast. In this episode, Terri and I dive deep into the topics of wholehearted self-leadership and transitions. This was such...