Category: life coach

  • The Double Edged Sword of Marketing

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    Paula

    I’m in the midst of changing my life, and working hard to become a life coach after fifteen years of working in advertising agencies. One morning this week, I had an aha moment when I woke up, drafting this on my phone before I even got out of bed. Double…

  • 2015 is The Year of ‘No Toggle’

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    Paula

    “No Toggle” is a phrase I first heard in a Jess Lively’s podcast, during her interview with Kris Carter. In a nutshell, Kris is striving to live his life as authentically and intentionally true to his purpose as possible. It means that he strives to be the same person at…

  • Speaking the Words of Your Dreams: On Being Honest With Myself About Changing Careers

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    Paula

    This blog has been such a journey of learning to speak the words of my dreams. It strikes me that even the choice of the name, Welcoming Spirit, was the open invitation for change and love and spirit to enter my life after my divorce eight years ago. And since…

  • Excuse Busting: Two Reasons I Make Excuses

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    Paula

    Over the last week I’ve thought a lot about excuses, still, since my time on CreativeLive with Michelle. It’s made me really get mindful about excuses when I hear them come up in my subconscious. On CreativeLive with Michelle Ward in her amazing “Create Your Dream Career” course Why am…

  • Free Wallpaper Download: Excuses Rob Us Of Possibilities in the Future

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    Paula

    Embracing my new found title of “The Excuse Buster,” I tweeted this quote … “Excuses Rob Us of Possibilities in the Future.” It came to me after writing my last post. I paired it with a photo of a passionflower on a cement floor. Hardy and gorgeous, the passionflower grows…

  • The Excuse Buster! Learning to Live Past the Excuses and Why I do It

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    Paula

    Tomorrow I get to wake up, put on a dress and a new sweater and go be on CreateLive with Michelle Ward as part of her “Create Your Dream Career” course. She’s bringing me on to talk about being an “Excuse Buster,” which surely fits me. I don’t know what…

  • The Dream is Free, The Hustle is Sold Separately: The Recession is Bullhonkey with The When I Grow Up Coach

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    Paula

    Today I’m pretty excited because I have a little guest post action going on over at Michelle’s blog. She has a cool series she calls “The Recession is Bullhonkey,” and in today’s post I share a bit about my job journey over the last few years. Here’s my post. It…

  • Big News! CreativeLive Interview with Michelle Ward

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    Paula

    Big news! One of my favorite people and THE all around awesome life coach, Michelle Ward, is going to be teaching a FREE three day course on CreativeLive on September 11-13. And, get this, she’s asked me to join her on that Friday to be part of an interview session!…

  • About My Last Year in a Terrible Job or Why I Left Advertising

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    Paula

    In the book Abundant Simplicity by Jan Johnson, I discovered a quote that hit home pretty hard for me. “Marketing folks have identified the masters we don’t even know we are serving. ‘Marketing theory says that people are driven by fear, by the promise of exclusivity, by guilt and by…