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I hear it time and time again. “Can you help me with my resume?” My response is almost always the same. “Yes, I can and I will but we won’t start there.” Your resume is not the best place to start when conducting a job search or contemplating a career transition. I understand the attraction […]

Career, Coaching, Job Search, Resume

May 15, 2021

Don’t Start With the Resume! Start with Yourself Instead

Are you contemplating a career change this year? If so, are you clear on the change you want to make? Most of my clients want some support in figuring out their next steps. Here are some questions for reflection: How will you feel a year from now if you haven’t made a change? How do […]

Career, Coaching

January 28, 2021

Are You Contemplating a Career Change? Consider these 4 Questions

Happy November! As we approach this stressful election week and start of the holiday season, I offer this Choose Joy playlist of music on Spotify that I hope uplifts and inspires you to choose joy no matter what comes as we close out this history making year. My teen daughter and I had a wonderful […]

Coaching, Joy, Music, Self-Care

November 1, 2020

Dance with Joy

Joyful Living Coaching is partnering with Kara Vona Naturals and Kimberly Joy Collection this year to offer special holiday gifts for your loved ones (and yourself). Get the annual holiday coaching special and add on a candle and a tea for a tangible reminder that you support your loved one’s wellbeing and career. Don’t miss […]

Coaching, Holiday Gift

October 14, 2020

Give the Gift of Career and Life Coaching

Back in May, I had the pleasure of sitting down with Dr. Melissa Sexton (a rock star therapist!) to discuss how to choose joy during tough times, even during a pandemic. Check it out and let me know what you think. I hope it helps you be inspired to keep growing your choice muscles. While […]

Career, Coaching, Joy, Self-Care

October 6, 2020

Video: How to Choose Joy in Tough Times (hello 2020!)

Thanks to Ashley S. Freeman, MBA and Flourishing Work LLC for having me as a guest blogger to write about how to thrive in challenging times! Ashley is a thoughtful and caring collaborator and an example of how to choose joy in your career. #careers #careerpivot #choosejoy #jobsearch

Career, Coaching, Job Search, Self-Care, vision

September 17, 2020

How Strong Are Your Choice Muscles? Tips to help you thrive during challenging times (Guest Blog at Flourishing Work LLC)

How could you start to choose joy today? It’s a new way of being for many of us but you can grow your choice muscles. Start today. Choose one moment, one feeling, one person, or one thing that brings you joy. Then rinse and repeat tomorrow. Before you know it, you’ll be a pro at […]

Career, Coaching, Joy, Self-Care, vision

September 12, 2020

Can You Choose Joy Today?

Out of curiosity to learn more about a current popular coach, I attended a “training” last week that promised job search tips, insider secrets and lots of other too good to be true promises. You know the kind. All fluff and no substance that are really just a marketing ploy to get you to buy […]

Career, Coaching, Joy, Self-Care, vision

September 11, 2020

Could You Use Some Support this Month?

“And while we’re here, let’s get to our work!” Wes Moore closes his powerful Super Soul Sunday talk with these words having explained the importance in knowing the difference between our job and our work. Do these words excite you? Terrify you? Do they make you “nervicited” as my daughter likes to say? (nervous and […]

Career, Coaching, Job Search, Joy, Resume, Self-Care, vision

July 5, 2020

What’s Your Work? Can You Name It?

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