Guest Blog: Where’s My Map?
By Tamara M. Roy, AIA Leed AP Early on as an architecture student I started to look for women mentors to provide a metaphorical ‘map’ for my professional life. I thought if I could follow them, I’d learn the way to success. What I found surprised me. The map I was looking for was […]
Live with Mia: How to Start When You Are Putting Something Off
Ever put off something that scared you? Even your friendly neighborhood empowerment coach does from time to time.
Last week on Live with Mia, I shared a behind the scene look at my 20 minute strategy to get started on a big scary project that you’ve been putting off.
How to Start When You Are Putting Something Off
My 20 minute strategy to start on that big scary project that you’ve been putting off Ever had something really important and high-level project you have been putting off for weeks? It happened to one of my coaching students when she was gunning for a leadership level job. She hit some progress — she was […]
Build Yourself with Mia: Take Back Your Time
Last week I went live to talk about how to tell if your own personal brand of ‘crazy busy’ is of your own making, and my top strategies to take back your time without feeling like (or being called) a five letter word. I pulled just a short 5 minute clip out of that conversation […]
Take Back Your Time: 4 Strategies to Feel Less Busy and Take Back Power Over Your Schedule
4 Strategies to Feel Less Busy and Take Back Power Over Your Schedule I know what crazy busy feels like in my body. It’s a kind of harried breathing—my attention darts from thing to thing. It’s not realizing how bad I’ve had to pee—and for how long—because I’ve been so wrapped up in work, I […]
Three Habits, Three Ways: Part 1
This time of year many of us have goal setting on the mind. Just as we finish up one holiday season, it seems like new messages are everywhere shouting, “Goals, Goals, Goals!” Setting goals for the new year is a great way to get clarity around your career. But setting those goals is just step […]
Drowning in “office housework”? Sign #2 that you’re holding yourself back
Last week I shared a telltale sign of limiting beliefs: being bored in your current role. I see this so often in my clients. These brilliant women are unsatisfied with their work but undervalue themselves and don’t know how to break out of their roles. I shared how I coached one client to start applying for jobs […]
Your Free Passport to Joyful Goal Setting This Summer
I don’t know about you, but I absolutely LOVE summer. I don’t mind the heat (must be that middle eastern blood,) love the extra light, and those quintessentially summer things like strawberries (that actually taste like strawberries) and beach days still give me those feelings of childlike wonder. With all that joy and positivity in the air, creativity just […]
Pre Holiday Season Reflection
I’m not a big fan of New Year’s resolutions. New Year’s intentions–well that’s another thing.
Why the Bar is Lower Than You Think
A view from my solo road trip last October. I didn’t get my driver’s license until I graduated from college. I grew up in a city, and didn’t have a parent who wanted to teach me, and so I just never got around to it. But in the spring of my senior year I suddenly […]
