If you're confused about the difference between a discovery call and a free consultation call, you're not alone. Discovery calls allow coaches to learn about potential clients' needs, but unfortunately, many coaches are trained to agitate pain points and present themselves as the obvious solution—which can feel manipulative and salesy. A free consultation call takes a broader look at your needs, and if the coach isn't the ideal fit, they can provide recommendations or referrals. This is how you demonstrate value even before working together. As a psychotherapist-turned-business strategist, I want to uncomplicate the process of choosing and hiring a coach. Because if you need shoes, you don't go barefoot when the first pair doesn't fit. It's worth taking the time to find your right-fit coach.

Are you a high achiever looking to transform your identity? Writing a book is a great way to do just that.  In this blog, I share the highlights from my conversation with Kim O'Hara who will discuss her experience of transitioning to book coaching and how writing a book can help you achieve greater visibility, credibility, and authority. She'll share her own personal journey of what it was like to write a book, especially the challenge of "letting go" of what she thought her book should be about.

If you happen to be female and in an industry that places a high value on youth, which means anything in the entertainment, beauty, and tech, to name a few, old is out and if you're a woman of a certain age, so are you. So much for 50 is the new 30.

Why are so many people so interested in the topic of shame? Maybe because it is one of the most toxic of all emotions, shutting down the hopes and dreams of countless people, causing such despair and hopelessness that some of them even end their lives because of it.

Not having a plan, a budget or anything more than a passing knowledge of personal finances, I have been truly lucky to get as far as I have in life. I am proud of my accomplishments and my drive, but in all honestly what I didn't know about money has hurt me, big time.

You start by deciding where you want to end up, whether that means married with kids, a successful entrepreneur, or the author of a best-selling book. Then you create a roadmap of actions, working backward from that goal or destination until you reach your current location.

I made up the expression, but the inertia part is actually a physics phenomenon you are probably aware of. I use this term, Entrepreneurial Inertia to explain two of the most common tendencies that entrepreneurs have that make us a mystery (or completely annoying) to others.

For every person who loves your shit, there will be at least one that hates it. Count on it. Accept it. Hell, embrace it if you can. The only opinions that matter are your customers, anyway. Ask them and only them. This isn't crowdsourcing, sweet cheeks, it's just business.

Have you ever noticed that most people have a real problem with the truth? Now, I do realize that 'the truth is totally subjective, and we also have different perspectives and values, so what we pay attention to also differs from person to person.

Lots of entrepreneurial women choose entrepreneurial partners, sometimes without even knowing it, because one or both in the relationship had not yet started their first business when the relationship began.

I value convenience and efficiency, but I have zero desire to become addicted to my device to gain them.

Have you ever wanted to do something, something big, something hard, something that would take a long time to finish? Many of the things that we desire in life require a sustained effort over a long period of time and for those of us with a not-so-lengthy attention span.

We need to learn how to manage all our emotions because buffering causes many more problems than it appears to solve.