There’s a silver lining to Trump…

October 21, 2016 by admin

Donald Trump’s bragging about assaulting women brought up a lot of buried memories for me, and clearly, for LOTS of women. It’s AWFUL.

AND – it has a silver lining. Please watch this short video to hear what it is, and let me know your thoughts.

I’d love to hear your thoughts on the subject both men and women. Join the conversation on Facebook. It’s wonderful to see conscious men speak out on this subject.

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Don’t Yell At Me!

June 24, 2016 by admin

I remember last Thanksgiving at our family gathering. I got passionate about something, and a male family member kept interrupting me. I told him very firmly to stop, and he said, “Don’t yell at me.”

Now, if you’d ever heard me yell (remember, I used to be an opera singer), you’d know I wasn’t even close to yelling. I told him so, and he left the table.

He wanted to control the conversation, and when I wouldn’t let him, he accused me of yelling, and that was supposed to make me shut up. When that didn’t work, he took his football and left.

Most of you women have heard this MANY, MANY times in your lives when you weren’t even close to yelling. Some of you men may have been the ones saying, “Don’t yell at me,” when the woman wasn’t even close to yelling.Continue Reading

You’re not as good as you think

February 4, 2016 by admin

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Yes, I acknowledge it. This is the opposite of what I usually tell you.

Most of the time, I’m all about getting women (especially) to understand that you are better than you think you are, so you can stop hiding out and feeling like a fraud. So you can own your value and the value of everything you have to offer, and we can hear that in your voice.

But there’s a time when you’re NOT as good as you think you are.

It’s when you’ve finally gotten yourself to get out there and speak. You’ve got some experience. You feel like you’ve got your story down. You’ve given your talk or presentation many times, and you’re getting some good feedback.

You think you sound pretty good, and you think you don’t need a speaking coach anymore.

Or, WHEW, you’re glad you never spent the money on that speaker coach you talked to. I knew I could do it myself, you say.

Ooops.

You’ve forgotten a crucial thing about your brain. Or, maybe, you never knew this – your brain is messing with you.

You don’t hear yourself accurately. Or more correctly, you don’t LISTEN to yourself accurately.

SoulCollage® is a fun, creative process to nourish your soul!

October 8, 2015 by admin

Want a fun, creative process to nourish your soul?

I LOVE SoulCollage®. It’s a wonderful way to access my inner wisdom and higher guidance – another way to connect with the voice of my soul.

Not only that, it’s FUN and CREATIVE – and there’s no way to “do it wrong.”

Sounds fabulous, doesn’t it?

We collage our own cards and consult them. Because we made our own cards from images that called to us, and we give meaning to the cards, we are consulting our own inner wisdom – the voice of our soul – when we consult them.

SoulCollage® was created by Seena Frost in the 80’s, and the community of SoulCollage-ers and SoulCollage® Facilitators has been growing around the world ever since. I was introduced to the process a couple of years ago by my dear friend, Mariabruna Sirabella, and recently became a Facilitator myself.Continue Reading

Will You Support Women Speaking Powerfully?

September 24, 2015 by admin

In our journey to create a better world, one of the crucial things we need to do is support powerful women speaking powerfully.

ALL of us.

We have what I call a “cultural voice story” – that women’s voices are less important than men’s. There’s another one I’ve just realized we have – that women have to compete (and compete hard) with each other for the attention of men.

Men can be very dismissive of women’s voices. Another story – we don’t need to pay attention to what women say. I worked with a woman pilot, whose male co-pilots didn’t pay any attention to her voice over their headphones unless she dropped her pitch to sound more like a guy. In her normal speaking voice, they completely tuned her out. It was as if she hadn’t even spoken. When she sounded more like a guy, their brains paid attention.

Voice stories can be insidious, because they are largely UNCONSCIOUS. You don’t even know you have them.

So men, please be aware of these cultural voice stories, and stop buying into them. Notice if you’re tuning women out, and make a choice to tune them back in.

And women, we can be even more critical of other women than the guys are. Men may tune us out, but we often actively tear each other down.

I may have been lucky with women – I’ve been knocked down more often by men than by other women. But I have female friends who have been really savaged by other women.