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Storytelling: A Self-Discovery Path to Live a Better Story

One book that truly stirred my dreams and gave me the courage to pursue them is Donald Miller’s A Million Miles in a Thousand Years: How I Learned to Live a Better Story. How powerful storytelling can be in shaping our lives and defining who we become! This enchanting memoir took me on a journey of self-discovery and personal transformation. Inspired by this book, I stopped settling in life and decided to live a better story. This led me to start my life and leadership coaching training.

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5 Words You Want to Hear When You’re Working Hard

His webinar made me cry. Sometime you don’t know the 5 words you want to hear until you hear them.

I was in the early stages of growing my coaching business and figuring out this online entrepreneurial world and the learning never seemed to end. Everything took longer than I expected. And often it was so hard to distinguish between busy work and the tasks that would actually make progress and impact.

In his webinar, online course creation guru Danny Iny told a story of a moment in the ear...

Empowering Authors: Overcoming Vulnerability vs Victim Mindset

As I wrote my book, Dare to Decide, I found myself faced with a challenge familiar to any new coach, leader or influencer when it’s time to step out with their message: vulnerability vs victim mindset. Knowing the difference, and addressing it accordingly, can make all the difference in how you show up to share your message—and how people respond to you.

Most of my 20s I spent feeling vulnerable, insecure and powerless. I didn’t realize until much later that I was stuck in a victim mindset.

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Crafting Lasting Impressions: How to Captivate and Connect with Readers

One evening, a bathroom tile taught me how to connect with readers if you want to write an unforgettable book.

I walked up the steps to the home where a local writers’ group was meeting. As I rapped on the door, I noticed a large white tile leaning against the brick exterior. Random. But something inside me twitched.

The tile reminded me of my family’s bathroom renovation project. The project started with my husband and I musing: “Let’s replace our cruddy shower surround and freshen up the...

To Self-Publish or Traditionally Publish: Vital Insights You Must Know

A Writer’s Dream: Your Published Book

As a teenager, plotting my fiction series and dreaming of being a published author one day, no one was asking whether to self-publish or traditionally publish a book.

You would order your copy of Writer’s Market or Christian Writer’s Market Guide for that year, and comb through listings of traditional publishers to find one that might accept your unsolicited manuscript. If you had high hopes of becoming a famous author, you would get the Guide to Liter...

Your Book Dream: How to Get Help From an Author Coach

So, you’ve got this brilliant message burning in your heart, huh? Maybe it’s a powerful framework that has helped your clients, or perhaps it’s a heartfelt memoir sharing your journey through overcoming adversity. Either way, you’re itching to get those thoughts out of your mind and onto the page. It sounds simple enough, especially if you feel God’s inspiring you to write it, doesn’t it? Just put words onto a page, reshape it with some editing, and hand it off to someone excited to publish. So,...

Getting Results with Your Book: How to Work with a Non-Fiction Author Coach

So, you’ve got this brilliant message burning in your heart, huh? Maybe it’s a powerful framework that has helped your clients, or perhaps it’s a heartfelt memoir sharing your journey through overcoming adversity. Either way, you’re itching to get those thoughts out of your mind and onto the page.

It sounds simple enough, especially if you feel God’s inspiring you to write it, doesn’t it? Just put words onto a page, reshape it with some editing, and hand it off to someone excited to publish. ...

Getting Results: How to Work with a Non-Fiction Author Coach

So, you’ve got this brilliant message burning in your heart, huh? Maybe it’s a powerful framework that has helped your clients, or perhaps it’s a heartfelt memoir sharing your journey through overcoming adversity. Either way, you’re itching to get those thoughts out of your mind and onto the page. It sounds simple enough, especially if you feel God’s inspiring you to write it, doesn’t it? Just put words onto a page, reshape it with some editing, and hand it off to someone excited to publish. So,...

Creativity and Courage: Discovering the Magic Beyond Perfection

Embracing Imperfection: My Editing Journey with Dare to Decide

I never imagined the thrill of handing off an imperfect early draft of my Dare to Decide book to my first beta reader. It felt like I had discovered magic beyond perfection. “Of course, it’s imperfect – it’s a draft,” you might be thinking. Yes, there were typos and missing words. I was okay with those because they would be fixed in the final drafts.

No, I’m talking about missing chunks in chapters and pages where I stopped mi...

7 Helpful Action Habits for the Procrastinating Perfectionist

Living in the tension between sharing your heart and message with excellence and knowing when you’ve given your best at the moment is a daily challenge for a procrastinating perfectionist. You certainly agree with the adage perfectionism is the enemy of progress, but there’s more to it than merely getting over the fear of failure.

You want people to know you care and that you’ve given your best. You hope people don’t judge or misunderstand you if you have to…

 leave your project or day job...