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Start -> Grow -> Thrive!

When I wrote Start. Grow. Thrive: Build a Business to Last it was at the height of the pandemic. While the messages around seemed to be focused on survival, I was caught up with wondering what would it take to thrive?

Not just in business but in life.

While the protagonist in the book is a young man fresh out of community college, we see how his decisions and actions are underpinned by a desire to help both his mom and dad thrive too.

What does thriving look like for you?

For me, it means having...

Focus, An Essential Ingredient to Thrive

A friend posted on her status yesterday, “multi-tasking is such a scam”, and she’s right.

It is a terrible hoax that someone created maybe inadvertently to make us believe we could get more out of our day if we did multiple things at one time.

Except, it doesn’t work. Ask an overwhelmed mother.

We aren’t multi-tasking. We are really switching between multiple activities very quickly and it takes time for our brain to focus every time we ask it to switch between tasks.

Imagine your brain like the...

Noone Will Pay You That Here

No one will pay you that here!

I will never forget an opportunity that came my way when I’d moved to St. Kitts and was setting up my media business.

I’d been invited to set up a non-profit organisation and when I submitted my proposal for my monthly salary, the response I got back was “No one will pay you that here!”

This was over 20 years ago, and I don’t remember the exact figure, but I am sure it was not over $5000 EC monthly. I dare say it may even have been 3K.

I believed the man, rather th...

More Freedom, Focus & Finances in 2024 and Beyond

Ready to add more freedom, be more focused and increase your finances? I want to help.

The women who coach with me are usually on the cusp of leveling up and need support to get over that final hurdle, which is often a combination of fear, limiting beliefs and overwhelm.

I want to help you go the rest of the way. You are this close to seeing more of everything you desire to have in your life.

In our 60-minute session, I want to hear about your successes and challenges. We will discuss your curre...

More Freedom, Focus & Finances in 2024

I have reserved Wednesdays in December and January 2024 to offer one-on-one coaching sessions for women ready to add more freedom, be more focused and increase their finances in the coming year.

The women who coach with me are usually on the cusp of leveling up and need support to get over that final hurdle, which is often a combination of fear, limiting beliefs and overwhelm.

I want to help you go the rest of the way. You are this close to seeing more of everything you desire to have in your li...

#SundaySermon – As Big as You Make Him

How big is God? How big and wide His vast domain.
To try to tell, these lips can only start.
He’s big enough t o rule His mighty universe.
Yet small enough t o live within my heart! – Ray Price

If you’ve ever overheard little children talk about their dads or even their moms when they believe no adult is listening, you get an earful of how superhuman they make their parents.

They’ve got complete faith in our ability to leap tall buildings and make the impossible possible. That belief doesn’t reall...

#SundaySermon – Today’s Strength

More times than I care to admit even to myself, I have talked myself out of opportunities.

My mind finds every conceivable obstacle hidden in the opportunity and sends the signals that this is not a good idea. Failure seems inevitable, so don’t take it on.

It doesn’t take much to set my mind racing on all the negatives and the only way to stop it is to interrupt myself by opening my mouth and declaring the positive.

A few days ago, as I was out for a walk, my mind raced ahead to the return. Mont...

#SundaySermon – An Act of Trust

“I don’t trust you, God,” I said out loud.

It never crossed my mind that He would send a bolt of lightning or strike me down for my words. I had learned to be blatantly honest with Him, even about very personal woman stuff that I wouldn’t tell anyone else.

I told him, I felt like He had broken my heart. As if He was leading me from one disappointment to the next.

He was too still in moments I needed action. He was quiet when I needed His direction and assurance that He was with me through the ch...

#SundaySermon – Be Still

“In the silence is God.”

Those were the words I heard as I sat trying to quiet my mind.

I was sitting alone in my room at the domestic violence shelter I’d escaped to after another encounter with my ex-husband. I’d left the children with him, and I was terrified.

I knew they were safe. God had already assured me they would be, but I was afraid.

Not for their lives but for what would come next.

I felt lost.

All the work I had put into rebuilding our lives after my divorce had shattered and I was ...

#SundaySermon – What Do You Want?

“Jesus on the main line tell Him what you want!”

If you grew up in a tiny black church, then you heard that chorus sung in a Sunday night evangelistic service.

*recordscratch
Let me just pause and say I laugh at myself every time I create one of these posts, especially if it speaks about praying. I am not a prayer. At least that is what I always believed and used to say. I left praying for the experts. Those women who love midnight prayer meetings and spending hours in travail. But here we are....