Career Coaching

Love and Personal Goals: Balancing Ambition and Relationships

What’s the one thing that all successful people have in common? It’s not good looks, great hair, or a trust fund. The real secret to success is successful relationships – both on the surface, and at a deeper level. A recent meta-analysis...
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Advice from the Life Coach: How to Live Your Colorful Life

The memorable moment in the classic film “The Wizard of Oz” when everything transforms from black and white to vibrant color is part of our cultural lexicon. This pivotal scene occurs when Dorothy cautiously opens the door and steps outside,...
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7 Key Practices to Cultivate Lifelong Learning

In Washington, D.C., many of the people who come to me for life coaching have impressive college and graduate school degrees. The trouble is, these degrees and past educational accomplishments aren’t necessarily helping them now. Men and women who...
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How Relationships Have Shifted Post-COVID, and What You Can Do About It

Before the pandemic, most of us did not spend a whole lot of time evaluating our social interactions. Meeting up with friends and family was sometimes fraught for other reasons, but certainly, nothing like the health-related existential worry about getting...
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How to Take Bold Action in the Face of Uncertainty

How can you be bold in the face of change and uncertainty? How can you take risks, be courageous and confident even when nothing is certain? Is it even possible to move forward right now with your head held high? What does “being bold” mean...
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Life Coaching to Build Courage: COVID Changes

Before I have a complimentary session with possible clients I send them three questions to answer. One of the questions is: What is getting in the way of reaching your goal? Here are several answers I have received to that question: I don’t have...
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The DC Life Coach: Thoughts on Productivity During the Global Pandemic

If you’re at all like me right now, you’re in a bit of a struggle. Here in Washington, DC, we have been in lockdown for the COVID-19 pandemic for over a month. I have read several articles about productivity. Some say, let go of productivity....
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On Climbing Life’s “2nd Mountain”

Life coaching case studies: three women in their 50s Catharine Ecton helped to climb life's "second mountain." Learn how life coaching with the DC Life Coach could help you.
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How to Make Your Own Luck

I am a great believer in luck. The harder I work, the more of it I seem to have.” – Coleman Cox, 1922 When it comes to achieving success in business, relationships, our personal health or family life, luck has this amazing ability to show up after all...
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