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How Blind Hiring Creates MORE Unconscious Bias

Telling people to stop their biases often has the opposite result. Helping people notice their biases and blind spots helps them reflect and make a deliberate choice about their thoughts and behaviours towards others.

The Healing Power Of Complaining - And How To Complain Effectively

I’ve been talking about trauma and loss, so I want to talk about complaining.

We are experiencing a loss of freedom, connection and fear of economic fall during this pandemic. We are not used to this kind of prevalent, lengthy and collective grief in the air.

How To Stop Feeling Guilty For Not Accomplishing Enough And Get Through Crisis With Ease

What hurts us even more is our mental tail chasing: the guilt and the shame of falling off the wagon, or not being productive enough. We are conditioned to use time for something we can show for it, the result we can see, count and measure.

Coaching Is Not Advice Giving

She has been with me through times of my life when I’ve felt most volatile. She’s helped my walk through many uncertainties and helped me make some life-altering decisions. We rocked and plowed through a lot of shit together! Then I fired her. I had to.

What Your Desires Really Mean

If you don’t trust yourself to show up fully in a certain situation or environment, you won’t feel confident in it. Lack of confidence is conditioned into you by years of mindless practice of not being your full and true self. By self protecting, plying small, hiding, pretending, performing, perfecting and comparing.

Confidence is EVERYTHING, but what is it?

6 Ways To See Through The Posers And Find A Real Coach

Everyone's a coach now! My Instagram feed doesn’t lie. Coaches for this, and coaches for that. They are everywhere! Health coaches, life coaches, business coaches, fitness coaches, relationship coaches, wealth coaches. And I love this one: lifestyle coaches, e.i. undercover network marketers.

A Major Key Khaled Is Missing

Khaled’s social media celebrity has outpaced his music fame. Besides his aphorisms, Khaled’s I don’t know to laugh-at or laugh-with renewable content and rescuing the key emoji from a complete ambiguity, Khaled ‘s influence on American society is palpable. The key question is, what kind of influence?

I Am In The Miracle Business

I had no idea I would be in the restaurant business. After arriving in NYC with no contacts, only $40 to my name and absolutely no English skills, my first job in the restaurant business was as a bartender in one of Brooklyn’s busiest restaurants in 2002.