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Develop the 5 Emotional Intelligence skills that will help you feel empowered to step up and speak out!

I love learning and experimenting with new ways to help those who work with me rediscover their inner power and feel more empowered as female professionals to fight for the career they want and deserve. One of the topics that fascinate me is Emotional Intelligence (EI). Some research suggests that women achieve higher scores than […]

7 Confident Body Language Cues Every Woman Should Know and Practice

Even if you don’t feel confident, you can boost your self-esteem and feel better if you practice confident body language. Here are 7 tips you can try: Look up and look directly – looking up and directly at the other person’s eyes (for about 60% of the time) shows that you are open to dialogue […]

5 mistakes we make when we think about personal development

Do you commit to too many learning and training programmes because you feel you don’t know enough? I’d imagine that when you do, you’re unable to complete everything and end up feeling guilty. I’m guessing you try to do a bit of everything here and there because you don’t want the money spent to go […]

Fear? I was not afraid. I was petrified!

I was about to lose everything – my car, house, business and income. I felt fear and shame. I had failed. Failed as an entrepreneur and businesswoman. As a mother, my biggest fear was being unable to provide for my son, and I felt like it was becoming a reality. I was petrified! This usually […]

Are your beliefs limiting you? The answer is probably YES!

One of my mentors, the great personal development teacher Bob Proctor once said this about beliefs: “It appears there are guards commissioned by a higher authority to arrest any progress in a person’s life beyond the person’s level of belief”. Understanding the problem We all have our belief system, developed since we were born, through […]

How to choose: A quick guide to improving your decision-making skills

Today, I woke up feeling extremely grateful that I am free to choose! According to the Cambridge dictionary, the word choice means “an act or the possibility of choosing”. Most of us take our ability to make our own decisions for granted. We make thousands of choices daily using mental shortcuts created over the years […]