Posts in Abundance in Everything
Unraveling Self-Stopping - Shaming

We’re going to tackle a big way you may be stopping yourself, and that’s shaming. You may know the work of Brené Brown. If you don’t, please check her out. She has so much to say from her research and her teaching about the effects of shaming. Shame is extremely toxic, and I want to talk about it so that you can locate where you may be shaming and stopping yourself.

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Is Your Business Talking to You?

Some of the most successful business owners I know communicate with their business regularly.

Sound strange?

Do you wonder why they do that and how?

What the business people who talk to their business tell me is that their business is an entity with intelligence and desires of its own. When they communicate with and listen to their business, they get new ideas and perspectives they would not have gotten without asking.

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Creating Freedom

It’s Summer Solstice here in the northern hemisphere. Lots is going on. You may feel upset by the news. I don’t follow the news real closely, but three different friends have told me about the situation with the children at the Mexican border and they’re highly upset. That got my attention. It got me to thinking, “What can we do? What can I do? I'm not an elected official. I'm not in Congress. I'm not the president. What can I do?”

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“I love you being you”

Last week I wrote about my realization of the many years spent trying to be “not me”. Trying to fit in, to do it “right”, to be approved of and included. A friend responded so generously with, “I love you being you.” Isn’t that a great message to receive? For sure, we women are encouraged, directed, and even programmed to be “not ourselves”. Whole industries – fashion, makeup, hair, diet, body image, etc. - and career directions are built on women fitting into certain norms and roles.

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Map to Authentic Sales Conversations

Join me this month for Abundance with Adele. It’s on Wednesday, April 25th at 11:45 am at the Frontier in Durham, NC. Grab your seat for free. Our topic is Sales Conversations, and I will give you a step-by-step map to conducting them in a way that is true to your personality and your values. I’ll teach you the best practices that work for me and my clients so be sure to be there!

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