On her Spotify exclusive podcast, Dare to Lead, Brene Brown discusses with the entrepreneurial professor and author, Jim Collins about values. He introduced to me the concept of a shadow value and defined his shadow value as the freedom to choose how he spends his time. This value resides beneath Read more…
It’s been more than six months since I’ve published. It feels like a lot longer. I’ve changed the direction of my life and my business. I’m no longer actively coaching, I will again, but for the time being, Coach Cazzie is on pause. The lessons I’ve learned in the past Read more…
Artificial intelligence (AI) isn’t coming. It’s here. These are AI-generated faces. She could be a model for a Pantene commercial. She’s flawless. She’s fake. Humans are being replaced by AI in companies all around the world. In roles that are customer service and administration based. In sales, finance and banking Read more…
#notababy If I’m being honest, I’m nervous about telling you the decision. In the three weeks since it was made, reality has hit home and the amount of work I need to do has become fully realised. It’s a lot. Can I do it?! But that’s the point of telling Read more…
How to achieve any goal To successfully achieve a goal, you need a few key ingredients. Beyond the idea of the outcome, you need a plan, actions and of course, my personal favourite, accountability. Before we get to that, you may want to take a detour to read, The decision Read more…
When you think of going out on your own in business, one of the first and most significant mistakes people make is not realising to the extent just how out on your own you really are. Cliche time: Running a business is hard Within the company structure, you have all Read more…
Goals are typically future-orientated, something to aspire and work towards. From the book, ‘Before You Know It: The Unconscious Reasons We Do What We Do,’ by John Bargh, I’m learning that we make micro-goals all the time. These micro-goals affect our present-time decision-making and impact future events without our conscious Read more…
A daily habit as I get ready in the morning is to ask the question, what problem do I have that one conversation today will bring me one step closer to its solution? Recently, I realised I had fallen out of this habit because I found myself after two weeks Read more…
Our representational system is our preferred way to communicate based on how we filter the sensory input from the world around us. We know that words are approximately 7% of what we communicate, and yet, what you’re going to learn here is how to communicate using words that are included Read more…
As an element of my Transition into Business Program, I take my clients through a really cool exercise I learned from Jack Delosa while at 2014 The Entourage’s Unconvention conference. I don’t know what Jack calls it but I’ve called it, The 3-2-1 Elevator Pitch. When we introduce ourselves, it’s common to answer the question, Read more…