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…
Grab a cuppa, I want to tell you a story. On Monday afternoon this week (today’s Saturday), my husband and I had an argument. About what is a story for the next blog post, when it’ll be relevant to the story, but suffice to say, it was bad enough for 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…
At the end of 2015, I closed my first business to have my son. After six months of maternity leave, I felt lost and directionless. Full-time mothering wasn’t something I could do, I needed to use my brain for something more than learning how to activate nuts and brew kombucha. Read more…
Last Friday, I attended a free seminar by the Speaker’s Institute. Typically, these events spruik and splutter about how brilliant they are but don’t deliver tangible value. In this instance, I was pleasantly mistaken and left with techniques I’ve been able to apply straight away. What I also saw was Read more…
I just gave my friend Ruby a bit of coaching advice that I need to take myself. In answer to why she keeps putting off running her meditation classes, I asked her why she’s sabotaging her success. I asked her what benefit is she getting from not being successful and Read more…
In the back of my mind over the last few days has been wondering why I’m not motivated to aspire towards something truly great and world-changing. I once said I wanted to be the Australian, female Tony Robbins, but that isn’t true. I don’t want the team or the infrastructure Read more…
I have been asked to give a talk early next year to an association for women in IT. Long story short, the conversation I had with the organiser led me to seek a way to support more women find their voice when they find themselves as the only woman in Read more…
From the book, Before You Know It: The Unconscious Reasons We Do What We Do, by John Bargh, I learned about priming. Priming is a methodology that demonstrates how cultural ideologies and values operate unconsciously to influence a person’s judgements and behaviours. In the application of NLP, we know that the unconscious mind Read more…
I was coaching a woman in her 50s with a new sales technique, in the way she held her body, the language it spoke I knew that she wasn’t able to exhibit confidence because she didn’t believe she was enough. A man, head of his department of a national company, Read more…