Coaching Archives — EMMpress https://www.emmpress.com/category/coaching/ words and images for mindful humans Sun, 11 Oct 2026 18:36:14 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.4 https://www.emmpress.com/wp-content/uploads/cropped-Screenshot-2026-03-10-at-12.16.43-PM-32x32.png Coaching Archives — EMMpress https://www.emmpress.com/category/coaching/ 32 32 Three phrase philosophy for hosting quality community events https://www.emmpress.com/three-phrase-philosophy-for-hosting-quality-community-events/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=three-phrase-philosophy-for-hosting-quality-community-events Sun, 11 Oct 2026 18:14:59 +0000 https://www.emmpress.com/?p=20000 And defining some roles while I’m at it. Every large-scale event has a producer. Producers are people who brings teams together, pays artists, hires contractors, handles grounds, fencing,…

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]]> Passion, Practice, Project https://www.emmpress.com/passion-practice-project/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=passion-practice-project Sun, 27 Sep 2026 21:25:40 +0000 https://www.emmpress.com/?p=19849 How to create measurable success when your midlife situation or livelihood gets badly busted. I’m in midlife, and apparently, most people are doing this sh1tshow better than me.…

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]]> Business, the formula https://www.emmpress.com/business-the-formula/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=business-the-formula Thu, 13 Aug 2026 18:49:26 +0000 https://www.emmpress.com/?p=19263 After running a small business for 25+ years and having at least one side gig since I was 16, I’ve figured out a few things about business, yet…

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]]> Valuing your values – a mini workshop in a post https://www.emmpress.com/valuing-your-values-a-mini-workshop/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=valuing-your-values-a-mini-workshop Sat, 14 Mar 2026 20:14:00 +0000 https://www.emmpress.com/?p=14628 Many moons ago I crewed for a personal development coach in Hawaii and both coasts. I used to help usher folks across beds of hot coals and jump…

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]]> Living Legacy™ and loving turns of phrase https://www.emmpress.com/living-legacy-and-loving-turns-of-phrase/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=living-legacy-and-loving-turns-of-phrase Sun, 14 Dec 2025 13:05:06 +0000 https://www.emmpress.com/?p=14859 I love turns of phrase, especially those that are, by their nature, contradictory. Living Legacy is one like this. Legacy, by definition, has to do with what you…

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]]> The toilet in my back yard https://www.emmpress.com/the-toilet-in-my-back-yard/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-toilet-in-my-back-yard Fri, 20 Jun 2025 18:45:20 +0000 https://www.emmpress.com/?p=13110 And the knowing that comes from an ‘in house’ metaphor. Last month, we cashed in some Apple shares to have a friend’s brother fix our bathroom. The floor…

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]]> making one’s own language https://www.emmpress.com/im-making-my-own-language/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=im-making-my-own-language Sun, 25 May 2025 10:51:04 +0000 https://www.emmpress.com/?p=12701 Correspondence, energy, and how to gain self-awareness through making your language, your way. Actually, I’m working on more of symbol set, but that’s semantics for you. This SymbolWorkTM…

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]]> Judging or Perceiving | Collector or Renunciate? https://www.emmpress.com/judging-or-perceiving-collector-or-renunciate/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=judging-or-perceiving-collector-or-renunciate Mon, 12 May 2025 15:24:18 +0000 https://www.emmpress.com/?p=12098 Dualistic Mindsets in Myers Briggs and other such things I have a judgy mind. And if you’ve done a Myers-Briggs test and landed squarely with a “J” in…

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]]> Empathy isn’t pathology, Mr. Musk https://www.emmpress.com/empathy-aint-pathos-mr-musk-or-anyone-who-gets-it/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=empathy-aint-pathos-mr-musk-or-anyone-who-gets-it Fri, 11 Apr 2025 18:06:20 +0000 https://www.emmpress.com/?p=11559 If you are feeling a bit too much empathy, and it has you on the floor feeling terrible, don’t go to war with it, up-level it into compassion.…

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]]> Networking with a beginner’s mind https://www.emmpress.com/formal-networking-from-a-beginners-mind/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=formal-networking-from-a-beginners-mind Thu, 10 Apr 2025 15:58:37 +0000 https://www.emmpress.com/?p=11448 Backdrop: In 20+ years of my marketing business, I didn’t need to “do networking” because the right people found me at the right times, and my business (and…

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]]> intersection of marketing and operations: digital concierge https://www.emmpress.com/intersection-of-marketing-and-operations-having-a-digital-business-concierge/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=intersection-of-marketing-and-operations-having-a-digital-business-concierge Fri, 04 Apr 2025 17:33:23 +0000 https://www.emmpress.com/?p=11342 Key evaluations you need to make before you add any more digital marketing into your life. How many times has someone told you you need a better landing…

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]]> Open Hope https://www.emmpress.com/open-hope/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=open-hope Fri, 21 Mar 2025 15:27:12 +0000 https://www.emmpress.com/?p=11127 Not everyone grew up with the privilege of taking Hope for granted. Hope is a thing of children, even in rough places. It’s a thing of the child…

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]]> High Commitment to a Low Standard https://www.emmpress.com/high-commitment-to-a-low-standard/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=high-commitment-to-a-low-standard Tue, 18 Mar 2025 16:37:18 +0000 https://www.emmpress.com/?p=11076 A way to make and sustain great habits. I’m pretty much sure we’ve all heard the adage “practice makes perfect.” And then as adults we recognized that perfection…

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]]> Designer Questions to Engineer Endurance, Achievement, and Happiness https://www.emmpress.com/designer-questions-to-engineer-endurance-achievement-and-happiness/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=designer-questions-to-engineer-endurance-achievement-and-happiness Tue, 11 Mar 2025 20:11:21 +0000 https://www.emmpress.com/?p=10856 Focusing your attention on long-acting, feeling-based, style-specific questions can give you a richer and happier experience of life. What I love about this process is that anyone can…

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]]> Truth telling in little bits https://www.emmpress.com/truth-telling-in-little-symbol-bits/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=truth-telling-in-little-symbol-bits Sun, 02 Mar 2025 20:33:26 +0000 https://www.emmpress.com/?p=10789 Focus, the folly of first-ness, and how symbolic truth-telling connects us to our souls and each other. If any one artist works with the truth of their lives,…

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]]> Helping the Helpers: methodology and pitfalls https://www.emmpress.com/helping-the-helpers-methodology-and-pitfalls/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=helping-the-helpers-methodology-and-pitfalls Sun, 02 Mar 2025 13:15:22 +0000 https://www.emmpress.com/?p=10656 Like many people, I’ve wanted to make a huge positive impact, but unlike others, I haven’t wanted to be directly acknowledged for doing it, because I’m uncomfortable with…

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]]> Renaissance Warriors https://www.emmpress.com/renaissance-warriors/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=renaissance-warriors Mon, 24 Feb 2025 19:27:13 +0000 https://www.emmpress.com/?p=10632 I’m going to tell you right now that you are a modern day Renaissance Warrior. This is because you can do many, many things very well. This includes…

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]]> What if I can’t… https://www.emmpress.com/what-if-i-cant/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=what-if-i-cant Wed, 19 Feb 2025 17:56:21 +0000 https://www.emmpress.com/?p=10447 What to do when your values thwart change, and a footnote about how no-brand branding is already here. Ever feel woefully self-aware and stuck all at once? I’ve…

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]]> A Prompt for Nature Knowledge https://www.emmpress.com/a-prompt-for-nature-knowledge/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=a-prompt-for-nature-knowledge Wed, 05 Feb 2025 20:01:29 +0000 https://www.emmpress.com/?p=10106 Some days I walk through the woods and wonder “what is nature telling me today?” The answers are always simple. Nature tells me that old needles fall off,…

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]]> Take back the alphabet & re-write your life https://www.emmpress.com/take-back-the-alphabet-and-re-write-your-life/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=take-back-the-alphabet-and-re-write-your-life Mon, 27 Jan 2025 21:32:39 +0000 https://www.emmpress.com/?p=9888 How work with the most basic building blocks in order to elevate your communication. I’ve always seen the alphabet as a beautiful grouping of shapes and fascinating set…

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]]> What are your Grace Goals today? https://www.emmpress.com/grace-goals/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=grace-goals Fri, 24 Jan 2025 17:26:22 +0000 https://www.emmpress.com/?p=9834 It’s Sunday morning in America1 and the texts from family & friends are coming in. “How can we get through?”“I’m freaking out inside.”“It’s like the last day before…

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]]> Artful Advertising https://www.emmpress.com/empress-to-impress-intentional-advertising/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=empress-to-impress-intentional-advertising Tue, 14 Jan 2025 19:07:41 +0000 https://www.emmpress.com/?p=9548 If you lay down your META or Google targeted ad sets like blankets of loveliness across the web– regardless of your product, service or event – your content…

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]]> Orienting a Day https://www.emmpress.com/orienting-a-day/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=orienting-a-day Thu, 26 Dec 2024 14:07:30 +0000 https://www.emmpress.com/?p=9246 I love the term orientation. It’s connected to my past and my future. And now all at once. The days I choose to orient around “love” or “hope,”…

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]]> Mission: Good Will Ambassador https://www.emmpress.com/mission-good-will-ambassador/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=mission-good-will-ambassador Sat, 21 Dec 2024 22:58:08 +0000 https://www.emmpress.com/?p=9194 Writing a mission statement, and how waiting tables is as fine an ambassadorship as any outside post. Demystifying entity-speak: Mission & Vision Statements In corporate America, mission and…

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]]> project project & on demand on you https://www.emmpress.com/project-project-on-demand-on-you/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=project-project-on-demand-on-you Sun, 24 Nov 2024 13:55:58 +0000 https://www.emmpress.com/?p=8410 This is about putting the marketing cart before the horse with Human Design, and it apparently working.1 Oh yes, and moonlighting…And examining why anyone would put pressure on…

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]]> The Living Legacy™ Worksheet https://www.emmpress.com/living-legacy-worksheet/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=living-legacy-worksheet Sat, 07 Sep 2024 11:28:57 +0000 https://www.emmpress.com/?p=6772 What if you could discover your life’s natural purpose in 5 minutes? This is the original Living Legacy Worksheet, written around Y2K. I just had fun filling it…

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]]> always be moonlighting https://www.emmpress.com/always-be-moonlighting/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=always-be-moonlighting Fri, 09 Aug 2024 15:57:51 +0000 https://www.emmpress.com/?p=6267 I’ve had many jobs in my life. Usually two at once. Sometimes even three. It’s been helpful to always be moonlighting at all my jobs, because it offered…

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]]> Your ordinary, extraordinary life https://www.emmpress.com/your-ordinary-extraordinary-life/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=your-ordinary-extraordinary-life Tue, 16 Jul 2024 13:11:31 +0000 https://www.emmpress.com/?p=6192 There is a form if you’d like to share on this topic below. The first part of my life, I wanted to be extraordinary. Driven by a distant…

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]]> Idealism, burnout, and collaborative missions https://www.emmpress.com/idealism-burnout-and-collaborative-missions/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=idealism-burnout-and-collaborative-missions Thu, 20 Jun 2024 16:59:47 +0000 https://www.emmpress.com/?p=5512 I’ve needed to abruptly quit a few things in my life. And each time, my departures have left people confused. In general, I’m an upbeat worker, definitely a…

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]]> Speculation vs Decision: guarantee certainty and mitigate risk by front-loading choices https://www.emmpress.com/speculation-vs-decision-guarantee-certainty-and-mitigate-risk-by-front-loading-choices/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=speculation-vs-decision-guarantee-certainty-and-mitigate-risk-by-front-loading-choices Mon, 10 Jun 2024 15:54:45 +0000 https://www.emmpress.com/?p=5259 My eleven year old wakes up early and likes to go on woods-walks with me most days before school. Today, we figured out when choosing between two potential…

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]]> Taking a Hot Second to do The Work https://www.emmpress.com/taking-a-hot-second-to-do-the-work/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=taking-a-hot-second-to-do-the-work Sun, 09 Jun 2024 19:12:44 +0000 https://www.emmpress.com/?p=5220 I’ve come to know Byron Katie’s The Work as a strategic identity cleanse, a chance to remove harmful beliefs with surgical precision. If you don’t have time or…

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]]> So, just how do you sleep at night? https://www.emmpress.com/so-just-how-can-you-sleep-at-night/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=so-just-how-can-you-sleep-at-night Fri, 05 Apr 2024 13:48:17 +0000 https://www.emmpress.com/?p=4958 One of these Master Class titles floated through my social media feed that says you should talk to yourself like a friend. Since I’ve been awakening to the…

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]]> Archive: Life Coaching Articles https://www.emmpress.com/life-coaching-article-worksheet-archive/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=life-coaching-article-worksheet-archive Fri, 29 Dec 2023 17:03:19 +0000 https://www.emmpress.com/?p=3293 Yes, there are archives inside archives. lol In the interest of preserving more embarrassing, and sometimes helpful, writings below are archival links to my old “Ideas of the…

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