High School Reunion – Excavating Subconscious Beliefs
By Stephanie Marshall, Toronto based Master Alignment Coach 30 Years After High School Graduation I went to my 30-year high school reunion a few weeks ago. It was surprisingly delightful and intimate considering the Zoom venue. Maybe that's because on Zoom people...
What Does Taking 100% Responsibility Mean?
By Nadine Araksi Silverthorne, Toronto-based Storytelling Coach Blame vs. taking 100 percent responsibility What does it mean to take 100 percent responsibility for your results? A few weeks ago, I caught myself complaining about work. I didn’t like the way someone...
Building New Habits: Discover What’s Keeping You Stuck
By Nadine Silverthorne, Toronto-based Story Coach Getting unstuck when building new good habits “Be careful what you practice, you’re going to get really good at it.” In the past when I've caught myself trying to build new habits, I often struggled to figure out what...
Do Vision Boards Work for Manifesting?
By Stephanie Marshall, Toronto based Master Alignment Coach Do You Use Vision Boards? I get asked if vision boards work for manifesting, and like any good question, the answer is "it depends". I want my clients to aim high, to imagine what’s possible, set audacious...
Exhausted from Uncertainty Fatigue
By Stephanie Marshall, Toronto based Master Alignment Coach So Much Uncertainty Of course, many of us are exhausted from uncertainty fatigue. It's our first global pandemic and no one was training for it. So much has changed, for example, a year ago most of us in...
Group Coaching for Women: Five Things That Surprised Me
By Nadine Silverthorne, Toronto based Storyteller Coach I Was a Client First I started as a client of Kickstartology’s Online Group Coaching for Women program over two years ago. At this time Stephanie J. Marshall was coaching on her own as Plaid Paddle. Stephanie, a...
Is Online Dating a Waste of Time for you?
By Stephanie Marshall, Toronto based Master Alignment Coach People Remember Drama Online dating has a bad PR problem. Their marketing isn't helping because in their advertising they try so hard to have the people look like "diverse normal people" that it just winds up...
Mindset Work: How I Learned to Like My Job Again
By Nadine Silverthorne, Toronto based Storyteller Coach If I’m honest, I’ve been feeling blah about work this year and it hasn’t felt like me. Know the feeling? I’m the cheerleader, the hype girl! But I lost my mojo in 2020. For months it felt as though we were...
Resetting Habits | Are you doing it wrong?
By Stephanie J. Marshall, Toronto based Alignment Life Coach The Annual Habit Resets How great are your intentions? Do you make bold promises to yourself about resetting habits and not follow through? How many "shoulds" do you leave on the table every year? It's that...
How to Quit Diet Coke the Easy Way
By Stephanie J. Marshall, Toronto based Alignment Life Coach How I made quitting a 30 year Diet Coke Addiction habit no big deal: If I’m going to be dramatic about something I want it to be interesting, and quitting a Diet Coke addiction is not interesting. I’ve tried...
Is Your Fixing Things Habit a Problem?
By Nadine A. Silverthorne, Toronto based Master Storytelling Coach The Fixing Things Habit My kids, 13 and almost 16, are supposed to get up on their own between 7 and 7:30 a.m. to get ready for school. Around 8:15 a.m. last Monday when I was on a call with Steph I...
Reset for 2021
Kickstart 2021 | Shake it Off Reset | Refocus | RechargeBy Stephanie J. Marshall, Toronto based Alignment Life Coach Reset for 2021 Looks Different Let’s check to see if we’re on the same page. This isn’t going to sound very “coachy” but here we go. I’m not in the...