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Coaching for Transformation

Coaching for Transformation

If Coaching Was a Rom-Com Makeover When I hear the word "transformation" I picture the "ugly-girl" to "pretty-girl" makeover montage in a high school rom-com. But that's not what we're doing over in Kickstartology Coaching when I talk about transformation. At...

Looking for Clarity

Looking for Clarity

Clarity Feels Safe Pay special attention if you feel like you can't move forward because you need to do more research or you haven't made a plan yet. Clarity makes us feel safe but in the quest for clarity, there comes a point where the pursuit itself becomes a...

Looking For Inspiration

Looking For Inspiration

The Catalyst Inspiration is energizing and a catalyst for change but you can't just "find" it if you look hard enough. If you're looking for inspiration you're doing it wrong. It's not hiding in Costa Rica, or in your closet under the pile of clothes you've been...

How To Build Your Confidence

How To Build Your Confidence

By Stephanie J. Marshall, Toronto-based Master Alignment Coach Why Do You Want to Build Confidence? I've had so many women tell me that they need to build confidence because it's preventing them from achieving their goals or living life to the fullest, but when I ask...

Work-Life Balance Coaching

Work-Life Balance Coaching

By Stephanie J. Marshall, Toronto-based Master Alignment Coach The Benefits of Work-Life Balance Coaching  Are you feeling overwhelmed? Juggling between work and personal life can be exhausting, and it can be challenging to find the balance that leads to happiness and...

Motivated at Work?

Motivated at Work?

Do you know how many women waste years trying to convince themselves to be motivated before they finally admit to themselves that they are over it and open themselves up to something that does light them up? If you were to believe everything you read on LinkedIn you...

Building Self Discipline with the 3:33 Alarm

Building Self Discipline with the 3:33 Alarm

Why the 3:33 Alarm Helps Build Self-Discipline The 3:33 Alarm is a coaching tool to help you build self-discipline. It's useful because self-discipline is one of those things that's simple in theory but in practice, you need to go deep and learn to change your way of...

Getting Off an Emotional Roller Coaster

Getting Off an Emotional Roller Coaster

Craving Stability and Novelty We're built to crave the feeling of safety and comfort that we get from familiarity and certainty, and we especially crave it when it feels out of reach. But also, if we have too much of this familiarity and certainty for too long we get...

Coaching for Self-Judgement

Coaching for Self-Judgement

By Stephanie J. Marshall, Toronto-based Master Alignment Coach Is Being Hard on Yourself Working? Self-judgment is #3 on our list of the top 10 ways that intelligent women get in their own way. You might think that you have to be hard on yourself because you know you...

Keeping the Peace at the Expense of your own Inner-Peace

Keeping the Peace at the Expense of your own Inner-Peace

Keeping the Peace for People Pleasers and Conflict Avoiders People pleasing is one of the top 10 ways that women self-sabotage.  If you prioritize "keeping the peace" make sure you've considered your own inner peace. If you're holding back on account of "keeping the...

How to Try Harder

How to Try Harder

The Myth of "Trying Hard" Do you believe that if you just tried hard enough you would have everything under control? "Trying harder" is so ingrained in our movies and tv shows as the solution to everything. And it messes with us because it's total bullshit. It's not...

The First Law of Alignment

The First Law of Alignment

What Would be Different? Do you know what you want or just what you don't want? One of the questions that I ask every single person who books a coaching exploration call is this: "If we worked together and things went perfectly, how would your life be different in six...

The Cost of Feeling in Control

The Cost of Feeling in Control

The Feeling we Crave It feels so good but... Feeling in control isn't the same as being in control. One of my clients is going through some shit right now. She told me that she was trying to not think about it and just focusing on work because if she thought about it...

Stop Caring What Other People Think?

Stop Caring What Other People Think?

When You Want to Stop Caring About What Other People Think When it's a Problem If you do any of these you're spending too much time and mental energy worrying about what other people think: You're not doing something that you want to do because you're scared of people...

Setting Boundaries at Work

Setting Boundaries at Work

If You Don't Have Boundaries at Work... A frequently seen scenario:  Tell me if this is familiar: You're done for the day and looking forward to your evening when you get a work email from a college that has some questions they want to be answered ASAP. The questions...

Why Self-Image Coaching Impacts Everything

Why Self-Image Coaching Impacts Everything

Your Self-Image is More than Positive or Negative Your self-image is either helping you move in the direction you want to go or it's making it way more difficult than it needs to be. It could even be keeping you from thinking about trying. Is your self-image solid or...

Why Mindset is Useful: The Top 100 Things

Why Mindset is Useful: The Top 100 Things

Why Mindset is Important Your mindset is made up of all of your thoughts about the world, how it works, and what's possible, as well as your thoughts about yourself. It dictates how you see yourself and how you see the world.   100 Things You Can Do with Mindset...

Stop Spinning Thoughts with Mindset Work

Stop Spinning Thoughts with Mindset Work

The Power of Mindset Work: Rewiring Your Mind for Success Consider this: many people have frozen pork chops in their freezers without spiraling into drama. It's not the pork chops themselves that create the turmoil; it's our thoughts and perspectives about them....

Mindset Matters | The Practical Side and the Aligned Mind

Mindset Matters | The Practical Side and the Aligned Mind

WTF is a Mindset Reset and Why is it Practical? We think between 60,000-80,000 thoughts a day, and most of our brain activity is done on autopilot. If we had to question all of our thoughts we would be unable to function. Can you imagine? Do I like dogs?... Every time...