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Why You Don’t Follow Through
Stop gaslighting yourself to start following through Not following through is one of the top ten ways that women get in their own way. Has this ever happened to you? It's Sunday night and you decide that this week you're going to start working out again. You find time...
Natalia Lobach: Kickstartology Client Spotlight
How deciding on "one small step" daily helped Natalia Lobach chart her course and set sail Natalia Lobach, an amateur pickle champion, mom, and all-around fun-loving person, came to Kickstartology after founding Charthouse Advisory Services — a consultancy that helps...
Coaching for Perfectionists
What Perfectionism Looks Like Perfectionism is one of the top ten ways that women get in their own way. You might not know you're a perfectionist because you're thinking that you don't do things perfectly all the time or because you may be a perfectionist in some...
Alignment Coaching for Weightloss
By Stephanie J. Marshall, Toronto-based Master Alignment Coach Why The Next 10 Pounds? Last May I decided I was sick of complaining about my jeans being tight and I used the Alignment Coaching tools to lose 10 pounds fairly easily over a few months. I've kept it off,...
Coaching is Experiential Learning
By Stephanie J. Marshall, Toronto-based Master Alignment Coach The Limits of Studying What if I decided right now that I was going to learn how to cook? Now if I began listening to all of the cooking podcasts, watching cooking shows, collecting recipes, and buying...
Playing it Safe Is Dangerous
By Stephanie J. Marshall, Toronto-based Master Alignment Coach Choosing the Terror over Safety At 6:55pm on Saturday night, I was the most terrified I've been in a long time. I was about to step on stage to perform seven minutes of new stand-up material including some...
Getting In Your Own Way Looks Like This
Getting in Your Own Way Looks Like: Kickstartology Coaching is designed to help you get out of your own way. What does that mean exactly? There are so many ways to get in your own way, and we even have a list of the top 10 ways that women get in their own way. But how...
Coaching for Self-Doubt
By Stephanie J. Marshall, Toronto-based Master Alignment Coach Is Self-Doubt Why You Don't Try? Self-doubt is #4 on our list of the top 10 ways that intelligent women get in their own way. What have you never pursued only because you weren't sure if you could pull it...
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. I used to think that I had to be hard on myself because I knew I could...
10 Life-Changing Benefits of Group Coaching You Never Imagined
What are the benefits of online group coaching for women? Why do women join an online group coaching program, anyway? You're tired of feeling tired and want to feel more energized. You're annoyed with often being frustrated with yourself for your choices. You're an...
Coaching for Indecision
By Stephanie J. Marshall, Toronto-based Master Alignment Coach What causes indecision? Indecisiveness is #2 on our list of the top 10 ways that intelligent women get in their own way. Decision-making is a big deal since your current life is the result of all of your...
Andrea Pilati: Kickstartology Client Spotlight
We lost Andrea too soon, July 2023. --- Reminder: It's (almost) never too late When the vivacious Andrea Pilati got diagnosed with a terminal disease, she went through what most of us might: depression about needing to stop working and the loss of her professional...
Coaching For Overthinking
By Stephanie J. Marshall, Toronto-based Master Alignment Coach Overthinking Keeps You Stuck Overthinking is one of the top 10 ways that women get in their own way. It's defined as "overthinking" when the thinking is no longer helping you and one of the following...
Top 10 Ways Women Get In Their Way
By Stephanie J. Marshall, Toronto-based Master Alignment Coach How Do You Get In Your Own Way When I'm on a consult call with someone and I ask what their biggest obstacle is, often they say "I am". And they're frustrated because getting in your own way sucks up a lot...
Boost Your Self-Confidence in 4 Easy Steps – A Guide for Women Prone to Overthinking
By Nadine Araksi, Toronto-based Story Coach How do you build self-confidence? Are you tired of feeling insecure, unworthy, or inferior? Do you struggle to assert yourself, speak up, or pursue your dreams? If so, you're not alone. Many women face challenges when it...
The Making Change Game Changer
By Stephanie J. Marshall, Toronto-based Master Alignment Coach Fastest Way To Drive New Action If you want to change something and create new results fast, the first thing to do is NOT to make a list or schedule. These things feel like "taking action," but you will...
Overcoming Self-Judgement: How to Stop Being Your Own Worst Critic
By Nadine Araksi, Toronto-based Story Coach Self-judgement is one of the most common and destructive forms of negative self-talk, and it affects millions of people worldwide. TRUTH: We're all a$$holes to ourselves sometimes. We all have an inner voice that speaks to...
The Willpower Problem
By Stephanie J. Marshall, Toronto-based Master Alignment Coach Have you ever blamed a failure to follow through on a lack of willpower? The willpower problem is rarely that you don't have it. Maybe the problem is that you have too much willpower. People think they...
Holiday Season Stress Strategies
By Nadine Araksi, Toronto-based Story Coach You better not cry A pre-game primer for Festivus Here we goooooo! You've worked hard all year. You've been reading our posts, doing the program or various workshops, and you now have more tools in your kit than one of...
When Choices Don’t Feel Like A Choice
By Stephanie J. Marshall, Toronto-based Master Alignment Coach The Perfect Holidays in Three Easy Steps: How to enjoy the holidays as much as the people in holiday movies in three easy steps: Buy a really big house and decorate it extensively Create some family drama...