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I Don’t Care If You’re Happy.
By Stephanie Marshall, Toronto based Master Alignment Coach Are You Happy This Second?The way we talk about being happy is misleading. Earlier today I said "I'm happy it's not raining so that I can work outside," but since taking my laptop outside a few hours ago I...
Tough Love Coaching
By Stephanie J. Marshall, Toronto-based Master Alignment Coach Tough love doesn't need to be mean. If you're beating yourself up about something and bossing yourself around, it isn't going to help you get the results you actually want. That doesn't mean that you need...
Craving Escape but Staying Stuck
By Stephanie Marshall, Toronto based Master Alignment Coach Don't make the same mistakes I did. Ten years ago I was driving home after Labour Day weekend at the cottage and the closer I got, the worse I felt. The end of summer meant back to "reality" and back to a job...
The Biggest Time Saver
By Stephanie Marshall, Toronto based Master Alignment Coach The quest for the biggest time saver will not lead you to an app, a planner, or even a system. Many people who are chronically stressed out by a lack of time get lost on that path and spend years hoping to...
Comedy Gold and our Thoughts in Coaching
By Stephanie Marshall, Toronto based Master Alignment Coach 'If they laugh it’s art, if they don’t laugh it’s therapy." - Mike Birbiglia, Consider what comes up when I ask you the following? How often do you judge yourself negatively, about what? When is the last time...
The Impact of Subconscious Beliefs
By Toronto Life & Mindset Alignment Coach Stephanie J. Marshall 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...
What Does Taking 100% Responsibility Mean?
By Nadine Araksi, Toronto-based Story 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 reacted in a meeting,...
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...
Group Coaching for Women: Five Things That Surprised Me
By Nadine Araksi, Toronto-based Story 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 former...
Mindset Work: How I Learned to Like My Job Again
By Nadine Araksi, Toronto-based Story 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 receiving bad...
How to Quit Diet Coke the Easy Way
By Stephanie J. Marshall, Toronto-based Master Alignment Coach How to Quit a Diet Coke Addiction Make it No Big Deal If you're a Diet Coke addict the idea of quitting is probably a HUGE deal, but thinking of it that way will only make it harder. I tried quitting many...
Is Your Fixing Things Habit a Problem?
By Nadine Araksi, Toronto-based Story 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 realized that no one was...
Stop People Pleasing and Choose Yourself
By Stephanie J. Marshall, Toronto-based Master Alignment CoachPeople pleasing is on our list of the top 10 ways that intelligent women self-sabotage. What is People Pleasing? People-pleasing is fundamentally a search for approval. We are wired to want to want others...
Another F’ing Blog Post
By Stephanie Marshall, Toronto based Master Alignment Coach Dramatic and Intriguing Title Dear [human who we are engaging with in order to be top-of-mind when you have that eureka moment about wanting to look into coaching to change your life], Have you noticed that...
How to Fail Better: Avoid one thing
By Stephanie Marshall, Toronto based Master Alignment Coach September 8th 2020: "Well that sucked.” -Stephanie J. Marshall I’m one of those people who is obsessed with the fall (for me it starts after Labour Day). It’s the real “new year” and it brings sweaters, new...
A Parent NOT Freaking Out about Back-To-School
By Nadine Araksi, Toronto-based Story Coach Like many of you, my kids have been home since March 13. After a spring of yelling at various members of this household to get on their Zoom calls, I have enjoyed a summer of leaving them to their own devices (literally),...
Body Image – Creating a Vision with the Alignment Framework
By Stephanie Marshall, Toronto based Master Alignment Coach Stephanie Tackles Body, Body Image, & Health Habits using the Kickstartology Alignment Framework Part 2 At least I don’t have thick ankles like Bathsheba Everdene. Let me back up. I always tell my...
Alignment Coaching Defined
Kickstartology is the original creator of The Alignment Coaching Framework. What is Alignment Coaching? When your habits, choices, and direction finally stop arguing, everything gets easier. Alignment coaching is what happens when your habits, decisions, and direction...
Body Image – Coaching Myself
By Stephanie Marshall, Toronto based Master Alignment Coach Stephanie Tackles Body, Body Image, & Health Habits using the Kickstartology Alignment Framework Part 1 I kind of feel gross in my body. I’ve been agonizing about how to start talking about this on...
What Did You Expect? Expectation Mindset Management
By Toronto Life & Mindset Alignment Coach Stephanie J. Marshall What do you Expect? Consider your work, your home, your physical fitness, your relationships, and your financial situation. Now, imagine it's six months from now. Now answer quickly using your gut...