Category: Life Stories and Insights

Pensions seem constantly to be in the news, usually making bad headlines. Scandals are typically of two types: defined-benefit schemes breaking their pension promises, and individual savers in all types of scheme being scammed out of their money. Although big news when it happens, most defined-benefit schemes do not fail and, where they do, there…

Pension schemes you arrange for yourself are always defined-contribution pensions, so all of the information in the last four sections applies (except there are usually no employer contributions). Anyone can have a pension scheme, and anyone else can pay into it for you – for example, if you’re caring for children or doing other unpaid…

When I called out those things and heard them echo back, I jumped up and down. I fist pumped the air. I whooped for joy. Seriously. Anyone watching me must’ve thought I was crazy. But I didn’t care—the excitement was real! I was getting emotionally connected to my goal. I was getting it into my…

A few years ago, a successful Manhattan realtor named Amy came to see me. She needed help, she told me, managing the high stress of her job. But the more she talked about her work, life, and family, the more I came to suspect it wasn’t work that was stressing her out. No, there was…

But Which One Should I Choose? There Are a Hundred Things I Could Do You might have several things you want to work on. That’s great! For now, I encourage you to choose one. You can use the Mindset Reset process again and again, anytime, with any goal. The more you do each of these…

Shauna had found what I like to call her Pearl. Picture this: an oyster, minding its own little oyster business, somewhere on the ocean floor. A current in the water disturbs the sand around it, and a single grain gets lodged in its shell. The oyster has no way to get rid of it, so…

A few years ago, I had the privilege of working with Shauna, a stay-at-home mom whose dreams of going back to work had begun to feel impossible. “I left my career in finance eleven years ago to raise my children. When they were old enough, I started to homeschool them, ” she told me during…

I hope it will be impossible for you to read this book sitting down. Okay, not literally. But kind of. Throughout this book, I am going to do everything in my power to get you out of your seat. Why? Because sitting is a big part of what helps us go nowhere—or feel like we’re…

Stephen launched his business. I began prepping to launch mine. I knew I wanted to help people get unstuck in their lives, and I knew that both movement and mindset were essential to making real change. How could I use what I’d learned to help others? I started experimenting with different ideas based on my…

Years later, as I sat in the car with Stephen, all this came flooding back. The weight of failure—which I knew all too well—looked like it was crushing the talented, driven man I loved. Sonia, I told myself. You’ve been there before. This is exactly why you became a coach. Do something! “It’s just so…