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The UNMUTED Blog
3 Ways to Unmute Yourself @ Work: Elevate Your Confidence and Courage to Amplify Your Career
Struggling with self-doubt and stagnation at work? Keep reading to learn how to elevate your confidence and courage to accelerate your career.
How I Became a Professional Keynote Speaker
I’m often asked how I got into this work of full-time keynote speaking. This is my long and winding road story to get to this destination doing the work I was called to do!
The Story of Somebody: A 30-Year Dream Comes True
We’re not meant to keep our dreams locked inside of us. We’re meant to live with joyful aliveness and self-expression, sharing our voice and our gifts with the world. Here’s how I did that with the release of my first song, Somebody.
The Power of Regret: 4 Ways Looking Back Can Move Us Forward
How often do you look back on your life and wish you’d done things differently? How often do you experience regret? Regret is an emotional state most of us try to avoid, but what if it could teach us something? What if there was power in looking back as a way to move forward? Daniel Pink’s book, The Power of Regret, shows us how.
5 Simple Ways to Promote + Advance Yourself at Work (without Being a Jerk)
If you struggle with recognizing your successes or celebrating yourself and your wins AND you want to advance in your career, then this is for you!
11 Prompts to Spark Connection + Trust with Your Team
People leave COMPANIES; they don’t leave COMMUNITIES.
If YOU or your team are struggling with engagement, connection and trust, check out these 11 prompts that can help you spark all three!
Invisible Backpacks: What Are You Carrying?
When we experience loss, grief and trauma and feel sad, we often try to numb it or distract ourselves from it. We silence or suppress how we’re feeling 🤫
But all of our emotions want and need a voice. They want to be expressed. They want to be unmuted.
3 Ways to Reset Your Mindset to Find Peace Amid Change
Do you want more peace of mind right now? Here’s a simple way to shift your mindset. We've been through a LOT of change over the past two years, and most of those changes we didn't choose.
We've felt overwhelmed, anxious, burned out and frustrated - anything but peaceful. Peace and calm have been elusive for many of us. But they don't have to be.
Disconnect to Reconnect: How I Take Guilt-Free Vacations (and Truly Check Out)
Is it hard for you to take time off and TRULY disconnect? Do you sometimes feel guilty or distracted when you want to and know you "should" be present with your loved ones?
So many of us struggle to set work aside and take the PTO. More than HALF of Americans leave vacation days on the table every year, and that number is on the rise.
What's Beneath Burnout: Finding Meaning in the Mess
I never used to share stuff like this because I was afraid of what people would think if they knew the truth about who I was. Now I feel compelled to share stories like this one because I know vulnerability is an act of courage.
Five years ago, I burned out and bottomed out. But that 𝙗𝙧𝙚𝙖𝙠𝙙𝙤𝙬𝙣 led to one of the greatest 𝙗𝙧𝙚𝙖𝙠𝙩𝙝𝙧𝙤𝙪𝙜𝙝𝙨 of my life.
7 Simple Strategies to Shake Off Stress
If you’ve been feeling stressed lately, here is a release valve! If you've been carrying tension in your body and mind, here are seven simple strategies to discharge it.
To "shake it off" I used all of these techniques in my journey to recover from burnout five years ago, and I’ve been using them a LOT over the past two years.
We Don't Talk about Burnout, No, No, No!
I wasn't supposed to talk about it. Few of us feel like we can talk about it, especially at work.
When we're burned out, we normalize feeling depleted all the time, and joy feels like an elusive indulgence. We try to talk ourselves out of pausing, resting, recalibrating and asking for help and keep pushing ourselves.
My Immunity to Change Journey: The Root of Burnout
I didn’t see it coming. I didn’t know I needed it.
But when the student is ready, the teacher will appear.
This is, perhaps, my most honest and exposing post, but I felt compelled to share my journey to give you courage to share yours.
6 Powerful Questions to Activate Your Confidence and Clarity
If you're feeling stuck, want greater clarity, desire to grow personally and professionally and are looking to build your confidence, then this article is for YOU. I've been asked countless questions in my life, and I wanted to share some of the most powerful ones with you today.
Forbes Names Rachel Druckenmiller a Next1000 Honoree for 2021
Rachel Druckenmiller has been recognized by Forbes as a Next1000 Honoree for 2021, honoring trailblazing entrepreneurs who are making an impact.
Mindset Reset: Take Back Control of Your Mind
Have you found yourself spiraling into negativity lately? If you have, you’re not alone. In this post, I share some insights to help you give yourself a bit more compassion, so you can more confidently and effectively navigate life’s challenges.
3 Steps to Manage Your Mindset: Let Be, Let Go, Let In
If you find yourself in a place of frustration, sadness or anger over changes happening in your life or amid adversity you are facing or working through right now, today’s blog post will speak to you. In it, I share a 3-step process for building resilience.
30 Lessons on Love + Marriage Since We Said "I Do"
In the past 15 years that my husband and I have been together, our relationship has been full of ups and downs with more ups than downs. We’ve been through some difficult challenges physically, relationally, emotionally and mentally, and those experiences have brought us closer together.
The Entrepreneur’s Daughter: 6 Lessons that Have Shaped My Life
As the daughter of two entrepreneurs, I've been given the gift of imagining what's possible and having agency to make my visions and dreams a reality. Here's what I've learned from my greatest mentor - my dad
[Video] 5 Ways to Reduce Zoom Fatigue
Have you been struggling with zoom fatigue lately? As someone who has facilitated over 150 virtual events, I’ve learned some tips and tricks YOU can use right now to make it through more video meetings and events with less fatigue. Check out this video!
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