Blog posts from Girl Power For Good, LLC

  • Traditional or Trailblazing? Yes, We Are.
    May 14, 2021 at 5:00 AM
    Traditional or Trailblazing? Yes, We Are.I’m a big fan of traditions, and yet I get itchy and bored without change. If that seems contradictory, that...
  • I + A = NT
    May 4, 2021 at 5:00 AM
    During my life coaching certification with Dr. Martha Beck, best selling author and “O, the Oprah Magazine” contributor, I learned a tool that still ...
  • The Real Price of Dreams
    April 11, 2021 at 5:00 AM
    I need to dream. It’s the way I restore and rejuvenate my brain. In the olden days, I would dream about building a place for girls to learn and grow ...
  • Grit Happens
    March 20, 2021 at 5:00 AM
    Grit Happens. I am stubborn-just ask my family-but it’s not such a bad thing. In fact, stubbornness is a blessing when you’re trying to learn a new s...
  • Good is still good enough!
    March 8, 2021 at 6:00 AM
    I have BIG plans for today-I’m organizing a closet. There are still boxes in there from when we moved in December-before-last. Just writing that sent...
  • Patience
    February 21, 2021 at 6:00 AM
    The 2020 shi-show continues, and this week has reached new levels of WTF-is-happening-and-why. On Monday I asked my volleyball teams what they need t...
  • Imposter Syndrome
    February 7, 2021 at 6:00 AM
    Tell the Imposter Syndrome to Take a Hike!In all the corporate coaching I’ve done, the most interesting trait I’ve noticed in highly successful women...
  • Baby Steps (How do you eat an elephant?)
    How Do You Eat An Elephant? We are in the middle of moving, and my inner neat freak has blown a gasket. I loathe chaos with the red hot intensity of...
  • New Year's Evolution
    It’s a new year, y’all, and the resolutions are flying thick and fast, or not. My Inner Viking looooves a resolution. Write down a goal for the New Y...
  • Holidaze
    December 20, 2020 at 6:00 AM
    Do you feel somnambulant during the holidays? Sort of like Mommy-zombie. Stumbling around with a TODO list pinned to your shirt, a frozen smile on you...
  • Practice Confident Vulnerability
    December 6, 2020 at 6:00 AM
    When I talked with my volleyball girls this week, their go-to definition of vulnerability was a weakness, which is accurate if you’re engaged in warf...
  • Giving Thanks for 2020
    November 22, 2020 at 6:00 AM
    Give Thanks for 2020! Are you kidding me? You want me to give thanks for the biggest CACA-fest of the century? Yes, I do. Because it’s the time of ye...
  • Question Your Absolutes
    November 8, 2020 at 6:00 AM
    This week’s theme at Girl Power for Good is one that has caused me many hours lost in self-doubt—Question Your Absolutes! This is a tough topic for me...
  • Be Your Own Boss
    October 25, 2020 at 5:00 AM
    When dealing with female clients and friends, there is an underlying theme of waiting for permission to live life on your own terms. To this I say, “...
  • Lack or Love Glasses?
    October 11, 2020 at 5:00 AM
    Lack or Love Glasses?In uncertain times, which seems to be all the time lately, we tend to only notice what we don’t have, and that’s okay. It’s just...
  • Intention
    September 27, 2020 at 4:00 AM
    When I went through my Life Coach training in 2010, my teacher, Dr. Martha Beck (frequent “O, the Oprah Magazine” contributor and best-selling author...
  • An Abundance of Lack
    September 13, 2020 at 5:00 AM
    COVID-19 has taken many things from us: loved ones, freedom of travel, going to the movies, parties at restaurants, parties at bars, pretty much all ...
  • Calm B-T-S Anxiety With 3 Easy Steps!
    August 30, 2020 at 5:00 AM
    In the middle of our new world of “nothing is certain” drops the ancestral stressor called Back-to-School—seriously? There are so many Back to School...
  • It's Cool To Be Kind!
    August 16, 2020 at 5:00 AM
    I spend a lot of time talking about kindness, because I believe it’s the antidote to most of the ills in our culture. It’s also the MOST important th...
  • Tame the Binge Monster
    August 2, 2020 at 5:00 AM
    This past Friday ended a quarantine brought on by an exposure to a positive person—remember when being positive was a good thing? Staying in my house...
  • Striving for Extraordinary Sucks!
    Striving for Extraordinary Sucks!I was raised by wolves. That’s part of the title of my first book, Field Guide to Plugged-In Parenting...even if you...
  • What Keeps You From Freedom?
    July 5, 2020 at 5:00 AM
    I am pondering independence on this independence day weekend. What stops me from being free?1. Self-doubt: in all it’s insidious forms. The nagging v...
  • Anxious Much?
    June 21, 2020 at 5:00 AM
    You’d be amazed at how much energy I put into planning for the perfect outcome. And more importantly how much of that energy is wasted. Take last wee...
  • Good Things Take Time
    June 7, 2020 at 5:00 AM
    We are a society of quick fixes. We have fast food, grocery pick up, streaming shows on demand, and anything our little brains want can be shipped to...
  • Failure is a Fast Pass to Growth!
    May 23, 2020 at 5:00 AM
    Failure is a Fast Pass to Growth!Remember that movie, where the Boss says,”We have a ZERO tolerance for failure!” and we all thought, “That’s so impr...
  • This Too Shall Pass
    May 10, 2020 at 5:00 AM
    In honor of Mother’s Day, I want to pay homage to my dearly departed Momma. I’ve written many blogs about her, as she was worthy of putting pen to pa...
  • Why So Serious?
    April 20, 2020 at 5:00 AM
    I just hung up from a Zoom call with our 850 Elite coaches, and I’m still giggling! It was a respite from my new normal. I have been more than a littl...
  • Welcome Back to the Fire Swamp!!
    March 30, 2020 at 5:00 AM
    Princess Bride is my favorite movie, hands down. It’s got love, hate, heroes, villains and the Fire Swamp, a place that feels a whole lot like our cur...
  • Work With What You've Got
    March 2, 2020 at 6:00 AM
    Do you ever feel like you’re striving for someone else’s goals? Our society tells us that all you need to be influential is the right picture and the...
  • Combat the Blues with Compassion
    February 17, 2020 at 6:00 AM
    Twice a week I spend an hour in our volleyball gym to coach our players from age 11-18. We talk about what’s happening in their lives on and off the ...
  • 2020 is the Year of M.B.S
    January 1, 2020 at 6:00 AM
    Happy New Year! It was a little weird to have New Year’s Day on Wednesday, as I really like to start my resolutions on a Monday, am I right? So, what ...
  • Show and Tell
    December 16, 2019 at 6:00 AM
    While I was strolling around Black Friday sales, I realized that just buying a gift wasn’t enough. I needed to SHOW my people how much I loved them a...
  • Be Your Own BFF
    November 11, 2019 at 6:00 AM
    When I walk through my volleyball gym, I hear a lot of talk about BFF’s, which, of course, stands for Best Friend Forever. These magical creatures ra...
  • Do you Have a Complex Complex?
    October 27, 2019 at 5:00 AM
    If you’re like me, you complicate things for the greater good, or so you think. If you are always striving for a better way to do something, forever ...
  • Go Play Outside!
    September 24, 2019 at 5:00 AM
    Last month I visited Montana for six glorious days. It was in the high 70s during the day and high 50s at night with a refreshing lack of humidity. A...
  • Weeding Your Sisterhood Garden
    September 3, 2019 at 12:00 PM
    Weed Your SisterhoodLast time we talked about creating a sisterhood of supportive women who will help you reach your life goals. These are YOUR peopl...
  • Choose Your Sisterhood
    August 25, 2019 at 5:00 AM
    This month’s “O, the Oprah Magazine” is all about friendship. As it happens, this month begins a new Sisterhood campaign at Girl Power Station with a ...
  • Are you a Shark or a Rowboat?
    July 21, 2019 at 5:00 AM
    I am a shark. Not in my transactions, but in my motivational style. I am always moving forward. Always looking for the next puzzle to solve or opportu...
  • Be Your Own Cheerleader
    July 7, 2019 at 12:00 AM
    The theme for this week is a piggy back on last week’s theme of “Advice for Your Younger Self”. By the way, if the messages on our Big Board are any i...
  • You Are Wise Beyond Measure--Share It!
    June 30, 2019 at 5:00 AM
    This is a Blog Post I wrote in March of 2015--I'm taking a writing vacation while in Mexico...Olé!I ran across an intriguing meme and video for ...
  • You Are Not Alone
    June 23, 2019 at 5:00 AM
    As women, we think we must take care of everyone in our lives and put ourselves last, right? Wrong. We actually have people to help us, if we will jus...
  • Perfectionism Is Far From Perfect
    June 2, 2019 at 5:00 AM
    I have BIG plans for today-I’m organizing a closet. There are still boxes in there from when we moved in December-before-last. Just writing that sent...
  • Stopping Is Hard! Just Don't Start
    May 22, 2019 at 6:00 PM
    I’m trying to give up refined sugar, again. This has been a lifelong struggle for me, as I have used sugar as a comfort drug since I was a little girl...
  • Everyday is a winding road
    April 8, 2019 at 12:00 AM
  • Tradition-Ritual or Rut?
    March 3, 2019 at 12:00 AM
    In a world filled with uncertainty, there is a place of comfort--sacred ritual. No, I'm not talking about some Game of Thrones sacrifice. I mean a tra...
  • Gratitude is Everything 
    February 3, 2019 at 6:00 AM
    On the other side of the gym at 850 Elite Volleyball, our motto is “Attitude is Everything!” When we say that, we don’t mean the kind of attitude you ...
  • Respond, Not React
    January 27, 2019 at 6:00 AM
    Without discernment, we revert to our base self, reacting to stimulus instead of responding. That reaction place can be dangerous. Reacting leads to n...
  • Comfort Happens at the Edge of Your Comfort Zone
    January 27, 2019 at 6:00 AM
    I used to avoid discomfort like the plague. I used my organizational powers and life force to keep well within my comfort zone for years, planning eve...
  • What's Worth Your Time Today?
    January 26, 2019 at 12:00 AM
    Today I got out of bed at 3:45 a.m. I can hear you thinking, “For the love of God, why? Was Beyonce promising to teach you how to dance? Did Chris Hem...
  • Stay In Your Own Lane and Cruise Smoothly!
    January 13, 2019 at 6:00 AM
    My college girl is amazing. I’m not playing favorites, all my girls are amazing. On the daily, my breath stops when I think how lucky I am. My girls a...
  • The Compassionate No
    January 6, 2019 at 12:00 AM
    As women, we are used to saying "Yes." Our culture demands that of polite civilized women. If one of our family members needs help we say, "Yes." If a...
  • Happy New Year
    January 1, 2019 at 12:00 AM
     It’s the beginning of a New Year, and resolutions are flying fast and thick. Are you looking hopefully at a new year and all its promise with th...
  • Create a New Holiday Tradition: Presence
    December 23, 2018 at 12:00 AM
    We know the commercial side of the holidays—it’s blasted at us from every conceivable portal: television, Facebook, Instagram, radio. We are bombarded...
  • We've Got Alot!
    December 16, 2018 at 12:00 AM
    There’s an old Sheryl Crow lyric that always plays in my head during Thanksgiving, “It’s not having what you want, it’s wanting what you've got.” We a...
  • Why Acceptance Doesn't Always Work
    December 9, 2018 at 12:00 AM
    Disappointment has plagued me all my life. I was raised in a household where the adults in charge rarely nurtured or even paid me much attention, as t...
  • Feeling Like You're Losing Your Ever Loving Mind?
    December 2, 2018 at 12:00 AM
    The theme for the next few weeks is Clarity is the KEY, to which you may respond, “Well, duh!” At face value, you know that clarity is important, but ...
  • Get Your Story Straight!
    December 2, 2018 at 12:00 AM
    You know in the typical cop show when the suspects are separated before they can compare their stories? The reason they do that (other than it makes g...
  • Love IS The Plan
    November 25, 2018 at 12:00 AM
    As women, we are all about a plan. I have TODO lists galore, and I’ve even retroactively written items on my list, just so I could have the pleasure o...
  • Tell It To The Judge
    November 18, 2018 at 12:00 AM
       Most of us judge other people from time to time. For some of us, it’s from the time we wake up to the time we go to sleep. If you never j...
  • Stressin'
    November 11, 2018 at 12:00 AM
     “I am SO stressed!” That’s the battle cry for working women, which means ALL women, those who work outside the home for a paycheck, and those st...
  • Why So Blue Panda Bear? Try R.A.K.!
    November 4, 2018 at 12:00 AM
    Random acts of kindness are often as helpful for the giver as the receiver. I remember, not too long ago, when I was plagued with resistance and frust...
  • So, You Aren't Perfect--Welcome To The Human Race!
    October 28, 2018 at 12:00 AM
    I am a reformed perfectionist. In my previous life, the worst, most dreaded result, whether personally or professionally, was a mistake. I would doubl...
  • The Summer of Self-Care Starts With You!
    October 7, 2018 at 12:00 AM
    If you are one of our treasured clients, you know that we are a little weird at Girl Power for Good Foundation. On the 850 Elite Volleyball side, we r...
  • Keep Your Eye On The Why
    September 9, 2018 at 12:00 AM
    Have you ever wondered why we get into a deep blue funk from time to time? When you are in a deep blue funk, do you try to blame other people for putt...
  • Step Off The Gas!
    September 2, 2018 at 12:00 AM
    Our culture, and my Inner Viking, requires that we keep pushing to be successful. We think we must work harder, longer hours, lift more weights, run f...
  • The Power of Sisterhood
    July 2, 2018 at 12:00 AM
    Last weekend I took a trip to South Florida to invest in Friendship. This is a relatively new concept for me, as I’m a pretty severe introvert. If you...
  • Perspective Can Be Shifty
    June 3, 2018 at 12:00 AM
    Perspective is a concept that fascinates me because of the way I process information. I'm naturally curious, which leads to ease, but my learned habit...
  • Creature Feature
    May 6, 2018 at 12:00 AM
    I have been in volleyball gyms a lot lately. The last weekend in March was Big South, our biggest tournament of the season in Atlanta. It is a nationa...
  • Absolutes Are So 5 Minutes Ago!
    March 4, 2018 at 12:00 AM
    This week’s theme at Girl Power Station is Question Your Negative Absolutes! This is a tough topic for me, because I've spent most of my life as a bla...