I Love My Life Coaching

Bouncing Back After the Layoff Letdown

I was recently asked, “What are the best ways for a recently laid off worker to quickly get past the emotions and mental stress of being let go? Here are a few methods to be able to bounce back more quickly. These tips for overcoming the layoff letdown address our internal emotional life and actionable […]

Job, Career, or Calling?

Insight from Tony Hsieh's book, "Delivering Happiness", the importance of recruiting, training, onboarding, and creating a vision for employees to be happy and inspired by their work so they define it as their calling versus just a job or career.

When you think of how you connect to the work you do, what would you call it? If you were to ask your employees, what do you think they would say? I’ve been reading the book “Delivering Happiness” by Tony Hsieh, the CEO of Zappos. It usually takes me a few weeks to get through […]

Changing job roles – The What, When, and How

As a Career Coach I coach executives in the work place at the many stages of what I term as their “employee journey.”  If they’re in the market for a new job or they are thinking about looking for one, I hear their concerns all the time that sound like: “It’s been so long since […]

Coaching Gets You Past The Blind Spots

Have you ever been introduced to something that turned out to be a fun new add on to your life? It’s the little things…but last week I was introduced to Google Hangouts. Through the networking world I meet a lot of interesting people. Over the past few years my path has crossed that of Hank […]

What’s worse, going to the dentist or going through the review process?

Believe it or not I hear this comparison, and others similar to it, from many of my clients.  It’s easy for me to remember also how much I dreaded the review process and the requirement of the performance review appraisal. But alas, it’s a very necessary part of corporate employment, but it really doesn’t have […]

(Part 3) Looking for a job? Straight from the Headhunter’s Mouth

As part of my interview series, I also had the pleasure of interviewing Jordan Rao. Jordan is a Headhunter and Recruiter with a company called Direct Hire Associates, LLC at an office here in Los Angeles.  He is “dedicated to matching quality talent to the most suitable organization and role.” His expertise is in hiring […]

(Part 2) Looking for a job? Straight from the Recruiter’s Mouth

I recently did an interview with an internal recruiter, Becky Carlson, who has worked for companies such as Amazon and Microsoft. She has a little bit of a different perspective than a Headhunter and provides pertinent information regarding interviewing and getting your resume prepared. About halfway through the interview we decided to go to an […]

Looking for a job? Straight from the Headhunter’s Mouth

In my last career of being in professional sales, I had multiple first hand experiences of working with Headhunters.  I started using their services when I first moved to San Francisco in 1993 right before the Internet boom. I knew I wanted a Sales position, I just didn’t know how to get one or where […]

It’s Frequent, Immediate and Specific – Coaching

Coaching can be described in many different ways, i.e. it’s a collaborative process, or how it’s about where a client is now and then supporting that client in where they want to be, or how coaching addresses the challenges that get in a person’s way of success, happiness or fulfillment. Often those descriptors can confuse […]

What Questions Are You Willing to Ask of Yourself?

When it comes to improving ourselves, we usually seek out external sources, such as self-help programs, books, podcasts, seminars, and yes coaches too. It’s almost as if a lot of people have lost sight of the many rich experiences they’ve had through life and what they were all for.  So oftentimes we neglect what could […]