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Threshold Meditation

July 6, 2020 By Kate Roberts

It’s important to mark transitions. Follow this guided meditation and notice doorways that you have stepped through, what you have lost and what you are moving toward.

Filed Under: Career Transitions, Meditations Tagged With: career change, grounding

When asked to Talk about Yourself, Stand Tall as a Tree

May 18, 2020 By Laura Paradise

When I speak to tell me about yourself, I want to be able to stand tall and strong as a tree knowing that what I say is a representation of […]

Filed Under: Interviewing, Self-esteem Tagged With: grounding, nature, talking about yourself

Networking and Informational Interviews During Covid

May 12, 2020 By Laura Paradise

In the Covid job search lexicon, networking, reaching out, and informational interviews are essentials. Yes, you can still look at job listings and follow companies that are hiring. But the same conventional […]

Filed Under: COVID-19, Interviewing, Networking, Self-esteem Tagged With: grounding, informational interview, zoom

The Giving Spirit and The Job Search

January 7, 2020 By Laura Paradise

When it comes to you giving you, Do you take on posture of giving?! Do you feel generous? Do you feel excited and hopeful about how others will respond? Or, […]

Filed Under: Meditations Tagged With: giving, grounding, values

What People Remember About YOU!

April 26, 2019 By Laura Paradise

A client recently told me that she gives people nothing to remember her by. I think what she’s saying is that she doesn’t know what she wants people to remember. That tells me she hasn’t answered […]

Filed Under: Interviewing, Self-esteem Tagged With: commitment, enthusiasm, grounding, understanding, values

It’s Self-Promotion Time!

January 22, 2019 By Laura Paradise

It’s the start of a new year. I want to put the focus on self-promotion because that’s truly what a job search is all about. Whether it’s interviewing or networking, sending in a […]

Filed Under: Interviewing, Self-esteem Tagged With: body, communication, grounding, self-promotion

Lessons from Halloween

October 30, 2018 By Laura Paradise

Fear doesn’t show up only when there are ghosts or goblins. A job seeker wrote me recently asking, “How do I stay grounded / centered / OPEN even when a […]

Filed Under: Interviewing, Self-esteem Tagged With: body, communication, grounding

How to be good at networking

July 31, 2018 By Laura Paradise

Listen more than you talk. Have three key questions in your pocket. Start with WHAT questions, not DO YOU KNOW questions. Open ended questions are conversation starters. Yes/no questions can […]

Filed Under: Networking Tagged With: communication, enthusiasm, grounding, listening

What grounds you?

February 4, 2014 By Laura Paradise

That’s the question I asked each woman to answer as she introduced herself at the No Excuses! group. My intention was to help ground everyone and to give us resources […]

Filed Under: Meditations Tagged With: clarity, coaching, grounding, meditation

The practice of presenting

December 19, 2012 By Laura Paradise

Effective communication is 20% what you know and 80% how you feel about what you know. Reflect on what happens when you are speaking and there is something at stake, […]

Filed Under: Meditations Tagged With: body, coaching, communication, exercise, grounding, listening, values

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April 4, 3:30-5 pm, In Person. Writing from the Heart: Find your Inner Wisdom.

Free! https://www.eventbrite.com/e/heart-on-paper-journaling-as-a-path-to-inner-wisdom-tickets-1301310066439?aff=oddtdtcreator

Six week Online Job Search Group, Monday March 10 – April 14, 5:30-7 pm, $25/session. 

To attend, RSVP to lparadise.coach@gmail.com

 

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