Recently, after nearly a year in temporary office quarters, I moved into my NEW CareerTrend Studio. Converting a bare structure into a fully functioning office was no small task. My husband not only envisioned the transformation process, but he also completed it in fewer than 6 weeks. He did this with a one-day-at-a-time mindset. What really struck […]
Have the Courage to Begin Again
New Season, New You For many, as summer winds down, vacations are in the rearview window, kids are returning to school/college, and energies are shifting toward other, autumn priorities. This opens up the opportunity to Begin Again, with renewed focus on your career journey goals. Strategic Advantage New reports regarding high- and slow-growth industry and economic trends as well as […]
Finding Freedom + Creative Expression From the Space and Beauty of Raw Land | Starting Over, Again
Here we are, starting over again. But this time it’s different. It’s raw, it’s minimalistic, it’s hills and mountains, plush green foliage and tall trees. Simpler inside, so that we can imbibe in the multifaceted outside. Eight and a half acres of timbered Missouri Ozark land, to be specific. Yesterday was our first full day […]
7 People Making a Splash With Their Words of the Year
My Word of the Year My word of the year is Simplify, and I recently blogged about it. Boy, this word has hit the ground running. At nearly every turn, I’m acting it out. This includes cutting back on business interactions or processes that complicate where complexity is unnecessary, or trimming out personal (emotional and/or […]
How a Year of Contemplation Led the Founder + President of Performance CXO, to Select His 3 Words
In response to a One-Word post I wrote HERE, a former client and my friend, Gary Fly, offered up his Three Words as well as the inspired story buttressing those words. Gary is the Founder and President of Performance CXO, a management consulting firm focused on increasing revenue, EBITDA and enterprise value. He wrote the […]
How I Chose My 2025 Word of the Year: Balancing the Nuance of Complexity With the Liberation of Simplicity
In the midst of a warm but windy January morning on the Gulf Coast of Texas, I chose my 2025 word of the year. You see, I’ve avidly blogged about my chosen words since 2013, amassing 13 years of thought work around actionable ‘north star words’, an exercise which began here. For the first eight […]
Executive: “Do This, Not That” When Writing (or Hiring Someone to Write) Your Career Story Resume
Are you feeling the anxiety that accompanies executive job search when writing your career story resume? Are you experiencing the intermittent highs of hope and the plunging moments of despair that naturally can occur when trying to wedge a job search amid an already packed work schedule or recover and rebuild your story on the […]
Making Career Lemonade
Rudyard Kipling famously wrote: “If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs … Yours is the Earth and everything that’s in it.” Most would agree, these words were written for times such as these. We are, as a planet, experiencing trying times, and some days are going to be better […]
10 Reasons NOT to Hire an Executive Resume Writer
Here are 10 reasons not to hire an executive resume writer. 1. You are overwhelmed with requests for interviews for that perfect, dream job. 2. Whenever you interview, the interviewer / recruiter, etc. comments how yours is the best resume they’ve ever seen, hands down. 3. Whenever you send your resume for that perfect job, […]
Why I am not an Amazon business-style resume writing service and never will be
In an age of agility and speed and AI and shortcuts and hacks and outsourcing the hard yards to bots and (perceptions of) scrappiness, I slay the slow-motion world record. Because when it comes to writing C-Suite, Executive, Board of Director and Entrepreneur resumes, I am not an Amazon-business-style resume writer. While scrolling Amazon for […]
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