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Mar 28, 2023
Being Resourced
I'll admit it, travel hockey is not something I participate in with bells on . . . at least not always. For four days last week, my son...
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Mar 21, 2023
Liberate Your Gold
I want you to find the gold. Not money (not yet anyway), but the gold inside of you. You know - that bright solid gold goodness that is...
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Mar 21, 2023
What Do You Stand For?
The philosopher and Roman emperor, Marcus Aurelius said, “The impediment to action advances the action. What stands in the way becomes...
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Mar 8, 2023
Blame into Grief
I had a strange few days last week. I felt grief very strongly, which is not so typical anymore. I wanted to attribute a cause to it. I...
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Mar 5, 2023
Body Resonant Language
Language is one our most powerful personal growth tools. But it isn't just with our words that we communicate. Artists and creatives...
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Feb 26, 2023
Guest on Literacy LandscapePodcast
https://open.spotify.com/episode/2m2s9i5zHEDwQnGhwvqr86?si=85701d233fce4fdc Johanna Tramantano 0:01 I'm so happy to have you on today....
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Feb 26, 2023
Use a Different Language
What is your favorite children’s book or song? This week, Johanna David-Tramantano, Ph.D. in linguistics and host of Leveraging Literacy...
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Feb 13, 2023
RIDING A SHAME WAVE
If you’ve ever put yourself out there, you've felt it: Shame. Shame is more painful than your run-of the-mill guilt. You might feel...
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Feb 7, 2023
Testing your Beliefs
"Sometimes, I'm sitting through a process, just feeling completely anxious. But when I don't interfere with myself, the work almost...
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Feb 7, 2023
Assumptions (Ass-U-Me)
"When you Assume you make an ass out of you and me" Mr. Black, Naomi's seventh grade science teacher There are three things that...
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Feb 7, 2023
Stalling Change
Dear << Test First Name >>, My work focuses on change and transition. My clients are ready to take action that will change the...
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Jan 19, 2023
Tell Someone You Don't Know
I client of mine recently renewed her contract and made a new six month goal. (Her last one took her idea from a seed to a live...
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Jan 17, 2023
D's of Change
It’s common for our momentum to stall before we make a change and even after a big change. A professor of change theory introduced me to...
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Jan 9, 2023
Choosing a Direction
I stayed up later than my seventeen year old last night, and I'm glad I did. At the end of that long House Speaker Bid process,...
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Jan 9, 2023
Proof of your courage to climb
I just created a new offer in my business. But I almost didn't. Like me, I know that you all have big ideas about what you want to...
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Jan 5, 2023
Stories that stall change
I just created a BRAVING BIG CHANGE mini-workshop as a New Year's offering. But I almost didn't. Like me, I know that you all have big...
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Jan 5, 2023
Enter Change with Grace
For nearly four decades I have been a guest at my in-laws home on December 25th, which is also my husband’s birthday. The first year I...
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Dec 26, 2022
Re-dedication
My friend Jill, a Jewish educator, shared with me that the literal meaning of Hanukkah is “re-dedication.” Isn't it true that every time...
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Dec 13, 2022
Nothing to fear, get curious instead!
A powerful indicator that you will make the change you seek is if you invest money in your change process. Just as accountability to an...
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Dec 13, 2022
Art for Pleasure
Sometimes even artists forget that they are allowed to let their creativity roam. Most high-functioning creatives (yours truly, being...
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