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Have you ever started on a car trip, knowing full well your intentions, but ended up somewhere else? Over forty years ago, my husband put our bed pillows and a blanket into the car, and I thought we were headed to […]

It’s the simpliest thing, but often with so much going on, we don’t prepare for our meetings. Why is that? Elizabeth shares with us what being prepared does for us as it relates to influence.

The mundane matters.  I really don’t like that!  I am one who loves to think about the next adventure–those moments that leave you with a feeling of joy and a smiling heart.  I tend to want to get thru the “e […]

Stress affects us every day!  I just realized that this article is due to the publisher soon!  So, I began—or tried to begin—to write an article for PlaidForWomen as I have done for the past three years.  I forgot […]

I do love my clients. I love the process of working with them to decide if we are a good fit. I love the support that I am able to provide within our relationship. I love tracking things intuitively and advising […]

We love this topic of “Building Up and Supporting Women” as that is a basic foundational principle of our financial planning and wealth management practice. In our work with our clients, some of our women cli […]

Just saying the word “fail” or “failure” can feel defeating.  It often comes with such a negative connotation and a feeling of shame or regret.  “I was a failure with the new client.” “I failed to get my point […]

Awe and wonder escape us as adults. We put the pedal to the metal, rush through the agenda, push to the last item on the list and never once stop to gaze at an ant. We neglect to nourish our curiosity and fill our […]

Women today, are making a point of supporting and empowering other women. When coming together in support of other women, we demonstrate and become a powerful force that benefits us all.

Women are creating […]

Here’s a wee confession for you:

I freakin’ love my work.

I like the “woo” I get to do.

I like going “into the mystic.”

It’s kinda my jam.

(I am, after all, an intuitive and a retired homeopath, so […]

One gentle knock can change a life. As a woman without much confidence, without many goals, always feeling like someone else could do everything better, this is what happened to me.

In a moment of tough times, […]

When I think of women that purposely “walk the talk” on lifting other women to a better place in life, my thoughts recall an amazing group that began as the “Dallas Thirty.”  In 2004, a group of Dallas women CE […]

This month I want to write from my heart to my professional nursing peers. Shakespeare said, “To be or not to be, that is the question”, but what was the brave bard telling us? If there actually is a con […]

There is not much like the excitement of an upcoming wedding.  Most little girls have dreamed about this day since they were five.  The flowers, food, cake, family and friends, the beautiful wedding gown, oh, a […]

Tears flow as she heads down the highway.  Alone, her thoughts are jumbled.  She has no idea what she will find at the end of her journey.

Her day started with a silent prayer, a warm cup of coffee, and her d […]

Tracee Ellis Ross is the star of the ABC comedy series “Black-ish” and an influential voice in the modern conversation around equality, respect, beauty and feeling empowered in your skin.

Tracee Ellis Ros […]

We are used to referring to addiction as a disease, but Dr. Daniel Sumrok (Director of Center for Addiction Sciences at the University of Tennessee) says that is wrong.  It should be called, “ritualized […]

Elizabeth talks candidly about what influence is and the importance of developing this skill at work. She further describes how having the highest title doesn’t mean having influence and how influence isn’t m […]

At the age of seven, Patricia McCormick was full of life and curiosity. On a family vacation to Mexico City, she was enthralled with a bull fighter who lost his shoes in the mud but continued to fight. That was […]