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Helping Your Senior Parents Embrace Downsizing Navigating the transition of downsizing with senior parents is a journey filled with emotional nuances and practical necessities. This guide […]

Building Stress Resistance: The Unconventional Truths Stress. We’ve all felt it—those moments when deadlines loom, expectations mount, and life seems to demand more than we have to give. For those jug […]

Time After Time There comes a point in (almost) everyone’s life where they will find themselves feeling a bit pressed for time. It could be a fleeting moment, or t […]

Unexpected Friendships From a Cookbook It’s sunny and very hot day today, beds made, meals cooked, house cleaned up, now what? Well, in my house all too often, it signals “all cle […]

Niki Spears Niki Spears is an Author, Expert Eduprenuer, and Chief Culture Cre8or who is traveling the country helping educators embrace a healthy, vibrant, […]

Authenticity in a Toxic Work World The moment was magical and led down a path that neither of us anticipated.  My client, I’ll call her Stephanie, was a successful and admired in […]

Transform Your Life: The Power of Small Steps and Effective Systems At the risk of sounding a bit dramatic, I want to introduce you to something that has completely changed my life. It is the combination of two […]

To Do To-Day: Improving Productivity Productivity is less about what you do with your time. And more about how you run your mind” ~Robin Sharma Productivity can be thought of as s […]

Achieve More with Less Stress: Productivity Hacks  Whether you’re climbing the corporate ladder, running your own business, or attempting to harmonize work with family life, finding ways to be m […]

For The Love of The Work Some moons ago (like many, many moons!) I was invited to speak to a large group of women leaders in Calgary. I could choose any topic, but it […]

The Time is Now Well, here we are, the much-anticipated season of summer. Time to pack up for family get-a-ways, summer camp and cook outs every week. If you live […]

More Communication, Less Connection The Listening Paradox Take a moment and look around your space right now.  Count how many forms of communication you are currently using or have […]

Turning Passion into Profit Imagine transforming your passion into a thriving business where each day brings the joy of doing what you love. Start by deeply understanding the […]

Becoming the Solution Let’s face it: we’re in a mess.  All economies—locally, nationally and globally are struggling to right themselves while being bombarded contin […]

Listen to Understand: Active Listening “Nothing I say this day will teach me anything. So, if I’m going to learn, I must do it by listening.” ~Larry King Most people listen with the i […]

Being Wrong I Was Wrong. That is hard to admit because it takes a lot of humility, something that I thought I was good at but really at 50 years old I am just […]

From Hearing to Understanding: The Benefits of Active Listening Who taught you to listen? Did your mom sit you down on the couch and give you three tips for listening well? Did your fifth-grade teacher take the […]

The “Living Wage” Examined The concept of a living wage has surfaced as a growing concern among my family, friends and associates.  Across a broad spectrum of […]