Plaid for Women | Rebecca Liston | Activity https://www.plaidforwomen.com/members/rebeccal/activity/ Activity feed for Rebecca Liston. Tue, 21 Apr 2026 22:16:13 -0500 https://buddypress.org/?v= en-US 30 hourly 2 568b1792faedfe454855e5e40399e8ff Rebecca Liston wrote a new post https://www.plaidforwomen.com/?p=31973 Mon, 08 Dec 2025 13:30:18 -0600 The Road That Brought You Here In conversations about “bigger futures,” it can be easy to leap ahead. We picture where we want to be. We make lists. We set targets. We start tak […]

]]> de92dd8a5f9f5482cf24213d5878f414 Rebecca Liston wrote a new post https://www.plaidforwomen.com/?p=31863 Wed, 06 Aug 2025 12:30:03 -0500 My Body Knows All Last summer, I threw my back out. Like “out-out,” as in could not sit or stand or move in any direction without feeling pain. It was not a del […]

]]> 083a5e722b1f82a6e3a0835f2e7f7a24 Rebecca Liston wrote a new post https://www.plaidforwomen.com/?p=31839 Wed, 16 Jul 2025 12:30:48 -0500 Stop? Slow? Feels more like GO! There are a lot of reasons for our clients – and ourselves for that matter – to throw on the brakes right now. A LOT of reasons. It feels lik […]

]]> 3c5d86ec1f28f60988636af523160755 Rebecca Liston wrote a new post https://www.plaidforwomen.com/?p=31809 Wed, 04 Jun 2025 12:30:44 -0500 Practicing Makes…GRUMPY! Dear Reader, I hated practicing the piano when I was a kid. Practicing the piano was stressful. Agonizing. Miserable. It felt like […]

]]> 09f4d552217f941b454310ed7bb71344 Rebecca Liston wrote a new post https://www.plaidforwomen.com/?p=31696 Mon, 24 Feb 2025 13:30:47 -0600 Sticks and Stones and Seashells and Stuff Dear Reader, Ever since I was a wee one, I have been a Collector of Stuff. Sure, there were years in which that Stuff was mostly Barbie items, […]

]]> a5d4371f3bd9e9bdff839163533468a0 Rebecca Liston wrote a new post https://www.plaidforwomen.com/?p=31655 Mon, 09 Dec 2024 13:30:47 -0600 A Way to Navigate Change Dear Reader, I need to start by stating a really bold truth: It’s weird for me – especially as a Canadian —  to sit and write this note to a pr […]

]]> 163808e92c3fcf7429a7d7b96fb90405 Rebecca Liston wrote a new post https://www.plaidforwomen.com/?p=31552 Wed, 28 Aug 2024 12:30:03 -0500 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 […]

]]> bc7cc686a63a481fcc00b2efef60ca50 Rebecca Liston wrote a new post https://www.plaidforwomen.com/?p=31533 Mon, 29 Jul 2024 12:30:09 -0500 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 […]

]]> f50d960075f53536e1f884f9b93151d5 Rebecca Liston wrote a new post https://www.plaidforwomen.com/?p=31515 Mon, 17 Jun 2024 12:30:39 -0500 On Showing Up (again) Over time, I’ve become very picky – or shall we say “discerning” – about whose spaces I step into. I often say that it’s because I learned the […]

]]> b37b3f69ff7a147ba3ff3047e8548247 Rebecca Liston wrote a new post https://www.plaidforwomen.com/?p=31460 Wed, 08 May 2024 12:30:11 -0500 Am I Really That Old?!? An Elder? Recently I was invited to be a speaker on a Symposium entitled “Elders of the New Earth.” And at first blush I remember thinking, “Elder? Elder […]

]]> e552c7063cdf7a682eaeb2587dabf664 Rebecca Liston wrote a new post https://www.plaidforwomen.com/?p=31413 Wed, 20 Mar 2024 12:30:25 -0500 The Impact of an Email  On Sunday night, I received an email that started with, “Hello, friend!”  (And no, it was not a spam note from someone seeking $10,000 to get […]

]]> df5c0311d0a9a6d307437df6fc7dd653 Rebecca Liston wrote a new post https://www.plaidforwomen.com/?p=31383 Mon, 19 Feb 2024 13:30:55 -0600 A Lug Nut, Two Screws, and a Soggy Sticker Dear Reader, While I suppose it is possible that I am the only one who looks for “signs” on New Year’s Day, knowing y’all, I somehow doubt I […]

]]> c06aae20c988b1ecccd12215e3419ac2 Rebecca Liston wrote a new post https://www.plaidforwomen.com/?p=31287 Mon, 18 Dec 2023 13:30:24 -0600 Cousin Marty Dear Reader, We have this saying in our house that come October, it’s just really a slippery slope of holidays, one after the other, bouncing u […]

]]> 6276529d89e0d568d68e51ce9409e461 Rebecca Liston wrote a new post https://www.plaidforwomen.com/?p=31269 Wed, 22 Nov 2023 13:30:50 -0600 You, Me, and Our Growing Edges Dear Reader, As many of you know, in the fall of 2020 I chose to make a dramatic change to coaching services: I implemented the Stretch Method […]

]]> 5436ecb864b1305caa1d52aadab484f9 Rebecca Liston wrote a new post https://www.plaidforwomen.com/?p=31222 Mon, 23 Oct 2023 12:30:31 -0500 Because Sometimes We Just Don’t Know I’m writing today during the final moments of the waxing of a Super Blue Moon. I have barely slept the last two nights, and, in total t […]

]]> f4e07a460beab214f6f9576e2d807f22 Rebecca Liston wrote a new post https://www.plaidforwomen.com/?p=31243 Fri, 20 Oct 2023 00:45:45 -0500 Embracing Who You Are, Releasing Who You Are Not

]]> 8882e9da90fd674c6a359744f806d120 Rebecca Liston wrote a new post https://www.plaidforwomen.com/?p=31191 Wed, 27 Sep 2023 12:30:13 -0500 Sitting in the Dichotomy Dear Reader, Many moons ago, Stella and I got to talking about the use of the phrasing “Yes, and…” I cannot quite remember what the conte […]

]]> 749c99c9a10d7e9021a3126bac48d69b Rebecca Liston wrote a new post https://www.plaidforwomen.com/?p=31145 Mon, 21 Aug 2023 12:30:49 -0500 Those Little Voices In My Head I took a swim in our pool at lunch yesterday and part of me felt a bit like I was getting away with something. A swim sandwiched between a morning […]

]]> e7cbd0031dec29c7421a9dd83409c15a Rebecca Liston wrote a new post https://www.plaidforwomen.com/?p=31131 Mon, 24 Jul 2023 12:30:16 -0500 Tina Turner: Trusting This Will Resonate Dear Reader, I don’t really follow The News much (I have a lot to say about that but that’s not what I want to talk about today) but som […]

]]> 3a06ca0ca45441279a63256ae4efde70 Rebecca Liston wrote a new post https://www.plaidforwomen.com/?p=31102 Wed, 21 Jun 2023 12:30:22 -0500 On Marking Milestones Ten years ago, Dear Reader, I signed the final paperwork to release my legal action against the driver that caused my car accident in 2008. It took […]

]]> 35797f1b48ef47287a17db27d5eae3e4 Rebecca Liston wrote a new post https://www.plaidforwomen.com/?p=30992 Mon, 17 Apr 2023 12:30:06 -0500 Hold Space for You (Yes, you!)

]]> c8a06d087c90e319f5cb97800d84713c Rebecca Liston wrote a new post https://www.plaidforwomen.com/?p=30963 Wed, 29 Mar 2023 12:30:06 -0500 Holding the Universe Together A Love Letter To The Girls We Were…and Once Knew “The apartment below mine had the only balcony of the house. I saw a girl standing on it, com […]

]]> b195c6025e82feb833ee068b7f35946a Rebecca Liston wrote a new post https://www.plaidforwomen.com/?p=30904 Wed, 15 Feb 2023 13:30:34 -0600 Maybe I Don’t Want a “New Me” I don’t know about you, Dear Reader, but some of the New Year marketing turns my stomach. New year, new me!? Yes, yes, I know it is a New Year a […]

]]> 9fd770d5811b8d0b4943489616106458 Rebecca Liston wrote a new post https://www.plaidforwomen.com/?p=30849 Wed, 14 Dec 2022 13:30:04 -0600 Dear Reader,
As November settles firmly over my home and its inhabitants here in SW Ontario, we’ve made the conscious decision to move the Sitting Chairs from in front of the bay window that overlooks the pool t […]

]]> fb25f1fee7c7f94f73ce1d0852309214 Rebecca Liston wrote a new post https://www.plaidforwomen.com/?p=30804 Wed, 09 Nov 2022 13:30:53 -0600 Dear Reader,

A few weeks ago we celebrated Thanksgiving here in Canada. Where I live, the weather was a balmy 18 degrees C (that’s about 64 degrees F), the sun shone, the trees are just starting to turn c […]

]]> ad4f2ccc7025f925d0b25a556c33a4df Rebecca Liston wrote a new post https://www.plaidforwomen.com/?p=30823 Mon, 07 Nov 2022 23:27:58 -0600 There’s an art to being of service and not, in the process, sacrificing one’s self. Let’s talk about how to ensure that you’re always being of service to the most important person in your orbit: You! (And no, thi […]

]]> 278218e20d86ba6e00f95ddf660763b2 Rebecca Liston wrote a new post https://www.plaidforwomen.com/?p=30777 Mon, 17 Oct 2022 12:30:25 -0500 It’s Confession Time Dear Reader, It’s Confession Time. I’ve no idea why I decided I had to share this with you today but I can’t sit on this any longer. It’s […]

]]> 765cbc105ecdf8ffcb69254357b463a3 Rebecca Liston wrote a new post https://www.plaidforwomen.com/?p=30751 Wed, 21 Sep 2022 12:30:39 -0500 Whom Do You Serve? Dear Reader, I’ve been pondering lately just what it means to me to be “of service.” Some of you may recall a story I told years ago about […]

]]> ad800c6cc1f007824d62602f48dde1af Rebecca Liston wrote a new post https://www.plaidforwomen.com/?p=30716 Wed, 10 Aug 2022 12:30:32 -0500 Once upon a time, a fair Maiden-on-the-cusp-of-becoming-a-Crone was floating about in her swimming pool when all of a sudden, she heard a soft “plop.”

Curious about what might make such a strange sound in the […]

]]> 58ddc540e8d58f38f884899c990b5c94 Rebecca Liston wrote a new post https://www.plaidforwomen.com/?p=30685 Mon, 11 Jul 2022 12:30:28 -0500 Dearest Reader,

This month marks twenty years since I graduated from the Canadian College of Homeopathic Medicine and began my business-building journey. It’s hard to write about this without using all sorts o […]

]]> 78531124afa046d8b7c68aa52f2f5035 Rebecca Liston wrote a new post https://www.plaidforwomen.com/?p=30669 Mon, 20 Jun 2022 12:30:33 -0500 Dear Reader,

Maybe it’s because I turn 49 this year. Perhaps it’s because I’m celebrating 20 years since launching my first business this month. Or maybe there’s just Something In The Air. Whatever it is, it’ […]

]]> 30bbeedc1391a5adaadcf08e5d885b7e Rebecca Liston wrote a new post https://www.plaidforwomen.com/?p=30623 Mon, 25 Apr 2022 12:30:53 -0500 This year marks seven years since I began hosting Virtual Tea Parties for our Community. 

SEVEN YEARS! 

Seven Years of hosting monthly gatherings of 4-8 business owners whom I adore.

Seven Years of i […]

]]> 19d03416694fba388d956db60ebc8fad Rebecca Liston wrote a new post https://www.plaidforwomen.com/?p=30572 Tue, 08 Mar 2022 13:30:11 -0600 Dear Reader,

In March of 2017 – yes, FIVE years ago – I went out on a limb and wrote an article that I had been carrying around in my body and my Being since 2012.

It was hard to write it because I did […]

]]> 57f64047abd5ceaa5537372b0476830c Rebecca Liston wrote a new post https://www.plaidforwomen.com/?p=30542 Wed, 16 Feb 2022 13:30:57 -0600 Dear Reader,

As I sit to pen you this note, I am fully aware of my desire to whisper.

You see, it is but January 5 as I write and, in my family, that means that Christmas is not quite over yet (January 6 […]

]]> 327c3778d7ae2498754c87fafde49e45 Rebecca Liston wrote a new post https://www.plaidforwomen.com/?p=30453 Wed, 19 Jan 2022 13:30:39 -0600 By the time you read this post, 2021 will be behind us and we will be entering into what feels to be a Year of Possibilities. And while there are many who say it is wise to keep your eye on the road ahead, I, for […]

]]> a70c9aa9a1ee3343762ec0dd93a848c8 Rebecca Liston wrote a new post https://www.plaidforwomen.com/?p=30379 Tue, 07 Dec 2021 13:30:47 -0600 Some weeks back, my business partner and I hosted an impromptu gathering of like-minded folks to talk about what we were experiencing in these Pandemic Times – the confusion, the reactivity, the fatigue and mood f […]

]]> a244d84d7c380a6e67fa01ffde296fb2 Rebecca Liston wrote a new post https://www.plaidforwomen.com/?p=30352 Mon, 08 Nov 2021 13:30:26 -0600 Dear Reader,

As Summer slides into Autumn here in the Northern Hemisphere, I am, as is often the case in the presence of Nature, in complete and total Awe.

It is so beautiful to witness this Turning. The […]

]]> 4d0cabc30b9d985f54ddb442edd9b309 Rebecca Liston wrote a new post https://www.plaidforwomen.com/?p=30365 Fri, 29 Oct 2021 14:40:12 -0500 We are excited for you to meet Plaid’s Career Empowered Expert, Rebecca Liston. As a business coach, she helps her clients predict, pivot, and compete in an increasingly complex global marketplace. Listen as sh […]

]]> 0c6f60e5e43b8ba0e0da616c6424083b Rebecca Liston wrote a new post https://www.plaidforwomen.com/?p=30332 Tue, 19 Oct 2021 12:30:39 -0500 One day, Dear Reader, I shall die.

In my cellular memory, I hold a deep knowing of what that Passage shall be like. I am not afraid of that Passage, even though I am sad when I think of leaving all of […]

]]> c61f1efe116e96c7b000846b1983e445 Rebecca Liston wrote a new post https://www.plaidforwomen.com/?p=30296 Wed, 29 Sep 2021 12:30:30 -0500 As some of you know, I am a (retired) homeopath. In fact, this past month I celebrated 19 years since my graduation from the Canadian College of Homeopathic Medicine, the school at which I both studied, and later, […]

]]> 5ade7a29b75c7db834fe7c02f303b3ee Rebecca Liston wrote a new post https://www.plaidforwomen.com/?p=30265 Mon, 23 Aug 2021 12:30:04 -0500 If the past year has taught me one thing, it has been this: Big wheels do indeed keep on turning.

An Event Planner who, within 48 hours, lost every contract she had lined up for the entire year, turned the […]

]]> 3900b40a24c2c374e3a9229ce9ed339f Rebecca Liston wrote a new post https://www.plaidforwomen.com/?p=30226 Wed, 14 Jul 2021 12:30:36 -0500 Of all the “stuff” that I carry with me from my early days as a Coach, this concept of “charging what I am worth” has stuck with me.

And not in a good way.

Would it surprise you to learn that this topic h […]

]]> 0326dcf7d66790086bbc79f335f8989b Rebecca Liston wrote a new post https://www.plaidforwomen.com/?p=30157 Tue, 25 May 2021 23:31:01 -0500 Rebecca Liston Rebecca Liston helps her clients predict, pivot, and compete in an increasingly complex global marketplace. Her clients quickly uncover the root […]

]]> 00cc124cea6c8a6efb2a8373fd821818 Rebecca Liston wrote a new post https://www.plaidforwomen.com/?p=29990 Wed, 28 Apr 2021 12:30:36 -0500 The tides are changing, Dear Reader. The tides in our World. In our Work. In our Ways of Being. And I, for one, am in awe of it.

 

I don’t always talk about the specifics of my work, but for some reason, it […]

]]> 6adf12f18c5be76265d5a6e4cf01e218 Rebecca Liston wrote a new post https://www.plaidforwomen.com/?p=29691 Tue, 20 Oct 2020 12:30:24 -0500 Dearest Reader,

Some of you may know that I have the pleasure – and the honour – of being a part of what I can only call a “Spirit Group” under the wise counsel of Catharine Clarenbach.

This past month i […]

]]> 8e89335794d7a1445d38b65b15d2a4d9 Rebecca Liston wrote a new post https://www.plaidforwomen.com/?p=29694 Mon, 19 Oct 2020 12:30:50 -0500 “When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.”

-Eleanor Roosevelt

Death is inevitable.  We all must die.  Though our souls may continue the journey, our lives here on earth have an expir […]

]]> 88308c961258f8729b44119ad54dbea5 Rebecca Liston wrote a new post https://www.plaidforwomen.com/?p=29678 Thu, 15 Oct 2020 12:30:35 -0500 The perfect world: is it a deserted island, a mountain-top cabin, a penthouse on Fifth Avenue, or a place where calories don’t equal pounds and all relationships are pure bliss? Everyone has their own idea of w […]

]]> c7dad3b0f9c43dfce2bd0af4535806fb Rebecca Liston wrote a new post https://www.plaidforwomen.com/?p=29676 Wed, 14 Oct 2020 12:30:39 -0500 What is the unique contribution that each of us, every woman on the planet, can make?  What each of us alone can do is live our individual story.  There are no two stories exactly the same anywhere on our earth.   […]

]]> 0c1e094975cb6dcc0d6eb6d6c579e6a7 Rebecca Liston wrote a new post https://www.plaidforwomen.com/?p=29674 Tue, 13 Oct 2020 12:30:48 -0500 Over these past pandemic-ridden several months, I have been revisiting many books in my ‘at home’ library. The Compound Effect by Darren Hardy (the founding editor of Success magazine) is one such book. I love it. […]

]]> 4bc6a231dc9b5ca49e55023fabe28a95 Rebecca Liston wrote a new post https://www.plaidforwomen.com/?p=29672 Mon, 12 Oct 2020 12:30:06 -0500 Contribution, its meaning and its importance looks different for most of us.  For me, the thought of contribution can quickly feel like I’m not doing enough, there’s not enough to go around and obviously,  I AM NO […]

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