In this episode of the podcast, I interview this inspiring author who tells her story of struggle and perseverance…and how to seek the treasure of your own true self.  Join us as we talk about some of the following:

• bottom of the class
• failure, and failing “out of everything!”
• learning disabilities
• low self-esteem
• getting fired
• getting jobs “I had no business applying for”
• how one single person can make a difference in your whole life trajectory
• how you never know the impact you are making
• Dianne’s tendency to “throw her hat in the ring” and just DO stuff
• finding God
• how she came to writing
• getting out of your own way
• learning about how to write
• resourcefulness
• her mother and jail
• having personal power and be able to recognize that you do
• don’t be the one to put the brakes on your own life
• finding your true self

Sometimes you are stuck in a job you hate, or a work situation you hate, and the first tendency is to want to run screaming off in another direction and figure stuff out after you make your very dramatic exit.

My advice is to WAIT!

There are 7 things you can do that might make a huge difference, whether you decide to stay in the end or not.

Take a listen.

If you want to advance your career, you need a plan and to develop some daily habits to help you execute your plan. Join this episode as Jenn first pays tribute to the late great Canadian Gord Downie, and then shares 9 things you can do to advance your career….all during a wind storm!

There are lots of really good reasons why resigning from a job in a professional and graceful way is a good idea. You maintain your reputation, your dignity and your relationship. Find out what to do before, during and after resigning in this podcast episode…and find out also who Garth Vader is and why he’s SO darned cute!

You might say, it depends on your career-choice, and what choices you make in your life. Join Jenn and guest Jurgen Schmechel, a relationship coach with loads of corporate experience, as we talk about how to do both well.

Goal-setting is something I think everyone should do, and surprisingly, lots of people actually don’t. (I’m not talking about New Year’s resolution-style either…I mean goals of every kind for all sorts of areas of your life.) When you do get around to actually setting a goal..what happens next? Often, the goals are “derailed” by our own mistakes.

In this episode, I walk you through 7 mistakes that commonly appear when you decide to do something…when you set a goal, whether it’s a career goal, a personal goal, a dietary or financial goal…a relationship goal…whatever it is…these are some of the mistakes that get made that end up derailing the goal so it doesn’t happen…which is sad!

Join me to go through them and then see how you can avoid or counteract making them in the first place.

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Overwhelm is that feeling you have when you just want to get off the spinning world for a while…when there is too much to do and you don’t want to do any of it…when it’s too much that it paralyzes you and you spend time procrastinating because there is too much to do that you don’t know where to start.

Have you ever experienced this?

You can experience overwhelm when your work life and your home life are too full, when you feel the pressure to perform or when you are a perfectionist and things are not going perfectly…when you set your own super high expectations and then have trouble living up to them…when you are a control freak (and lots of us are) and you feel like you are losing control…when you have to learn a TON of new stuff and you feel like your brain is full and you can’t retain one more tidbit of information or your brain will explode…when you are running out of energy for things that require energy, when you are full of worry and anxiety…when you are fed up.

Any or all of these things can be signs of overwhelm and it’s very, very common. Life is stressful sometimes, and even the most together person…or rather the person who appears to be the most together on the outside…can be suffering from overwhelm.

Join me in this podcast where I walk you through an exercise that will overcome your overwhelm and turn it into an organized plan of action. Get from overwhelm to organized FAST. Grab some sticky notes and a pen, clear a space on the table, give yourself a block of time to spend with me, and I will get you from overwhelmed to organized in short order.