by Becky Berry | Dec 24, 2021 | Career Coaching
As I was thinking about coming up with my word of the year for 2022 – a word that would guide my year, this word blew into my mind: knowing. I confess. I had to spend some thinking “Why knowing?” until I finally I realized that it was critically important to me to...
by Becky Berry | Sep 16, 2021 | Career Coaching
In our most recent episode, 147, of our Uniquely Brilliant podcast, Diana and I tackled the challenge of figuring out how to get to the next place when we don’t know what the next place is. As you can imagine, this topic stemmed from a conversation about making...
by Becky Berry | Jan 25, 2021 | Career Coaching, Life
Lately, I’ve been confronted with the disconnect between the universe’s timing and mine. There are things that I feel like I need right now: MAD! Work/Space (the coworking space I started in March – YIKES!) filled with women working and connecting, to fully own the...
by Becky Berry | Apr 23, 2020 | Career Coaching, Life
Recently I was asked to do a virtual presentation to a business networking group to provide motivation and encouragement for our membership of local small businesses. As I thought about what to talk about, this thought kept coming up, “What got you here will get...
by Becky Berry | Dec 30, 2019 | Life
From the end of December 2019. This week we have a new moon, an eclipse, and a new decade. It’s the perfect time to focus on embracing the light. Sounds great doesn’t it? It’s also hard. Here’s what I’ve learned through excruciating experience. I rarely recognize the...
by Becky Berry | Nov 11, 2019 | Career Coaching
That piece of head trash, it impacts how we experience the world. It impacts how events occur to us. We see things as evidence of what we believe to be true. – Erin Pheil I heard this last week as I was listening to a favorite podcast, Productive Flourishing. The...
by Becky Berry | Jun 19, 2019 | Career Coaching
Here’s one of my favorite quotes – it perfectly describes my relationship with money and books: When I have a little money, I buy books; and if I have any left, I buy food and clothes. ― Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus For your summer delectation, here are my current...
by Becky Berry | May 8, 2019 | Career Coaching
So, I’m reading the Harvard Business Review this morning. Their cover story is Why Feedback Fails. I laugh. I laugh because I know why feedback fails in businesses – for the same reason it fails in school and in life in general. Feedback fails when...
by Becky Berry | Jan 26, 2019 | Career Coaching, Life
If you’re not breathing, it’s a circus trick. – Sonya This first time I heard Sonya say that in yoga, I unlocked my jaw, stopped biting my lip, gulped for air, then burst out laughing. Obviously, it struck a chord with me. About the 12th time I heard it, I...
by Becky Berry | Nov 9, 2018 | Career Coaching
Really. Stop. Polishing the glass ceiling is insidious because we don’t even realize we’re doing it. It happens when we ask a question, ask for permission, look for validation or apologize for taking a risk. I did it this morning with my own 25 year old son, Ken. I’m...
