Personal Development – Page 9 – Breakthrough To Success Blog

Business Coaching Tip: Be a Well-Informed and Intelligent Risk Taker

To be a well-informed and intelligent risk taker, you must learn from your mistakes. It may not be the most fun way to learn, but people who achieve personal success turn lemons into lemonade by finding the positive lesson in everything that happens.

Always put yourself in a position of learning. The more you continue your personal success education, the fewer mistakes you’ll make and the quicker you’ll know how to correct them.

Read at least one book a month on a subject about which you want to learn more. Read one magazine or newsletter a month to stay on the cutting edge of your profession.

Just imagine how different your life will be a year from now when you have read and implemented this additional information for your professional development. What would that level of information do for your ability to be an intelligent risk taker?

Action Step for your Professional Development: Start reading the classics from this ‘Business Coaching, Personal Success Reading List’:

Magic of Believing by Claude Bristol
Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill
Psycho-Cybernetics by Maxwell Maltz
Acres of Diamonds by Russell Conwell
As a Man Thinketh by James Allen
The Richest Man in Babylon by George Clason

Find these personal success classics on www.half.com or www.amazon.com; they should be part of your permanent library. These professional development books work on your mindset, so it’s fitting that you start reading them now.

Implementing is the key. Reading professional development books may be intellectually stimulating, but you’re wasting your time if no practical application follows.

A good business coaching tip for getting more out of your reading is to take notes as if you had to teach the professional development material when you finish. You’ll learn on a much deeper level every time you do.

Part of being an intelligent risk taker is learning to be flexible, resourceful and resilient. To achieve a breakthrough to success you’ll need to learn to respond creatively and imaginatively by seeing the big picture. Intelligent risk takers bounce back from resistance. Think outside the box by being flexible enough to look at other perspectives and options.

Personal success comes from continuing to the finish in the face of resistance. Flexibility gives you the power to return to your center. Get expert advice and then follow your own intuition. Let me tell you what happened to me when I didn’t follow this advice.

Twenty years ago a respected person in my community was involved in gold mining investments. He said he had received a lot of money from gold mining investments the previous year. I had a gut feeling that something wasn’t right, but I dismissed my intuition because he ‘knew more about this kind of thing than I did’.

It was my first investment and it was substantial. I trusted this person and felt even better about it when I found out a couple of my coworkers were investing, as well.

Based solely on this guy’s recommendation, and doing no research on my own, I invested. Long story short, about a year later, I received a letter from a government agency telling me the whole thing was a scam. I was so embarrassed and felt so stupid, I never told anyone (except for you).

These days I have a different investment strategy. Instead, I recommend that you spend your money on being mentored by an expert. Every new thing I’ve learned in the last few years has been through the time and money invested in an expert mentor. In the end I have saved immeasurable time and tons of money! Now I have profits instead of losses because of advice from mentors.

Mentors are invaluable. There’s no such thing as a self-made millionaire. Everyone has help. You can go a long way toward life mastery and personal success with books and tapes. Eventually you want to have mentors with whom you communicate and interact on a regular basis. There are great mentors to be found right in your own hometown.

Lynn Pierce, the Success Architect, has taught people how to combine business and personal development to reach the pinnacle of success and live the life of their dreams for over 25 years. In addition, she is also the founder of one of the most exciting annual events for women entrepreneurs, “Women’s Business Empowerment Summit”. Now she shares her keys to success and life mastery with you. You can get the first five lessons of “Change One Thing, Change Your Life: A Personal Transformation System” at www.yourbreakthroughtosuccess.com.

The Eye of the Tiger

Remember the theme song from the Rocky movie, “The Eye of the Tiger”?

When Rocky fought his opponent he had the focus of ‘the eye of the tiger’. When that song was written they couldn’t have had any idea the significance it would take on when a new Tiger took the world stage and changed sports forever.

I don’t care if you are a golf fan or a sports fan or if you think there is too much hype over this one particular athlete-yes golfers are athletes.

Tiger Woods is a force to be reckoned with. I could write a book about not only his accomplishments in the sports world, but also his accomplishments as a human being, but many books have already been written. In fact I wrote about Tiger in my book, “Breakthrough to Success”.

Look at what Tiger does in terms of how you live your life. Could you stand up to the level of excellence that Tiger requires of himself? If you raised your expectations do you think you would be performing head and shoulders above your competition?

I’ve always been a huge fan of his because not only is he a consummate professional, he has such intense focus that you can see it on his face when you watch him on TV. I have also had the pleasure of standing just a few feet from him on more than one occasion and watching that focus in person.

Over and over again I heard the announcers at the tournament talking about how nobody would believe this if it was a movie. It would just be too much of a fantasy and the whoever wrote a screenplay that played out like this would be laughed out of a movie mogul’s office. I don’t know if I’ve ever seen a movie or a sporting event with this many interesting characters and twists and turns.

Tiger is larger than life and his life is richer, more nuanced and more interesting than any movie script. And this weekend he was Rocky, but he wasn’t fighting an opponent, he was doing what his dad had taught him. He was playing full out because that’s the only way to do it.

There were so many amazing shots from this one tournament, you can probably find them all on Youtube. But it’s not about the shots. It’s about the measure of the man. During the tournament some of his fellow golfers, who should feel really ashamed of themselves right now, wondered out loud through their pettiness and jealousy how hurt Tiger really was.

Tiger on the other hand downplayed his injury to not take the focus off the U.S. Open while he played through incredible pain that would have made almost any other player call it quits, especially when he was so far back that it didn’t look like he had any chance at all of winning.

And yet, Tiger not only didn’t quit, he forced a playoff and played another 19 holes on Monday. And then he made the impossible inevitable by winning…again!

Watching him play in the U.S. Open at Torrey Pines for 4 days instead of the usual 3 was a treat and at the same time painful. My heart ached every time I saw him wince when he hit the ball or when his caddy pulled him up by the arm when he couldn’t get up by himself or when the pain of taking another stroke had him almost doubled over in pain.

And I wondered how he could keep going, where did he find the inner strength to focus enough to pull it out day after day?

Ironically during the tournament there was a commercial running with audio of his dad talking about how Tiger would never meet anyone else as mentally tough as him in his entire life.

Here’s the link to the Youtube video to watch it.

http://www.youtube.com/v/UTuk5Uloyjg&hl=en

He certainly proved his dad right that weekend. I’m sorry I won’t be seeing him play the rest of the summer, but I know he’ll be back next year better than ever because striving for excellence is just his natural way of being.

The question is, is it yours?

If you would like personal mentoring, send me an email detailing what you would like help with. As your mentor I hold a bigger vision for you than you hold for yourself. When you have faith and a team that believes in you, it gives you courage. When you don’t have to do it all yourself, all things are possible for you. Commit today to go for your dream 100%.

I would love to have you share your opinions and personal insights on my blog where I’ll also post this article.

http://www.YourBreakthroughToSuccess.com/blog

How To Master Happiness Like Tim Russert

This article is not an obituary, it’s not a rehash of the news or just a tribute to a truly wonderful example of a fully engaged man.

As you read this I want you to think about how you live your life. Not from the standpoint of dying suddenly, but from the point of wholeness and the level of joy and passion you live every day with. When you have every reason to believe you have all the time in the world and you still live your life to it’s fullest, that is a truly remarkable life.

I was as shocked as anyone to hear of Tim Russert’s passing and also surprised by how hard it hit me and then how hard it hit other women I know. People really felt a connection with him. I don’t even remember how many years I’ve been watching Meet the Press, but I do know it’s been a very long time. Even when I’m traveling I try to see it before I go down to the meeting room or go out for the day when I’m on vacation.

One of the first things I thought of was how much he loved the Buffalo Bills, probably because every time he said “Go Bills” at the end of his broadcast during football season, I would silently say the same thing about my team, the Packers. I shared his passion for football so it made me feel more connected to him.

He was serious about his commitment to make a difference in his profession and he had that same commitment to everything in his life he cared about. I haven’t often seen an example of someone who has such a high level of passion and commitment to every area of their life.

Tim’s father and his son were well known people to regular viewers of his show, so much so that with all the coverage I’ve seen, every time his son is mentioned he is called ‘Tim’s beloved son Luke’.

He wrote 2 books that are best sellers, the first about his relationship with his dad, “Big Russ and Me”, which was followed by “Wisdom of Our Fathers” based on the 1000’s of letters he received from people who wanted to pay tribute to their fathers. (There’s a hint for you information marketers)

Enthusiasm is a great word to connect with Tim. He had a zest for life. He was passionate about his faith, his work, his family, his hometown of Buffalo, his sports teams and Bruce Springsteen.

He lived and loved fully and openly and all those he loved clearly knew it. I’ve never seen so many stoic journalists emotional on camera, because they cared so deeply about this man. He was a cheerleader to everyone who worked for and with him over the years and their families, not just his own family.

He was fiercely loyal to his friends, a quality I admire very much. He was close personal friends with Republicans, Democrats and his closest competitors.

He lived his life to the fullest, passionately and with purpose, never losing touch with his blue collar upbringing; and more than just remembering where he came from, he embraced and supported Buffalo-and Buffalo loved him back.

For a man with so many professional accomplishments, who he was as a man has over-shadowed the talk of who he was as a journalist. I think that’s something we could all aspire to.

He told his son he loved him every day. He loved hanging out with his son & his friends. He never missed an event in his son’s life.

His family seems to be more at peace than I’ve seen with other tragic deaths. While giving his eulogy, his son smiled proudly while talking about his father. I wonder if that comes from a sense of not having things unsaid or undone, knowing that you lived your life and shared your feelings every day?

If there was ever a case of someone who was able to say, “If I died today, I’d die a happy man”, it would be Tim Russert.

In Tim’s words, “Let us all go get ’em.”

Go Bills!

I would love to have you share your opinions and personal insights on my blog where I’ll also post this article.

http://www.YourBreakthroughToSuccess.com/blog

What’s New

Quote to Contemplate

“A mind stretched beyond its original form can never return to that form.”

Albert Einstein

Are you stretching?

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What’s New
I’m still in Scottsdale and it looks like I may be here until after Women’s Business Empowerment Summit and it’s starting to get hot! At least we’re not having some of the awful weather other parts of the country are.

I’m always interested in weather because having lived in resort areas all over the U.S. and Mexico, and with the amount of travel I do, I’m usually personally familiar with the areas I see talked about on the news.

It’s just human nature that we’re more interested in things we feel connected to. I want you to feel like you know each and every one of our faculty members for WBES and that’s why we do the teleseminar series where you get to meet each one and get tips and techniques you can use in your business and your life before you even get to the live event.

Don’t miss our WBES training call tonight with Kevin Nations.
You’ll learn:

How you can double or even triple the prices of your professional services and then to have your clients thank you for it

How to get maximum value and a waiting list of clients for your professional services

And so much more…

Kevin is the Ultimate Profit Mentor who likes to have fun and make a ton of money in the process. His strategies are designed to create the leverage and the focus to take his clients through the six figure monthly income barrier.

I’m very excited to let you know that the Women’s Business Empowerment Summit is quickly filling up. With the first 5 preview training calls done and many more to come before the August 1-3rd summit, we have over 1100 of you registered for the series, so if you aren’t listening, register now. You’ll get the links to all the replays in your welcome email.

http://www.WomensBusinessEmpowermentSummit.com

Remember to join the conversation on my blog where you’ll also find each week’s ezine posted for your comments.

Do You Know How To Get What You Really Want?

There is no difference between the way you manifest in your personal life or your business life. The fears that are lurking in the deep recesses of your mind are the same obstacles that prevent you from having what you want in either area of your life.

Everything you truly desire is manifesting in your life now. The question is what are you really asking for?

If you’re not sure, look at what’s in your life.

You have created what your thoughts give the most attention to. You may on a conscious level desire one thing, but on a sub-conscious level feel undeserving and over-rule yourself with self-sabotaging internal dialogue.

If you are concentrating on something in your life that you are trying to get rid of, remember the law of the Universe stating, “What you resist persists.”

You won’t get the (person, body, home, car) of your dreams by concentrating on how much you don’t want what you have. Acknowledge where you are and concentrate on the positive goal you will achieve.

For example, “I now have the perfect _______ for me. I am truly happy and grateful.”

Be aware of what you say to yourself 24/7. How did you feel just now reading that you have in your life exactly what you really feel you deserve?

Take a look at where those feelings came from. Are you trying to avoid being in charge of your life by putting the responsibility for your situation on someone else?

Affirmations and written goals are a good way to stay focused. Do you have written goals? Do you repeat them out loud at least 4 times a day?

Write your 3 top goals right now.

Accept your life as it is now. While you are resisting some part of your life your energy is focused on something that is not the way you want it.

Can you accept the realization that your life is the way it is because of the choices you’ve made based on the information you had?

Now you can let go and stop blaming either yourself or someone else. There is no longer a need to explain or defend. You did what you could with what you had. End of story!

You can let go and make different choices based on new information. When you no longer have an attachment to what you don’t like in your life, you create an opening for something better.

While you are still hanging on, trying to force something to change, there is no open space for anything better to enter your life. Let go, be open and be ready to surprise yourself.

Most likely there is something you want to do that you’re not or you would like to stop doing something you don’t like. Either way, you are resisting taking more productive action.

What are you resisting in your life?

What do you have to gain by letting go?

What steps are you going to take now to let go and make room for something better?

I would love to have you share your opinions and personal insights on my blog where I’ll also post this article.

http://www.YourBreakthroughToSuccess.com/blog

“5 Keys to Developing the Courage to Go for Your Dreams”

How do you develop the courage to go for your dreams?

That’s the million-dollar question, isn’t it? Because if you don’t learn how, it will not only cost you the millions you could have earned, it will cost you the realization of your passion and your purpose.

It’s a lot of fun planning the vision for your life and the action steps you’re going to take to live your passion. It’s another thing to keep moving forward as it all starts to become real. That’s where the fear sets in and you start to wonder what ever made you think you could do this.

Here are 5 keys to developing the courage to go for your dreams:

1. Move Past the Fear

I’m sorry to tell you I haven’t found a magic pill for this. It has to come from inside of you. Nobody can do it for you. And it all starts with your vision.

There is so much more to creating a vision for your life than just discovering your passion. There’s so much more than just writing down some goals. I would venture to say that you’ve done that before and it wasn’t enough to get you where you want to go.

Fear not! There’s a system for creating a vision for your life, just as there is a system for anything else you want to be successful at. The question is whether you will take the time to learn it.

Discovering your purpose was only the first step. To walk through your fear, you have to be clear on where you are going.

2. Create a Strong Vision

You need a vision that is so strong you can’t possibly walk away from it.

Once you have a strong, compelling vision that’s based on your passion and purpose in life, how could you let anything stop you?

When you know what you want and you’ve visualized it over and over and over until it becomes part of who you are, how could you stop?

When you see yourself in the life you will have upon the realization of you vision, how could you stop?

The answer is, you can’t! You can’t stop; it’s impossible! You can drag out the process, but as hard as you try, you can’t stop!

3. Stop Projecting Future Catastrophes

Are you aware that 95% of the things you spend your time worrying about never happen? So, isn’t worrying about the outcome of things you haven’t done yet ridiculous?

Once you realize you’ve invested so much of yourself into your vision that there’s nothing that’s going to stop you from creating everything you’ve envisioned, what’s the point in letting your fears delay the inevitable?

And it is inevitable. With the vision you’ve created, you’ve tapped into the Universal Laws and everything you need is being drawn to you as we speak.

You’ve used the law of attraction by being clear on what you want and asking for it. You’ve used the law of creating a vacuum by clearing out a lot of the things that no longer fit in your life to make space available for something better to show up. Think about it.

You can run and you can hide, but eventually everything you visualize will come to you if you take all the necessary steps. So why fight it? This is what you want more than anything, isn’t it?

Are you crazy?

Why would you spend your time discovering your passion and creating a vision for it if you had no intention of following through?

Are you the kind of person who does things like this for an intellectual exercise?

Well guess what, the joke’s on you. You’ve created a process you can’t stop. It will move forward whether you have chickened out or not. So what’s the point in trying to avoid your future success?

4. Get Out of the Way

When did you want something so bad you could taste it and then decide you were too scared to go for it?

The only courage you need to go for your dreams is the courage to get out of your own way. Just take a deep breath and move aside.

If you look back over your life, I’m sure you can find many examples when you did just this.

So the next time you feel like your courage to go for your dream has abandoned you, just tell yourself there is no reason to fight it. Falling into your fears can postpone your success for a while, but you can’t stop it, so why even try.

Get back on that horse and keep riding to the finish line.

5. You’ve Always Had It, Dorothy

The good news is you don’t have to worry about how you’ll develop the courage to go for your dreams. You already have it.

When you feel like it’s too big for you to go on, look at how far you’ve come already.

The bottom line regarding courage comes from the Wizard of Oz.

Towards the end of the movie, Dorothy thinks she’ll never go home. Just then Glinda the good witch shows up. She tells her she’s always had the power to go back to Kansas but she didn’t tell her before because she wouldn’t have believed her. She had to learn it for herself.

But to find out how to unleash the power she had inside, she needed to ask for help. Don’t be afraid to ask for what you need.

So my little Dorothy, you’ve always had the power inside you. All you have to do is have someone show you where it is. You’re so much stronger than you give yourself credit for.

Get a mentor if you aren’t achieving what you want as fast as you want it. You may need an outside perspective and a little refocusing. Because when your actions and your purpose are in alignment everything falls into place. Things just flow. I can help you get there.

I’d be happy to mentor you to successfully:

* Make your dreams a reality

* Develop specific, targeted goals

* Take action on your goals

* Create a plan that gives you the courage

* Create a simple step-by-step personalized blueprint to follow

Lynn Pierce, the Success Architect, has taught people how to combine business and personal development to reach the pinnacle of success and live the life of their dreams for over 25 years. In addition, she is also the founder of one of the most exciting annual events for women entrepreneurs, “Women’s Business Empowerment Summit”. Now she shares her keys to success and life mastery with you. If you aren’t reading this on my blog, you can get the first five lessons of “Change One Thing, Change Your Life: A Personal Transformation System” at http://www.yourbreakthroughtosuccess.com

I would love to have you share your opinions and personal insights on my blog where I’ll also post this article.

http://www.YourBreakthroughToSuccess.com/blog

Dr. Fern Kazlow Rapid Wealth Sytem Training Call

Every Tuesday through the 29th of July I will host a 1 hour raining call.

Tuesday the 3rd of June 2008 I will be interviewing Dr. Fern Kazlow on her Rapid Wealth System

You’ll learn how to:

Reach the next level in business and life (most people who work
with Dr. K double to quadruple income in 6-12 months)
Open the door to success no matter where you are now
Get big-take up your space & fill your bank account
Move through every fear that holds you back, break free of financialand any other limitation

and…
the one factor that determines your success or failure in every endeavor

Dr. Fern Kazlow is known as the “Get Big” Doctor. A psychotherapist, educator, healer, author, and entrepreneur, she founded one of the first holistic practices in New York City in 1981. She built it to a quarter-million-dollar center in less than a year at a time when mind-body health was seen on a par with voodoo.

Having come through life-threatening illness and challenging situations, Dr. Kazlow learned a lot about taking control of your life and refusing to get stuck in pain and limitations. She has inspired tens of thousands of people with her courageous message of hope, determination and victory over any circumstance.

Dr. Kazlow has more than 25 years practice with Wall Street power players, hard-charging entrepreneurs, senior executives in New York publishing and banking industries, and other high achievers both nationally and internationally. She helps them dramatically increase their income and overall sense of well-being while staying true to their authentic power. She has appeared extensively in the media including TV, radio, magazines and newspapers. Dozens of Dr. Kazlow’s articles have appeared in print and online magazines.

Dr. Kazlow wants you to get big, take up your space and succeed in business and live a life that works.

What’s New

Quote to Contemplate

You can look at your circumstances and see what is lacking or you can look through your circumstances to the possibilitiy of something richer in your life.

~ Lynn Pierce

What do you choose to see?

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What’s New
I’m so excited about the number of you that have registered for the training series of calls for Women’s Business empowerment Summit. With the first 3 calls done and many more to come before the August 1-3rd summit, we have almost 1000 of you registered for the series, so if you are listening, register now. You’ll get the links to all the replays in your welcome email.

http://www.WomensBusinessEmpowermentSummit.com

I also want to let you know that the Memorial Day special discount on WBES expires at 5:00PM pacific time today. So go the the site above and grab your seat at the lowest price since 2004!

This week’s featured article comes from my observations of too many people looking for excuses for their lack of success. Enough said. Feel free to send it to the whiners and complainers in your life. Unfortunately it takes a lot for those
people to see themselves in anything, so you might use this to give them a nudge.

I know personally, I’m implementing a zero tolerance policy in my life and also my busienss. Our time is too valuable and better spent than responding to those who refuse to take responsibility for themselves.

Remember to join the conversation on my blog where you’ll also find each week’s ezine posted for your comments.

You Take the Good, You Take the Bad…And You Take Responsibility:10 Easy Steps to Successfully Get Where You Want to Go

Sometimes it’s hard to tell when a person is sincerely blocked by a particular situation that once removed would allow them to move forward. I like to give everyone the benefit of the doubt, but I’m finding that in most cases when you remove the block they still do nothing. This is very sad and at the same time, I realize that it is the major contributor to 97% of the wealth in the world being held by 3 % of the people.

Why does this happen?

Let me give you 3 scenarios for lack of follow through:

Before I do, let me just say that these are excuses, not acceptable reasons and you are still responsible for each of these possible choices you make
in your life.

You may not have a clear perspective on where you are mentally and emotionally as far as negative beleif systems you haven’t cleared or not being willing to look at your commitment level to moving forward.

It could be that deep down you really don’t want to do whatever it is you’re not following through on. I’ve done this over and over with Internet marketing programs I’ve bought and events I’ve gone to and even high priced mentoring.

Hey, I never said I was immune to this. But what I found was that I absolutely hated doing it, so I didn’t. And yet, since it’s part of my business, someone has to. It just doesn’t need to be you, I mean me.

Some of this also comes from fear of thinking you are all alone and you have to do it by yourself. If you are sincerely looking you can find help for whatever is blocking you, as deep and dark as you may think it is. You aren’t the only one facing your challenge and you just need to get the proper help to release this block.

Given those situations, if you don’t get clarity in a short time, then you need to look at the solution you’ve chosen. If it doesn’t lead to the results you want let it go, take it as a learning expereince and move on. Don’t try to blame someone else for your choices is the bottom line there.

I do a lot of training courses and live events and there is always something that if it were removed this person or that person could attend or they could succeed. On some occasions I have removed the block once I receive the same request from several people just to see who is real and how is whining.

If someone is sincere in their desire to move forward, they will not only jump on the opportunity once their particular block has been removed, they will follow through to the fullest extent in the course or what they learn at the event.

Many times a person has deluded themselves for so long that they may actually believe they are really ready to move forward when they aren’t, and
probably never will be.

I’m sure I’m not alone when I tell you that most of your potential mentors are more than happy to do what they can to accomodate your needs if you are eager to succeed. Sometimes it’s through more information, preview teleseminars, stretching out multiple payments, having different entry levels to their programs, early bird discount, etc.

But in the end, you are the one who must take action, not only to invest in yourself by buying a course or attending an event, but by taking the information you receive and implementing it. If you think there is something that needs to be added to the course, take responsibility for giving your feedback.

The actual percentage of people who follow through on implementing what they learn is extremely low. This is solely your responsibility.

If you truly are interested in taking responsibility for your life and creating a better life for yourself than the one you have now, there are some very simple steps you can follow.

10 Easy Steps to Successfully Get Where You Want to Go:
1. Clearly assess the reality of where you are now and why

2. Choose the correct path of action for the next logical step for you

3. Find the course or event or mentor that can help you get there

4. Be fully present and engaged during your time with your choice from step 3

5. Do all the work necessary to complete the process of step 3

6. Access your success of how well you were able to complete step 3

7. Ask for more help if you are not clear and needing further clarification

8. Give yourself a reasonable amount of time to gauge your success with this step

9. Repeat step 2-9 until you have achieved your desired result

10. Take your life to a higher level by starting again with step 1

If you would like more information on exactly what it means to take responsibility for your life and the amazing benefits of how this moves your life forward, scroll back to the January 21, 2008 post on this topic.

As always, I’d love to hear your thought about this on my blog.

Finding Your Authentic Voice and The Soul of the Career Woman

Every Tuesday through the 29th of July I will host a 1 hour training call.

Tuesday the 27th of May 2008 I will be interviewing Norma Hollis on Finding Your Authentic Voice and The Soul of the Career Woman

You’ll learn:

What your authentic voice is
How this relates to your soul
How this helps you become a better communicator
How can you assess your authentic voice
The impact this has on your career success

Norma T. Hollis is a master communicator known around the world as America’s
Authentic Voice Doctor. Norma combines a deep intuitive gift with an educational
background in early childhood development, certification as a spiritual director and
12 years as an entrepreneur in the professional speaking industry to evolve as a
gifted woman who helps people find, live, and share their authentic voice.

Norma has trained and coached entrepreneurs and speakers of all levels for
decades using her proprietary authenticity tools – a proven methodology that
allows anyone to discover their ‘authentic voice’ and experience a deeper level
of communication. What Norma has to share will challenge your thinking, revitalize
your communication, and provide a wellspring of ‘fresh’ communication tools.

Norma is a leading Authenticity Expert and CEO of the Norma Hollis Companies –
a family of communication companies that includes Speakers Etcetera, Black
Speakers Online, Diversity Speakers Online, Cash in on Voice and Norma Hollis
Speaks. An international public speaker, coach, author and entrepreneur, Norma
is the creator of The Authenticity Assessment which rates personal authenticity in
nine critical dimensions. She is the author of the newly released book “Ten Steps
to Authenticity: Creating a Rewarding and Satisfying Life” published by Rhythm of
the Drum. Norma lives her life authentically by sharing her authentic voice and
helping others to do the same.