Is your underwear inside out? A Reality Check.
Reality Check: Is Your Foundation in a Bundle? A couple of years ago I was working with a coaching client who was having a really off day. It was like everything she touched went haywire, and she was helplessly watching a lot of the things she had built fall away. ...
Who Wants To Be A Thought Leader Anyway?
Last week, Lynn Baldwin-Rhoades of Power Chicks, asked me a few questions about thought leaders, intuition and how thought leaders are just PR-created forces in the marketplace. What do you think? Here's what I think: Q: As a culture, we’re becoming increasingly...
Are You Still making Yourself Wrong Because They May Be Right?
I’ve been holding myself back. Yep. Playing small. Letting my fear of what people will think rule my business. I have been watching myself shrink more and more as I have made bigger and bigger investments in myself, my business, and as I have gotten more...
Courage: A seed is all you need
I haven't played with these cards* in several years. Today I got the hit to pull them out again before I began writing. Courage showed up in my reading this morning and it perfectly describes the process of becoming a thought leader, of becoming conscious and aware...
The Movie Avatar: Learning To Fly Your Brand
Flying Your Brand (The following is an excerpt from my upcoming book: Life Well Spoken: Free Your Inner Voice & Prosper. I'm sharing this as I unveil my new brand at krisprochaska.com and I'm reminded how much I LOVE the process of self-growth and...
Why Therapy & Coaching Don’t Work (sometimes)
Why Am I Not Getting Better? There’s A Reason Why Therapy & Coaching Don’t Work (sometimes) what the heck is it? I was thinking on my run today that we humans are motivated by 2 main forces: love and fear, or put another way: possibility and pain. Most people...
Slimy Conversations: When the icky feeling isn’t yours but something you “caught” from others
Today’s post is short because I did a quick interview with Debby Handrich of Life Mastery Radio* about how we show up in our conversations really affects other people and our results. As you listen to this brief recording-it’s about 20min long, notice where you feel...
Middle Mind Myth #3
These are the myths that keep us stuck in the middle. That crazy-making place of mediocrity, fogginess, and dashed dreams. I'm dropping some Inner Voice BombsTM to explode these myths and help us all move out of the middle and into becoming thought-leaders in our...
Conversations That Kill Possibility
Ever had one of these conversations in your personal life or business?** It started innocently enough. A couple text messages between us celebrating a win and a “date” with my husband, Mike, to discuss more later after he got home that night. I had no other plans to...
Emotional Follower, Middle Manager, Thought Leader: Which are you today?
I recently recorded a new Mp3 called Journey From Emotional Follower to Thought Leader. [If you haven't picked it up yet, it's part of my Breaking Free From The Middle Kit. You can get immediate access and download the recording on the right of your screen)] Here’s...