by Now What?® Coaching Founder, Laura Berman Fortgang The doors are closed, You knock and knock, No one answers, So you decide to wait. Do so at your own risk, I say. For more than a decade, I’ve been watching more and more clients struggle with their industries changing drastically, shrinking and in some cases,…
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Spin A Different Yarn
by Now What?® Coaching Founder, Laura Berman Fortgang Stories make up a big part of who we are. It’s how we relate to our past, it’s how we create our future, it’s how we entertain ourselves and sometimes, how we escape. In coaching, especially career change coaching, stories believed too stubbornly can be exactly what is…
Lost In Reality
by Now What?® Coaching Founder, Laura Berman Fortgang Once upon a time, we had an idealistic notion that led us to a certain career path. It made so much sense and it made us feel good. Fast forward five, ten or twenty years and we are not happy doing what we do. What happened? It…
Facing the Grizzly
by Now What?® Coaching Founder, Laura Berman Fortgang When one goes to Denali National Park and Preserve in Alaska, like I did this month, you are given repeated instructions on how to deal with a Grizzly Bear should you encounter one. You don’t run. That would trigger the bears’ chase instinct and they will outrun…
What My Kid’s Summer Job Can Teach You
What does a 12-year old’s summer job have to do with you? It may reflect a critical point where you have strayed from your Life Blueprint®*. In considering what your next career move might be, it’s important to consider the critical pieces you left behind long ago that might come back into your life now…
Protect Yourself from Yack, Yack, Yack
Have you ever been sitting in the waiting room for an interview or other important meeting where people start yacking? Some are bragging, some are just answering questions from the braggart, and some are trying to stay out of it but suffering through the noise unable to block it out. Sound familiar? Which one are…