by Now What?® Coaching Founder, Laura Berman Fortgang I’m coming off of a Mexican spa vacation and celebrating my 50th birthday by performing my one-woman show in New York City. This year also includes my husband’s fiftieth birthday and our 20th wedding anniversary. The teenager will get his permit this summer, the tweens are in their…
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AM I Crazy?
by Now What?® Coaching Founder, Laura Berman Fortgang You think you’re nuts because you are considering leaving your job or making a big change. Your friends say you’re crazy because you are walking away from a sure thing. Your spouse is not talking to you because you are threatening the status quo and you’re now…
GRATITUDE For A Crappy Boss
by Now What?® Coaching Founder, Laura Berman Fortgang Hours of complaining and reliving the drama. Days spent brooding and plotting how to get what you need. Sleep wasted by workplace despair. The plight of a crappy boss can be overwhelming and destructive but truly, it can become a good thing if held up to the…
Halloween: Addressing the DARK Side
By Laura Berman Fortgang For years, we coaches have insisted that coaching is distinct from therapy. It is, but we are trained to recognize the dark side of life and personalities and we are not afraid of it. It comes up. It happens. In the spirit of Halloween, and the sometimes-scarier aspect of ourselves, there…
“HOW” Is The Enemy of Progress
by Now What?® Coaching Founder, Laura Berman Fortgang In working with a recent client, I was once again reminded of how easily we can get stopped by the ‘how’ of making our deepest desires a reality. It makes sense. How can we proceed if we don’t know how to do so? However, over the years,…
HOW DID I GET HERE?
by Now What?® Coaching Founder, Laura Berman Fortgang It’s like waking up in the middle of a bad dream. You abruptly realize you have no idea where you are and how you got there. Am I in a hotel? Am I home? Where is the usual light under my door? It’s unsettling, confusing and spooky…