My guest this week is Parisian and Armenian Coach Marie-Louise Pereira who helps the many coachees she serves all over the globe better understand our values,  our purpose and with a vital end goal: To avoid burnout.

With around 75% of US and European professionals reporting feelings of worker burnout, never has it become more pressing to understand the signs--and to use our sense of purpose to help us stay on track, working and living in healthy, meaningful ways.

Coach Pereira shares her first-hand knowledge of burnout and what she loves about serving clients on this important topic.

To learn more about Coach Pereira and ways to reduce stress while improving your performance, visit her LinkedIn profile here.

Want to know more about communications and narrative coaching with Debbi? Find her website here or book her for a private session via Calendly. Group coaching sessions on business writing and speaking coming this fall! 

If you're like me, you're often sharing your ideas in a free-flow way wanting to make sense of things as you go. While external processing's lovely for big-idea people,  from the field I hear a real appetite for bottom lining big, but not fully-formed key ideas. The need for some structure and brevity feels especially vial in ad hoc situations, like group meetings, and in ways which hook and retain often distracted audiences.

In this week's podcast, consider these tried and tested techniques to share and frame ideas, even rambling ones, in ways where your audience follows, truly listens, and sees the shiny, clearing in the woods, just like you do.

Want to know more about communications and narrative coaching with Debbi? Find her website here or book her for a private taster session via Calendly. Group coaching sessions on business writing and speaking coming this fall! 

My guest today is Jayne Willoughby, a professional coach and artist based in rural Alberta, Canada. Jayne's a true Sage Sayer who's found the gifts and opportunities through life's inevitable setbacks. Jayne's cheerfully reinvented herself multiple times across multiple industries including nursing, psychiatry, and now coaching. She's a certified coach focusing on mental fitness and using art, something she's immensely gifted at, to help others find their strength, calm, and purpose. 

In our interview with this award-winning artist, we learn the gifts, opportunities, and knowledge Jayne's gathered from her colorful careers. We learn too how she finds creativity becomes a wonderful tool for grounding, finding clarity, purpose--and even improving and maintaining our health.

Interested in working with Jayne? Find her website here. Curious about communications and narrative coaching with Debbi? Find her website here or book her for a private taster session via Calendly. 

Performance reviews can trigger angst in all of us — and not surprising really because so much feels at stake. And yet, applying a blend of mental fitness, communications coaching, and journalistic strategy, you’ll find efficiency, clarity, and results.   Consider these five approaches to minimize the guess work (and worry) with your next performance review.

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There's real folly right now in not writing in clear, accessible, and audience-centered ways. Here in the U.S., the home for The Sage Sayers, 30% of workers plan to resign from their jobs and Gallup polls track around 70% feel dejected and not interested in work.

In this week's podcast, I'm sharing tips and techniques for bottom lining key information in your next robust informative message. Whether you're emailing leaders about your stellar performance or alerting a team of a morale boosting initiative, this podcast offers all you need to keep the message crisp, compelling, well structured, and therefore read by many. 

Have a communication challenge to tackle with Coach Debbi? Sign up here for a sample session. Her next communication workshop on active listening lives here and then our first narrative coaching workshop here. Or you can visit her website.

If you're like me, you want to share your story willy-nilly without much thought for strategy. But Coach Pam Knox, my guest this week, advises nothing beyond purposeful, strategic storytelling. Unless we have purpose and know our audience, we'll not be targeted, nor will our message resonate, she says.

Coach Pam's a global business strategist, storyteller and communication coach helping her clients confidently leverage their authentic story as an empowering strength.  In our interview, we unpack best practices on getting our story across, the role mental fitness plays, and the joy in storytelling, which often starts in our youth.

For more information on Coach Pam Knox, visit her website. To book 1:1 or team communications coaching with me, your show host, try my Calendly link. Or, join my next narrative coaching workshop. 

In this week's episode of the Sage Sayers,  I’m narrating Chapter One of the Perfect Novel of My Life. This narrative coaching and mental fitness exercise builds discovery of our inherent gifts to the world and the gifts, knowledge, and the opportunities within each challenging situation. 

I learned this exercise through the Positive Intelligence mental fitness program under the training and leadership of Coach Shirzad Chamine. I loved the experience so much, I created my own hybrid version combining journalism, narrative coaching, and storytelling. 

The result: Self awareness. Storytelling excerpts no marketer can possibly find and confidence.  Also, comfort and clarity from knowing the source of our strengths and values and how and where we learned them. 

Enjoy Chapter One, based in New Zealand's wilderness and chronicling excerpts of the first five years of life and all that was swirling around me as I grew up.

Have a communication challenge to tackle with Coach Debbi? Sign up here for a sample session. Her next communication workshop on active listening lives here and then our first narrative coaching workshop here. Or you can visit her website.

My guest this week is Colby McCullough, a supply chain expert with a combined 24 years of experience in the aerospace and consumer goods industries.  He grew up in New Orleans and holds a BS in Structural Engineering and an MBA in Operations Research from Carnegie Mellon.  

Colby now directs the supply chain analytics at a large, Mid West consumer goods company where he and his team develop analytical tools and reporting to ensure the supply chain runs most efficiently (a great thing, especially within these disruptive, singular times). Clear, succinct, and compelling communications, a craft we can all continue to refine, becomes essential, he says. 

How do I know Colby? Because he’s my dear husband and at his side, I’ve seen his career flourish (and him learning and thriving) from the challenges before him--a true Sage response.

Have a communication challenge to tackle with Coach Debbi? Sign up here for a taster session. Her next communication workshop on active listening lives here and then our first narrative coaching workshop here. Or you can visit her website.

My guest this week is Charles Cranston Jett, a certified coach specializing in career management, critical skill development, and career crises. Charles got here through years of management consulting and executive search experience, especially CEOs and those reporting to CEOs. He also finds calm from lessons and wisdom learned from his former Navy leaders.

Charles reminds us of the power of pivoting, retooling, and reinventing our careers; staying passionate about what we do, and using mental fitness (achieving your full potential from a positive vs. negative mindset) as a vital tool.

You can find more about Charles and his services here and follow his podcast here.  His leadership books are featured on Amazon.

You can book me for a complimentary coaching session via my Calendly link. Or, sign up for my latest communications workshop. My goal and gift always: Helping you replace fear and discomfort with courage and joy when communicating with spooky and high-stakes audiences. 

In this week's podcast, we offer tips and strategies on asking for a raise, promotion, or improved rates and terms with a contract. This podcast provides a revised audio version to Coach Debbi's article on feeling brave as we persuade, published this week on Medium, which you can find here.

Have a communication challenge to tackle with Coach Debbi? Sign up here for a session. Her next communication workshop lives here.