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Kathy Caprino, M.A. is a nationally-recognized women’s work-life expert, executive and career coach, author, and speaker specializing in helping women gain empowerment and self-mastery to navigate successfully through major challenges. She is the author of the book Breakdown, Breakthrough: The...
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To help mid-life professional women in crisis self-assess and address the sudden realization that their work may no longe...
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Kathy Caprino posted a blog post
Are You Brave Enough To Live The Life You Long For? Most Aren’t. Here’s Why
I had an 18-year a corporate career, and on the outside it was very successful (I earned a lot of money, rose to the level of VP, managed large budgets and global initiatives, etc.), but on the inside, it was not successful. It was bumpy, challenging, and sometimes even harrowing. Throughout th...
April 19, 2017
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Kathy Caprino posted a blog post
Three Pivotal Questions To Ask Yourself Before The New Year
Working as I have for over 30 years – first as a corporate executive, then a marriage and family therapist, and now career coach, I’ve worked with thousands of people to overcome virtually every type of challenge that human beings grapple with. From overcoming traumatic childhoods, to repairi...
April 19, 2017
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Kathy Caprino posted a blog post
Top 10 Posts of 2016 From KathyCaprino.com – What They Reveal About Our Hidden Challenges
In looking back over 2016, I’ve written over 150 posts in my four blogs, including here on kathycaprino.com, and on Forbes, LinkedIn, and Huffington Post. In each blog and for each specific audience, I attempt to focus on particular messages, information, resources, and interviews that I hope...
April 19, 2017
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Kathy Caprino posted a blog post
The 6 Dominant Action Styles: How You Take Action And Why That’s Critical To Know
Part of my series “Living and Working Better” Over my 11 years of coaching professionals, five years as a therapist, and 18 years in corporate life, I’ve worked with and seen every type of person with every type of challenge you can imagine. Through the process of coaching and studying professi...
April 19, 2017
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Kathy Caprino posted a blog post
How To Figure Out What Matters Most To You, And Be True To Yourself
Part of my new series “Ask Kathy” Dear Kathy, I follow your work and love your messages about braving up and honoring what matters most, but I need your help on that. I’m a 54-year-old professional woman, and I’ve had a great run at a number of professional directions, including writing a ser...
April 19, 2017
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Kathy Caprino posted a blog post
Honoring Your Own Evolving Spirituality: Are You Ready?
Part of Kathy Caprino’s new series “Spirituality in Life, Work and Success” This week, I had a intriguing email exchange with a new colleague about some messages I shared in my recent Facebook Live video “How NOT Being True To Yourself Crushes Your Life.” In the video, I mention a painful exp...
April 19, 2017
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Kathy Caprino posted a blog post
A Beautiful , Healing Conversation With Spiritual Leader and Mystic Lorna Byrne
Part of Kathy Caprino’s new series “Spirituality, Joy and Success” This week, I had the absolute honor and thrill to converse in a live, 90-minute online call with international bestselling author, spiritual leader, Peace Ambassador and mystic Lorna Byrne. I discovered Lorna’s beautiful work r...
April 19, 2017
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Kathy Caprino posted a blog post
The 8 Most Damaging Ways People Let Themselves Down Every Day
Part of Kathy Caprino’s series “Braving Up To Build Your Best Life” As I enter my second decade of helping people build happier lives and livelihoods, I continually see that our professional successes and failures, and our crushed hopes, have everything to do with what we believe about oursel...
April 19, 2017
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Kathy Caprino posted a blog post
Why We Wait So Very Long To Do What Feels Right
Throughout my 34 years of working, I’ve experienced one very chronic pattern – I’ve tended to wait far too long (years, in certain cases) to do what I instinctively knew was right or that I deeply longed to do. Whether it was staying in business partnerships or relationships that somehow wer...
April 19, 2017
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Kathy Caprino posted a blog post
10 Things You Should Never Say To Your Children
Part of Kathy Caprino’s series “Parenting for Joy and Success” In my 12 years of work in the helping professions, first as a marriage and family therapist then as a career and personal success coach, I’ve been absolutely floored by what I’ve heard parents say and do that severely damages their ...
April 19, 2017
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Kathy Caprino posted a blog post
Successful People Who Love Their Work: The 4 Damaging Moves They Avoid
Being a researcher at heart, I love to explore key trends that reflect the deepest challenges professionals face. And if I can, I like to distill down to the bare essentials the vital lessons that successful professionals and career changers have gleaned from their respective journeys. People w...
September 30, 2016
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Kathy Caprino posted a blog post
We Say We Want To Be More Authentic, But Our Behavior Reveals Something Different
If you’re on Facebook, I’m sure you’ve had discussions with your friends as I have about how we work so hard (consciously or subconsciously) to make our lives look great to others on these public forums. A friend of mine said “I wish my life were as fabulous as it looks on Facebook!” I laughed...
September 30, 2016
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Kathy Caprino posted a blog post
Does Your Work Conflict With Your Authentic, Core Values? If So, You’ll Struggle
As a career coach, I’ve found it’s ever so clear when people are working out of alignment with their core values. It can be a miserable and even devastating experience. Interestingly, unhappy professionals often know something is terribly wrong, but can’t pinpoint exactly what is making them fe...
August 31, 2016
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Kathy Caprino posted a blog post
If You’re Not Being Understood, Say It Differently: 4 Key Ways To Improve Your Communications
This week, I had an experience with a customer service individual that reminded me of something very important that so many people forget (or actually never learned in the first place). In truth, I spent many years engaged in less-than-satisfying relationships and communications, not understand...
August 15, 2016
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Kathy Caprino posted a blog post
5 Critical Reasons You Struggle To Feel Loved, Appreciated and Respected In Life and Work
Today’s my birthday, and traditionally, I’ve loved this day – June 2nd. I have very happy memories going way back, of celebrating this day with dear friends and family. One of my fondest memories is of a wonderful party for my 18th birthday given by my dear friend Nan in her garage (because ...
July 11, 2016
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Kathy Caprino posted a blog post
Desperate For a Different Career? Change It, But Avoid These Top 5 Blunders
Part of the series “Living and Working Better” Before 9/11, I felt trapped in a 18-year corporate career that didn’t align with my values, preferences, talents and desires. But I had worked so hard to create success and recognition in it that I was, simply speaking, scared to death to let it go...
July 11, 2016
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Kathy Caprino posted a blog post
10 Ways To Brave Up: Gain More Power, Confidence and Authority in Your Life and Career Today
When I was immersed in my 18-year corporate life, I struggled inwardly to feel successful, valued and to make what I felt was a positive contribution in the world. Back then, I thought I was brave, but I wasn’t. Not by a long shot. I was afraid all the time, and I didn’t muster the courage to s...
July 11, 2016
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Kathy Caprino posted a blog post
Today, Let’s Love and Appreciate Not Only Our Moms, But Ourselves
Hello and Happy upcoming Mother’s Day (for those who celebrate it this weekend)! Mother’s Day for many is a time of honoring and appreciating our mothers and what they have done for and given to us. Offering a twist on this, I think it’s a fabulous time too to appreciate how we have mothered ...
May 9, 2016
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Kathy Caprino posted a blog post
Let’s Take the “I’m Pleasing Myself” 30-Day Challenge – Please Yourself, For Once
This weekend, I had a pretty harsh wake-up call (that cosmic 2×4 that hits you across the face that you never want) and it knocked me to my knees. (There was a lot of crying involved as well.) What I realized through the experience was this: I have spent WAY too much time the last year (who am...
April 12, 2016
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Kathy Caprino posted a blog post
4 Essential Steps To Figuring Out What You Should Be Doing With Your Career (And Your Life)
As a career success coach, writer, and researcher, I’ve had the opportunity to observe key trends among thousands of professionals around the world, particularly about how they get stuck and stay stuck in careers they dislike, and how they effectively change directions to a new path that’s re...
April 12, 2016
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Kathy Caprino posted a blog post
What Is Missing In Your Life Today That You Deeply Desire?
In my life, I spend most of my waking hours either thinking about how we can live happier lives and do more fulfilling work, or talking to people about it. Sometimes, we can get so caught up with the challenges and struggles in front of us, and how to navigate through them effectively, that w...
April 12, 2016
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Kathy Caprino posted a blog post
The Top 10 Things People Want In Life But Just Can’t Figure Out How To Get
This winter, I conducted a survey to my awesome community probing a number of critical life and career questions. 700 people have responded so far, and their answers have been fascinating to read. It’s not that I don’t ask these questions of my clients and my course members – I do. But what’s s...
April 12, 2016
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Kathy Caprino posted a blog post
Struggling to Earn or Charge What You Deserve? Here’s Why and What To Do
I speak with coaches, consultants, service providers, and small business owners (and corporate employees) every day who do great work, and offer high-quality products, services, and programs that are a cut above, but are failing to make any money. In studying this phenomenon, and living throu...
April 12, 2016
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Kathy Caprino posted a blog post
The Top 8 Excuses That Keep People From Taking Action They Desperately Need
I had a fascinating experience this weekend that helped me understand even more deeply why we don’t take action to help ourselves when we need it and why, under the right circumstances, we will. I’m a trained therapist, career coach, writer, speaker and trainer, and in my work with profession...
April 12, 2016
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Kathy Caprino posted a blog post
Are You Wrong (and Foolish) If You Don’t Follow The Advice of Renowned Experts In Your Field?
In the professional world I’m immersed in – coaching and online personal and professional development services – I’m literally bombarded every day with “experts” who share what they believe is the one “right” way to proceed in life and in business. Today, we can tap into wisdom and advice fro...
January 29, 2016
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Kathy Caprino posted a blog post
6 Key Behaviors That Heal, Repair Relationships, and Spread Love
This year, my colleague Mo Faul and I embarked on a new endeavor – producing a weekly podcast designed to help professional women build their best work and best lives. We began in September, and the journey to a successful podcast recording experience has been a wonderful and eye-opening one....
December 28, 2015
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Kathy Caprino posted a blog post
After 9/11 when my 18-year corporate marketing career ended in a crushing layoff, I took a huge turn professionally, and became a marriage and family therapist. I threw myself into the helping profession, and after earning my Master’s degree in therapy in 2005, I embarked on coach training as...
December 26, 2015
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Kathy Caprino posted a blog post
The Gift of Opening Yourself To Receiving
Happy Thanksgiving, my friends! This is one of my most favorite holidays, because as a nation we’re invited and encouraged to immerse ourselves in the experience of gratitude, and we’re reminded to be a bit more aware of the many blessings that surround us each day. (Of course, the scrumptio...
December 4, 2015
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Kathy Caprino posted a blog post
This month, I read a riveting post by Elizabeth Gilbert on The Best Thing You Can Do For Yourself — And All The Women Around You that had me nodding continuously, and sympathizing wholeheartedly with Elizabeth’s take on what’s going on for so many women today. Elizabeth sums it up perfect...
November 19, 2015
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Kathy Caprino posted a blog post
If You Don’t Believe Gender Bias Exists, Read This (and If You’ve Faced Gender Bias, This Will Help)
Part of Kathy’s series “Women, Leadership and Vision” originally posted here. A new study by New York Times bestselling authors, Joseph Grenny and David Maxfield revealed that gender bias in the workplace is real, finding that women’s perceived competency drops by 35% and their perceived wor...
October 7, 2015
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Kathy Caprino is now a member of Berrett-Koehler Community