Women Business Owners: LOVIN’ Football!
Women-owned businesses and star football teams. . .Both groups work their butts off, find ways to win even when the score is against them, and never quit. I encourage women to WATCH football this season—college and NFL—to be inspired. Women business owners ROCK! Just got back from the Manchester Grand Hyatt, site of this year’s…
Read MoreMy Love/Hate Relationship With NFL Preseason Football
I have a love/hate relationship with preseason NFL Football. LOVE the fact they are playing FOOTBALL in a STADIUM. Love the spandex, the thighs IN the spandex, and all the running around of the beautiful, athletic bods. However, there’s the HATE side. It looks like the team we know and love at the beginning, but…
Read MoreThanks to supporters of “Necessary Roughness”
So I get this great comment on my Facebook Wall from Chrissy Carew, who sought me out because a friend told her about my book, “Necessary Roughness: New Rules for the Contact Sport of Life,” and Chrissy is a “football girl.” Besides being a master personal and business coach www.coachcarew.com , she founded another website,…
Read MoreWomen: Do You Play Fantasy Football? Why?
Over 18 million people engage in Fantasy Football in this country. Some of them are women. Can women be happy (fulfilled) playing Fantasy Football? This woman cannot. My brother-in-law sweetly invited me to join his “league”—he has 14 men and one woman so far, and I turned him down. He responded, “maybe down the road.”…
Read MoreNFL Hall Of Fame – The Lessons It Teaches In Business and Life
Huge, strong, accomplished football men baring their souls, sharing their hearts, crying with love and gratitude for their mothers and grandmothers! Everything a football girl could love. And love it I did. Yesterday I watched my TIVO’s NFL Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony, from pregame to post. It did not disappoint. I cried all the…
Read MoreA Female Motivational Speaker's Perspective: Women, You Will LOVE The NFL Hall of Fame!
As a female motivational speaker, and avid football lover, I am SO excited for the NFL Hall of Fame Induction Ceremonies. They will be televised, live, this Saturday, August 6 on ESPN and NFL Network. I suggest TIVOing it to watch later, so you can savor every emotional moment. That’s what I intend to do.…
Read MoreLeadership Lessons: Peyton Manning Inspires Again!
When it comes to leadership lessons, Peyton, Peyton—you’ve done it again—you’ve inspired me! I dedicated my book Necessary Roughness to you, because you inspired the first words, “The intention to get to a certain place makes you unstoppable.” That was in week 5 of the 2008 season, when you were unstoppable, and led your Colts…
Read MoreTough Coaches Rule!
Tough coaches are hiring and letting go—that’s what the NFL teams are doing with free agent players–in fast-forward mode. We, here in the real world, can’t do it as quickly with as much money at stake. But, there are parallels and lessons that are applicable and valuable. Here’s one of them. When I was getting…
Read MoreFootball and Business: Mission Accomplished, NFL is Back!
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