Research shows that around age 11, girls can begin to experience deficits in what is called “self-efficacy.” In layperson’s terms, this is the feeling of “I can do that.” It doesn’t stop there. As the instructor of a nationally award winning women’s leadership course, I’m called into corporations where I hear about…well…grown up versions of “Mean Girls.” Is there a connection to that 11 year-old?
As I looked down and thought this was the way to stop the torture I was going through, a voice in my head asked “who will give the children their breakfast tomorrow if you jump?” I agreed and walked back to my car. Read More…
This was a turning point in my life; no longer was I going to allow anyone to taunt me, and NEVER will I allow anyone to think they could simply walk all over me. Read More…
Why in the world would anyone want to do business with me? I’m a fraud, who no one in their right mind would listen to. Or, at least, that is what I thought for many, many years as I bore the sins of my past and my skin color like the scarlet letter. It was only when a wonderful coach decided to take me through an exercise that my life… Read More »Top Three Global Winner (video): Kathy Wilson
Most people would look puzzled… They thought I was making a crazy decision…but was I? Always remember that no dream should be considered impossible. Read More…
Across from my Working Girl-ish type desk was a bullpen which was essentially a locker room for twenty-something guys aspiring to become masters of the universe. Because the pressure was so intense in this testosterone-filled room, they inevitably went for the hard sell in opening new accounts, saying things like “Throw down your pom-poms and get in the game.” Read More…
I had gone from nearly dying to becoming an international role model….The ‘real Caroline Miller’ has decided to finally stand up and tell the story of how I have remained in recovery for decades. Read More…
…my parents were driving me to yet another competition, singing event, national anthem appearance, local Texas Opry’s, Honky Tonks – you name it, we went to them all. Read More…
She allowed herself to cry, but she was determined to pull herself together. After all, she could not change the cards she’d been dealt…. Her will to live dominated her thoughts. Read More…
As I look back on life, I see both the joys and the misery I experienced as things that built me into the person I am today….I am a survivor. They did not win. Read More…