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May 15, 2019

Episode 084: Jibe-Ho! Maybe?

  • What’s coming into view about my target client
  • My sailboat metaphor for the life experience I’ve been having
  • The lesson from my Eeyore day
  • Walking the balance beam of feedback
  • The trip that I said yes to and the feeling that came with it
  • The FB post that brightened my day
  • What’s tricky about coaching this next level of client
  • Big news about one of my teammates

Quotables

“I think I knew it all the way back then, but it took me all year.”

“All this year there’s been a lot of limbo.”

“Earlier this week I was more crying and more sad and uncertain if it would work.”

“I just got kind of lost in their perspective of how the world works.”

“Basically in the midst of everything there’s been some money worries.”

“This is a client I was so blessed to touch his life.”

“Oh yeah. You can make sales like these.”

“It’s wonderful to have closed a sale on Friday night.”

About Your Host

Alison Cardy is motivated by three main drivers: to be helpful to others, to personally grow and to have fun along the way. She’s a quiet rebel who pushes limits. She dreams big and executes regularly. And she has the dual capacities of creativity and systematic thinking.


On To a Billion with Joy Alison shares the ups and downs of her entrepreneurial endeavors, including how she built, grew and even tried to break one business that ran like a machine. Spoiler: it didn’t break.


Alison is a frequent speaker at universities and alumni groups, including Harvard, MIT, Georgetown and her alma mater, The University of Maryland. She is the author of the bestseller, Career Grease: How to Get Unstuck and Pivot Your Career. Her work has been featured on Forbes, Fast Company, Business Insider, and The Washington Post.


Her other business ventures can be found at cardycareercoaching.com and bethebeacon.com.