Tuesday Tea with AKM Coaching: Blog Edit
Sip of the Week: Amy's perspective on decision-making shifted everything for me: "Nothing you do or decide is a life sentence." She moved across the country, changed careers, and invested her life savings in a business idea - all because she recognized an underserved market and trusted her instincts...
Sip of the Week: Today we deep into the complex world of adult ADHD diagnosis, particularly for women who may have slipped through the cracks of childhood screening. Meg's story illustrates how ADHD can manifest differently across life stages and why traditional diagnostic criteria may not capture t...
Sip of the Week: This episode explores the courage it takes to completely reinvent yourself, especially when it means leaving behind what's familiar and safe. Meghan's journey from Australian educator to American entrepreneur illustrates how one moment of financial frustration can spark an entirely ...
Sip of the Week: This episode tackles the often misunderstood experience of postpartum anxiety, distinguishing it from the more commonly discussed postpartum depression. Brittany's story illustrates how postpartum mental health struggles don't discriminate - even when you're someone everyone assumes...
Sip of the Week: Lindsey's insight hit me hard: we're so conditioned to go from zero to ten with our goals that we set ourselves up for failure before we even start. Her simple question - "What does a two look like?" - completely reframes how we approach change. Instead of committing to workout seve...
Sip of the Week: Nicole's story challenged something I didn't realize I believed: that we need to be desperate or miserable to justify making big life changes. She loved her OR job, was great at it, worked with wonderful people - but it wasn't filling her cup anymore. Her courage to leave something ...
Sip of the Week: This episode tackles the complex challenge of maintaining your authentic self within relationships, especially with family members who've known you the longest. Erin explores why parent-child relationships are often the most difficult for boundary-setting, examining the power dynami...
Sip of the Week: Aquabah dropped a truth bomb that shifted my entire perspective: "I might not be able to show up for everybody. And that's something that I had to learn how to be okay with because it freed me from feeling like I don't have enough time for me." As women, especially women of color, w...
Sip of the Week: One of my favorite pieces of advice came up in this conversation: only you can plan your perfect birthday, and it doesn't make it less meaningful when you do. This applies to so much more than birthdays - it's about taking ownership of what you want instead of expecting others to re...
Sip of the Week: Jillian's opening wisdom stopped me in my tracks: "I think first we have to just get real, because I don't think that we're real with ourselves a lot of the time." She called out the lie we tell ourselves - that we don't care what others think - when the truth is we deeply, desperat...
Sip of the Week: In this dynamic conversation, Stephanie shares her journey from growing up in extreme poverty to now working on AI technology with the Department of Defense while running multiple successful businesses. Her insight about there being "a grief process in outgrowing old beliefs" resona...
Sip of the Week: In this powerful conversation, Jenny, Melissa and I tackle the exhausting cycle that so many of us know too well – automatically jumping in to fix everyone else's discomfort, even when no one asked for our help. Jenny's honesty about being a natural people-pleaser who struggles to s...