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Hi, I'm Annette. Welcome to the home of life-changing resources, workshops and coaching dedicated to your wildest dreams.

I have a method proven to disarm and silence the voices that do not belong to you and do not serve you.

And I have a mission to help you find your real voice—so that you finally speak the words that serve you. The words that move your world and the world around you.

When you decide to add more LIFE to life, I'm here to help you be daringly, unflinchingly, trusting of yourself... to expand the possibilities that move you to act, speak and make something good happen.

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SUCCESS STORIES

6 Months In—She Got a Promotion

How my client was the only one to get a 25% raise on Wall Street after being turned down six times.

Rachel used “3 Easy Steps to Get What You Want With Confidence and Grace” to get through a tough job interview process, and she had just been hired as a senior manager at a major investment bank. It was a big win. Unfortunately, two months later that “win” had lost some of its luster, especially when she realized she was outperforming a male colleague at the VP level. She was outshining him in every area— except for her title and her paycheck.

"Working with Annette Was Nothing Short of Life Changing."

Rachel faced her hardest critique—herself—and got real with where she was. So after she stopped kicking herself for not negotiating more successfully during the interview process, she became very passionate about the fact that she was missing out on earnings. She went back to 3 Easy Steps and gained the necessary skills and backbone to persist through six tough conversations in which she was told “no” flat out.

When she stopped and thought about the perspective of her audience, the “yes” she wanted wasn’t far behind. Here’s what happened. In doing her homework Rachel realized her boss was a little lazy, and that was a valuable insight. So rather than depend on him carry her arguments for a raise to the ultimate decision-maker, she decided to make it very easy for her boss to fulfill her request by putting her compelling arguments in a sales deck—all he had to do was pass it along to the department head.

And while nobody else at her company got a raise this year, Rachel managed to secure a 25% bump, and she is prepping to get VP next year.

How this "People Pleaser" Learned to Take Her Life Back at Work:

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I was up visiting clients in New York City last winter when Natalie and I were beaming at the company’s holiday party.

Beaming because the owners of the small but successful design studio informed us that she and I would work together in the year ahead to fuel her leadership skills. They knew she was essential to the firm’s progress moving forward. Natalie’s responsibilities include managing the company’s staff; working with software developers and designers to get projects out; managing client relationships; and pitching and pricing new business. She was amazing juggling her many roles, but she was losing time and peace of mind working with one particularly difficult–but important–client.

As the story unfolded, I learned that this single client was sucking up a lot of her time, and she felt like she was on call 24/7. He texted her at all times of day and night, creating a sense of urgency and panic for items that were, in fact, not urgent at all. Rather than asking if she could do something he clicked into her calendar and scheduled her time. As a result of his actions, Natalie was constantly changing plans within the firm and with the firm’s other clients.

More pressure and strain was added to the situation because, although the difficult client was an existing client, Natalie’s studio was in competition for another piece work with his firm. She told me that she felt she had to respond to his every perceived “need.” In the end Natalie was physically and emotionally exhausted. It simply wasn’t a sustainable way to live or to do business.

There was no question about Natalie’s work ethic, her loyalty to her company, or about her ability to perform her job (again, the owners—two great men–brought me in as an investment in her future and the future growth of the studio).

The problem was that Natalie, like many women (and a few men), was a ‘people pleaser’, and people in a position of authority were particularly hard for her to ignore. The more she jumped through hoops, the more the situation seemed to spiral out of control. Here are the mindset shifts Natalie mastered to turn her situation around:

How my client stopped jumping through hoops for a difficult client and was still voted MVP at work.

1. Set healthy boundaries:

We began with a very important meeting, the one in which her studio would pitch the new business. Instead of waiting for the client to put the time on her calendar, I worked with Natalie to be proactive. She reached out to him with the exact times that worked for her team and the times that did not. Setting boundaries is critical because it shows you respect yourself and expect others to respect you, too.

2. Practice restraint

I also worked with Natalie to stop responding immediately every time the client texted her, which almost instantaneously reduced the sense of urgency and panic. The client responded by backing off, and recently responded to an email with more than two words, making an actual show of enthusiasm.

3. Take a leap of faith

When Natalie first began setting healthy boundaries and practicing restraint, she was worried. What if it blew up in her face? What allowed her to follow through with my suggestions was that she mustered up her courage to try them. It wasn’t blind faith by a long shot but it was an educated ‘leap of faith’ based of my ongoing relationship with the studio’s founders.