Best. Kudos. Ever.

Kathryn Crawford Saxer A Little Kindness

A favorite coaching client recently convinced her partner to work with me on career coaching. When he got home after meeting with me, he told her: “You’re not allowed to say ‘I told you so.’” I think about that off-hand comment a lot. I can hear such love and humor and care for each other in it. And it was a needed affirmation for me, one year into this journey of self employment. It was an affirmation that, yes, I …

The Window

Kathryn Crawford Saxer Career Management

A favorite coaching client describes her job as a suckfest. “It’s not so bad,” she says in the same breath, “as long as I have two glasses of red wine every night.” Her job is isolating. Enervating. The place where ideas go to die. It’s killing her soul, she says with a laugh, as if that’s not true. I’ve been working with her on finding a new job. I have a theory about career success. A lot of it has …