Carolina Perez Sanz
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#8–Codependency, shame, and the secrets we keep
Growing up in a codependent family, I learned three fundamental patterns: Unlearning these patterns and erasing…
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#7–The Ghost of Misplaced Shame, Isolation’s best buddy
Shame hates company and ghosts disappear in the daylight. That’s why the Ghost of Misplaced Shame…
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#6–The Ghost of Isolation
The lie that the Ghost of Isolation tells us is that we’re special and therefore, no…
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#5–Time indifference
We, compulsive underearners have a strange relationship with time. It’s almost like we don’t believe in…
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#4–The danger of ‘I know’
I know/I don’t know. I’ve spent my whole life pursuing knowledge. Saying––and thinking––, “I know” was…
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#3–The fear of change is real
Have you ever been so afraid of something that you wished you’d die instead? I have.…
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#2–Committing to change
My family didn’t do change well. They ate too much, exercised too little, complained endlessly about…
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#1. Misplaced shame
My dad came back from the bank one Saturday afternoon (it was 1977 in Madrid, so,…
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The Habit Of Being Unhappy
Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional, the saying goes. When I touch fire, I inevitably feel…
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ChiRunning: from control to focus
Are you a control freak? I believed I was no longer one. But a few Saturdays…
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My Restless Saboteur
You know these people who always need to be doing something? That was me. I saw…
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Mind lessons from slow running
When I learned about Zone 2 training I thought it was something only professional ultra-marathoners needed…
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The only advice you need: DON’T LISTEN TO ADVICE
I have a PhD, two masters, a bachelor’s, and a couple of certificates. I speak four…
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To thrive in uncertainty, stop planning – start building
Stuck at home, many of us can revert to planning mode. But that’ll make us anxious.…
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Stuck between choices? Seek resonance
Sometimes we make choices that deplete us and leave us feeling nothing but resignation and disgust.…
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Creating The Conditions
When my son was a little baby, I often spoke with my friend Berta about mothering,…
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Women, Power and High Heels
Years ago, my friend Pilar, a 6-foot-tall real estate agent specializing in luxury properties in Madrid,…
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Women Need Disruption
In the fall of 2016, while researching for my master’s thesis, I joined a business accelerator…
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Authenticity, How Much Is Too Much?
We all like to deal with people who are honest in their interactions with us; people…
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Stop Working “Twice As Hard”
Taraji P. Henson in the movie, Hidden Figures. Charlotte Whitton, the mayor of Ottawa between 1951…
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The Power Of Asking
The verb ‘to ask’ has two basic meanings: 1, to request an information by putting…
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Do You Bail Out?
Paula was offered a position as the associate director of a very specialized singing voice research…
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Inspiring Deep Trust By Being Your Central Self
People trust us in professional relationships when we show them that we possess three qualities: ability–we…
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Shattering Gender Stereotypes With Intelligence
It’s not about you, it’s about them Claude M. Steele, in his 2011 book Whistling Vivaldi,…
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Leadership Is The Relationship Itself
My friend Marcia, an experienced PR professional with a background in journalism and foreign affairs, started…
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Do You Quit Before The End?
One morning, as a novice runner, I noticed a habit: I tended to stop…
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Confirmation Bias, Stereotypes, And Your Leadership Brand
“The human understanding when it has once adopted an opinion (…) draws all things else to…
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3 Blunders To Your Leadership Brand
The same that telling even small lies makes you a liar, exhibiting non-leader traits makes you…
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The Meaning of Being In Charge
On a steamy afternoon last summer, a mid-sized PR agency in New York City hosted an…
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