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Tactics and resources for people creating their ideal jobs through entrepreneurship.
Gifts versus Strengths
Chantal explains the difference between Gifts and Strengths, and how that relates to finding your ideal job.
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How to Ask for Help
Chantal shares a template that entrepreneurs and job seekers may use to ask for help.
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Just Like Riding a Bike
Chantal uses the metaphor of riding a bike to talk about finding your ideal job.
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Embracing Equity
Chantal shares an example of embracing equity and random acts of kindness during IWD 2023.
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Practicing Self Care
Chantal chats about self-care she practices as an entrepreneur. You may find useful tips for your journey.
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Business Resource: PARO
Chantal shares information about the PARO Centre for Women's Enterprise, a free resource available to women and non-binary people across Ontario.
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December Reflections and Gratitude
This blog posts covers a few reflections about learning and gratitude for the year 2022.
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Empowered Path Inc. Services
Sharing my thoughts about the services I offer helps me refine the content for my new webpage, and helps me clarify what stories I can share to help my ideal clients find and connect with me.
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Free Business Mentoring
To me mentoring is when people act as trusted thought partners, helping each other out and celebrating each others' success.
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Navigating your Career Route Map
In 2021, as I prepared to launch my first online courses, “Networking: Identifying and Connecting with Friendly Forces” and “Navigating your Career Route Map: Designing Courses of Action to Help You Achieve Your Definition of Success” I decided to invest in help from professionals whose strengths complement mine.
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A Rave of Squirrels and Being a Solo-preneur
Today’s blog was inspired by a LinkedIn post from Hannah Gzik, showcasing one of the Build a Kick Ass Company’s free downloadable posters. The poster is in the image I’ve used to illustrate this blog.
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Time flies when you’re having fun!
Earlier this week it occurred to me that I hadn’t published a blog lately. I wondered if I was suffering from writer’s block, or if it was something else. Then I set aside the thought, because I had a full week.
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Home Based Business: Let's talk Money part 2
Last week’s blog covered two money related topics: Incorporation and Business Insurance. There were also links to several free resources that you can explore at your own pace.
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Home Based Business: Let's talk Money part 1
Running a business out of your home can be appealing for a number of reasons. As more people start contemplating the benefits of creating their own career by becoming entrepreneurs, it’s likely that they’ll have a few questions.
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Ask for what you want, you might just get it!
Do you feel frustrated with your career, like things aren’t going the way you expected or hoped?
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Women Veterans, Helping Each Other Thrive
Seeking out new learning opportunities is a life long habit. On Sunday June 6, I officially joined the A.T.H.E.N.A., a program run by the Audrée Dufresne and David Morrow from HRD2KILL. This program was specifically created for Canadian women veterans.
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Rebranding, a New Adventure!
Just as I believe that everyone has gifts to share with the world, things that they excel at doing, and can do better than most people, I know that there are things that I’m not good at doing. I’ve learned that the best way to compensate for that, is to partner with people who have the skill sets I lack.
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Time Spent in Recce is Seldom Wasted
“Recce” is a military term, short for reconnaissance, and basically means exploring the paths you might take without committing too much energy or investing a lot of money and other resources to help you make an educated guess on how you may choose to achieve your goals.
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Be True to Yourself
Honesty is something we owe ourselves and the others in our lives. Honesty requires reflection, and facing uncomfortable truths. To me living honestly means that the person I show the world is the person I am. It’s about being genuine and authentic, being true to myself.
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Growing your network online
Many people imagine that the only way to grow your network is to go to events and exchange business cards. While this might have been true in the past, technology now offers dozens of ways to meet and connect with people from literally around the world.
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Fitting the Pieces Together
This blog talks about how creating a career or business can be a bit like fitting the pieces of a puzzle together.
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Indigenous Women are Successful Entrepreneurs
Today, I had the honour of being one of five panelists in an International Women’s Week event co-hosted by the University of Ottawa Institute for Science, Society and Politics and the Idea Connector Network.
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Learning opportunities are all around us!
The last week in January 2021, about 1700 people attended the Human Resources Professional Association (HRPA) Annual Conference. I’m honoured to share that I was one of the 73 speakers featured during the conference.
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A New Goal for this Blog
Setting goals is a good thing, even though we sometimes don’t meet our goals. In March 2020, I set a goal of publishing a blog every week.
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Choose Joy, until you choose to move on
We’re living through a time full of choices, ranging from radical to small. You may be familiar with the motivational phrases “Attitudes are contagious! Is yours worth catching?”
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What exactly is a Thought Partner?
First a confession. For 8 years people have been trying to get me to join Instagram. I’ve resisted, because I think in words, and not in pictures. Everyone from consultants teaching social media sessions to business coaches, mentors and friends, have urged me to “try it.” I kept thinking that Instagram was all about images, and, it is largely comprised of photos and videos.
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Ask for what you want, you just might get it!
Did you know that people can’t read your mind? That your boss can’t reliably guess that you want a lateral transfer? That your clients won’t guess you’d like more money? That your dream career might be a question away?
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Micro-blogging, does it work?
Early this week I watched a #BPWGoesDigital webinar called “The BLOG for BPW Communication” presented by Opeyemi Adeneye (BPW Nigeria). This 30-minutes video includes a short history of blogging and fabulous advice about how to use blogging to engage audiences and build communities. The lessons that Opeyemi shared with members of the International Federation of Business and Professional Women (BPW International) are transferable.
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To speak, or not to speak: professionally
I’ve enjoyed speaking in front of groups for as long as I can remember. As a child in grade school, I used to tell my playmates the story of what we were playing that day, and then assign everyone a role. I even occasionally assigned speaking parts (forgive me, little sister).
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It’s OK to ask for help. So, I am asking…
One of the hardest lessons to learn is that it’s OK to ask for help. I know my strengths and I know the areas where I can use help. I’m also human, so I sometimes need to be reminded that it’s OK to ask for help.
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Gratitude: Noticing and Appreciating the Little Things in Life
Are you finding dealing with our “new normal” difficult? Do you have a hard time being motivated to “be productive?” Are you frustrated because others seem to be having an easier time than you?
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Take my FREE networking course
You’re more likely to find your next job from someone you know than by applying to online job platforms. But many job-seekers feel uncomfortable networking. This course teaches the networking skills you need to find your next ideal job.
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