How to Stop Reacting and Start Creating: A One-Letter Shift That Changes Everything
I believe that we are all inherently creative. I believe that we are all inherently creative. While some of us
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Lisa is an ICF Certified Professional Life Coach and Energy Leadership Master Practitioner at Wide Open Stages. She specializes in partnering with highly successful creative people who want to be challenged and inspired to become artists in all areas of their lives. A passionate creative professional herself, Lisa has over 25 years experience working in the performing arts industry as a director/choreographer, producer, writer and dance educator in NYC, nationally and internationally. She is dance faculty at Pace University NYC in the Commercial Dance and Musical Theater BFA programs, and is co-founder of New York Stage Originals, an internationally recognized theatrical production company. Lisa hosts the popular podcast STOPTIME: Live in the Moment and is founder of Wide Open Stages, where she coaches high-performing creatives in the performing arts industry.
No More Toxic Gratitude: A Kinder Way to Be With Yourself
I just wanted to check in with you and talk to you a little bit about gratitude. Gratitude can be
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Tolstoy’s The Three Questions: A Timeless Parable About Slowing Down
I want to share one of my favorite classic stories. It’s a parable written by Leo Tolstoy, and it’s a
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Stop Blaming Yourself And Start Releasing What No Longer Fits
What are you tolerating? What are you putting up with right now that never used to bother you at all?
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The Bridge Between Fear and Flow: Find Your Groove Again
Groove has always been the password on my iPad. I’d enter it every day before class began to access my
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How the Assumptions You’re Making Are Shaping Your Life
Today I want to just kind of help you draw some awareness around something that might be holding you back.
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Kafka’s Traveling Doll: A Story About Letting Go
A little while ago I came across this short story, which has been attributed to Franz Kafka, and it really
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Breaking Free from Success Traps
I want to share a true story with you about one of my clients. I’ve changed the name for privacy.
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Breaking Free from Success Traps: Reclaim Your Power and Redefine Success
I want to share a true story with you about one of my clients. I’ve changed the name for privacy.
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Finding Freedom in Limitlessness: The Buddhist Parable of Fudo
I thought I’d share with you this parable from the Buddhist canon. It’s called the Hawk in the Sky, a
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Putting the Pieces Together: Life Lessons From A Jigsaw Puzzle
Let’s start with a few questions. What are you doing right now that feels too easy, or maybe too hard
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Ready to Stop Coasting and Challenge Your Comfort Zone?
If personal growth and challenge are not your thing, then you might want to hit pause or stop. But if
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The Artist at My Door: What I Learned from a Spider’s Web
You know it’s funny. I’ve been thinking a lot about intentions and gratitude. Obviously they come up a lot in
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Where You Come From Matters — And It Isn’t a Place
I was on the train a few weeks ago, returning from a lovely visit with my dad in Ottawa, and
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Never Assume That It Goes Without Saying: Love Out Loud
I’ve been thinking a lot about the expression. It goes without saying it’s a funny one, it goes without saying.
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Khalil Gibran: “Yesterday Is but Today’s Memory…”
Every now and then I look to Khalil Gibran’s timeless masterpiece, the Prophet, which was published back in 1923. And
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Embracing Imperfection: Messy Can Be Beautiful
Today’s episode is a little different. I’m sharing a chapter in progress from my upcoming book. I Get To the
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A Journey to Inner Clarity: A Buddhist Parable on Patience and Peace
There’s so much we can learn sometimes from a story, and I found this one from a collection of Buddhist
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The Antidote to Mental Clutter: Internal Noise To Calm
I’m going to say some words, and if you’re somewhere where you can close your eyes, go ahead and close
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Celebrating Ourselves Beyond External Validation
I’m heading into a milestone birthday in a couple of days and I thought that it might be interesting to
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Is Your Life Force Energy Illuminating or Overwhelming?
My therapist recently told me that I have a tremendous life force energy and that it may be difficult for
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