A Wonderful Life! Coaching Blog

My daughter, BreAzia, turned 10 this spring. This birthday was a major milestone, not just for her, for me as well. Having a daughter with a double-digit age, made me take stock of the time that’s passed. I realized that I had been a mother and a professional basketball player for a decade. I’ve had the good fortune to play in the WNBA in the Summer for 10 seasons and overseas in 5 different countries for 9. So I’ve played 19 professional seasons of basketball.

I remember back when I was still at Stanford my senior year, and I had just participated in the NCAA tournament and made history. Incidentally, it’s not the type of history you’d want to make.  We were hosting that round of the playoffs so it was a home game to start my last NCAA tournament. In the past three tournament appearances we made it to the Final Four. This year was our season to win it all. We were the #1 seed and Harvard was the #16. We lost to them. Did you hear me? We made history losing to Harvard. The first time in NCAA history that a #1 seed lost to a 16. But maybe I should back-up a second here, I should’ve prefaced my story with an important fact that made this piece of history possible.  READ MORE

Often times we find ourselves needing a little motivation/inspiration. There are several texts that provide the tools necessary for one to feel not only motivated, also empowered. Feeling powerful is a key ingredient in our personal joy as well as our ability to set goals and our motivation to achieve them. As a motivational speaker and life coach, I’m constantly being asked for a reading list of this nature. As a result, I felt it prudent to write my Top Ten Inspirational Books to Live By. As I write each individual book review I will add a link to it here. So far I’ve only written a few. These are in no particular order and as life changes, so too may this list be subject to change. (more…)