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Achieving Goals with Expert Coaching Guidance
Setting and achieving goals can often feel overwhelming. Many people struggle to stay motivated or find the right path to success. This...

Renée Walker
Aug 43 min read


Developing Emotional Skills for Success
In a fast-paced world, the ability to manage emotions is crucial for personal and professional success. Emotional skills empower...

Renée Walker
Jul 214 min read


Navigating the Five Stages of Empty Nesting: A Parent’s Journey
Parenthood is a rollercoaster, filled with highs and lows. It all culminates in one defining moment: waving goodbye as your child heads...

Renée Walker
Jan 144 min read


Coping with Winter Slump and Pre-Exam Stress
As winter descends upon New Zealand, you might find yourself grappling with the dual challenges of the seasonal slump and pre-exam...

Coach Prajesh
May 25, 20244 min read


Nurturing Independence: The Importance of Allowing Children to Grow
As a parent we pass the milestones and see that our time with our children is changing, if we feel any personal struggles with our changing

Renée Walker
Apr 20, 20243 min read


Conquering the Mid-Semester Slump
We've all been there: semester starts with a flurry of enthusiasm, lectures are captivating, and that A+ seems within reach. Then,...

Coach Prajesh
Mar 23, 20243 min read


From "Hero" to "Zero"
So, picture this: you've been the big cheese at school, the head honcho, the go-to person everyone looks up to - the head boy or head...

Coach Prajesh
Feb 23, 20245 min read


Embracing Your Uniqueness: Breaking Free from the Black Sheep Label.
Are You the Black Sheep, or Is It a Self-Fulfilling Prophecy? Being labeled the "black sheep" of the family can be a heavy burden to...

Renée Walker
Feb 3, 20242 min read


Embracing Independence: A celebration of raised children.
As parents, we embark on a remarkable journey filled with joy, challenges, and countless milestones. One of the most significant...

Renée Walker
Jan 21, 20242 min read


A Thrive Guide to Acing Exams: Study Smarter, Not Harder
Kia ora, all you legendary students of Aotearoa! Whether you're as calm as a kiwi or feeling as nervous as a possum caught in headlights...

Coach Prajesh
Nov 4, 20239 min read


Coaching versus Telling
We live in a society that is embracing a much more empowering modality of influence. The challenge is that while we are encouraged to...

Renée Walker
Sep 14, 20232 min read


The Johari Window: A Tool Leaders Can Use to Unlock Hidden Potential
Over the weekend I had the great opportunity through my role as a coach with Thrive For Life to speak to a group of young leaders. One of...
phambilicoaching
Sep 11, 20236 min read


Reframing the Career Question
Over the last fourteen years in my current role I have been working in the transition space. Working with students that are leaving high...

Coach Prajesh
May 3, 20233 min read


Comparisonitis, and what to do about it
Comparisonitis is what I call the condition of getting into one of those spirals where you feel like you’ll never match up to the people...

Coach Lucy Smith
Mar 6, 20235 min read


The myth of the dream job
You see an ad for a job – and it’s perfect. It’s exactly what you want to be doing. You imagine yourself being there and all the great...

Coach Lucy Smith
Feb 2, 20232 min read


What is a CV, really?
When you’re looking for a job, your CV is the very first thing you need to have sorted before you even think about applying for anything....

Coach Lucy Smith
Jan 22, 20233 min read


8 Tips for University Success this year
For those of you who are sending teens off on their first year of tertiary study here are some tips from a mother who has been there and...

Marina Shearer
Jan 16, 20234 min read


What to do when your Teen misbehaves
Do you have a tween or teen who is acting in ways that you really don’t understand, that worry you or that you know are not in their best...

Coach Anne Cullen
Jan 13, 20233 min read


7 Tips for Self Care
If we as mothers don’t look after ourselves, there is just no way we can parent the way we truly want to parent. My aspiration for you is...

Coach Anne Cullen
Jan 12, 20237 min read


How to respond to challenging behaviours
In my work with parents over the years, they frequently ask me how they are meant to respond to their children’s challenging behaviours....

Coach Anne Cullen
Jan 10, 20237 min read
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