Tania Gerard

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Social entrepreneurship: meaningful, purpose-driven work that strengthens your connection with the world around you

We exist in connection with the world around us, both the environment and the people. There seems to be an irreconcilable dichotomy between giving until exhaustion or gaining for self-interest in the traditional business model.Social entrepreneurship rises as an alternative: the happy marriage of purpose-driven work that creates well-being for the world while providing social […]

Agency, the courageous act of owning your life

Are you curious about how you can help your teenager to make responsible choices? Do you want an empowered team that helps your business to grow and thrive? Are you tired to clean other people’s “messes”?All these questions have the same answer: Agency. We can describe agency as the conviction that we are capable of […]

Your body can help you to be courageous

Imagine this – You’re facing a tough situation at work which involves speaking up to your boss. You worry and stress about it all day and continue thinking about it as you get home where you find the kids screaming for dinner. Cue the overwhelm and thoughts of, “I can’t do this!” It’s a scenario […]

Four ways to silence other people’s judgments in your head

As we grow up within a group, the ideas, beliefs, and values that we learn become the criteria for our decision making. This structure provides us with certainty: we know what our community expects from us and we are rewarded with acceptance when we agree to it. Everything goes well so far. Until the morning you […]

Guilt, needs, and judgment from your loved ones

As social entities, we exist as part of a group. This group welcomes us into the world and teaches us how to behave, what to believe, what to feel, and how to communicate. These behaviors, feelings, ideas, and language have one thing in common: they protect and sustain the well-being of the group. We build our […]

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