Karen southall watts- @askkaren coaching 

I'm incredibly lucky because my personal and professional networks are really diverse. I'm connected to people from a variety of backgrou...

If you are reading this on a computer or phone in a developed country, chances are you are going to live to be about 80 years old--give o...

I do realize not everyone likes to curl up with a cup of tea and a book. (Realize it yes, understand it, well not so much.) As we contemp...

If you read my last post, you know that I think many of us are going to be faced with reinvention in the next weeks and months. And, many...

Oh, no. Not again. The news is full of stories about how Covid-19 is destroying the economy, and I’ll admit sometimes I can’t look away. ...

Like many people, my stay-at-home days have been filled with Zoom meetings, weird cooking experiments, and online entertainment and educa...

So, you want to date, live with, or marry an entrepreneur? Or perhaps you're a freelancer or small business owner hoping your romantic pa...

How do you start a blog about feelings and mental health? I wrestled with this, as right now my own brain is stuffed with information fro...

Recently I was on a Zoom call and the facilitator began by asking, “Who’s wearing shoes?” I have it on good authority that some calls beg...

The coronavirus pandemic has been brutally painful. Many families have suffered loss, and are grieving. Others are working on the front l...

Usually when someone comes to me with a time management problem it is of the too-many-tasks-not-enough-hours variety. For years I’ve caut...

When I was a teenager, my mother would sometimes call me, “my little Type A baby.” She said it with a smile, but I could tell that my blo...

There’s a scene in the Meg Ryan/Tom Hanks rom-com You’ve Got Mail, where the character Joe Fox is trapped in an elevator. This tiny brush...

Remember a few days ago when Madonna, soaking in a milk and rose petal bath, told us that the Covid 19 pandemic was an equalizer? Uh…no, ...

I was never a hand shaker. In fact, I used to tell stories in classes and workshops with tips and tricks I used to not shake hands or to ...

The last face-to-face work I did before the Covid 19 lock down was teaching a course in customer service communication. Despite having an...

Covid 19 is taking adult education for a wild ride, sending many instructors to a place they never anticipated going...the online classro...

Covid 19 has changed the whole world, including the way we do education. Imagine this...your college has just pushed all your classes onl...

For those of use who've taken the solo road to entrepreneurship -- freelancers, gig workers, consultants etc. -- working from home or alo...

You did what all the experts and gurus told you to do – you made a personal success plan. Or maybe you called yours a 5-year plan, or you...