Amanda L. Christian | Women's Executive Coaching

Unhappy with Life? Why Next Year Won't Be Different Either

You know that moment in Groundhog Day when Bill Murray realizes he's living the same day over and over again? That he's trapped in a loop he can't escape? That's what December feels like when you've been telling yourself "next year will be different" for the fifth year in a row. Or the tenth. E...

How to Stop Feeling Empty When You Have Everything

Last week, I told you about the December I finally stopped pretending everything was fine. The December I admitted "I can't do another year like this." The December I stopped letting fear make my decisions. That was December 2020. I knew. I was done with my 31+ year career in finance and tech. ...

Leadership Lessons: Harvest Your Year's Growth & Release

While everyone's making New Year's resolutions about "better leadership," I want to share something I've learned in my own leadership journey and also observed in my practice that might reframe how you think about this year's challenges. The leadership lessons most development programs focus on?...

Anxiety and the Holidays

How to Architect Rest Instead Here's what no one tells you about anxiety and the holidays: They suck. And if you're a high-achieving woman juggling a demanding career, they suck exponentially harder. While everyone else gets misty-eyed about "the most wonderful time of the year," you're secretl...

Are Women Better Leaders? (The Research Says Yes and Here's Why)

Are women better leaders? For most of my career, I would have laughed at that question. I always felt that my brain didn't work "right" or "normal." Maybe it was because I couldn't really hear for the first 5½ years of my life due to chronic ear and sinus infections. I'm not neurodivergent, but ...

The Energy Code: How High-Achieving Women Create Sustainable Success

Sustainable success shouldn't feel like an oxymoron, but for most high-achieving women, it totally does. So here's the thing. I was raised with one absolutely insane rule: You only rest when the work is done. And can I just say? In corporate America, work is NEVER done. Like, never. There's alw...

How Women Lead: 4 Natural Patterns from Exhausted to Influential

I'd always been able to see patterns others missed, but I didn't have words for it. And when I'd bring up what I was seeing—inefficiencies, better ways to do things, connections others overlooked—I was consistently poo-poo'd. "You don't know what you're talking about." So I learned to stay quiet...

Resilience as a Strength

Why Most Women Leaders Get It Wrong (And What Actually Works) Nobody talks about how resilience as a strength looks suspiciously like having mascara streaks in your car after a meeting that went sideways. The most courageous leaders I know don't fake a quick bounce—they grieve the setback, grab...

The Arrival Fallacy: Why Your Biggest Success Feels Like Your Emptiest Moment

You've arrived. The promotion finally came through, your salary hit that number you've been working toward, the respect you've earned is undeniable. So why does success taste like cardboard? Let me guess—you're sitting there wondering if something's fundamentally wrong with you. You've che...

The Back-to-School Relief No Working Mom Admits (And Why That's Actually Healthy)

Why successful women secretly celebrate back to school—and what that says about your sanity, not your mothering It's the beginning of August, and while your social media feeds fill with "I'm not ready for summer to end!" posts, you're quietly doing mental cartwheels at the thought of Septemb...

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