Click below if you prefer to listen. Think about something you want. Anything! Stumped? Here are some ideas to get you started: Maybe you want to … Lose weight. Make more money. Find the love of my life. Travel to Paris. Get a puppy. More space on my calendar. It’s normal to want things. Not… Continue Reading
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Click below if you prefer to listen. A woman in our community recently confided in me at a French Kiss Life Tour event. She told me that she was new to the community but was intrigued by my work. However, she felt that she wasn’t elegant, nor did she have any desire to “become elegant”.… Continue Reading
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Click below if you prefer to listen. There’s a sculpture at Brookgreen Gardens in Pawleys Island, South Carolina of a man chiseling himself out of stone. It’s called Self-Made Man. You can see the beautiful form emerging through grace and grit from a solid piece of stone. I’d often grab a cup of coffee and… Continue Reading
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Click below if you prefer to listen. Another New Year is around the corner. And, you know what that means? Time for resolutions…or not! Let me give you some startling statistics. 42% of us make New Year’s resolutions. 9% actually keep them. Think about that: Out of almost half our humankind, only 9 out of… Continue Reading
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Click below if you prefer to listen. It’s so magical up here! Not too long ago Glenn asked me to move in with him in his “little cabin in the woods.” We are surrounded by the most gorgeous blue spruce trees that are hundreds of years old and peeking over them are 13,000 feet mountain… Continue Reading
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Click below if you prefer to listen. We think about it often. I should have totally given him my number. It would have been so much better if I had eaten before going to that party. I should have finished college and gotten that degree. If I had been more responsible saving money I could… Continue Reading
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Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday of the year, along with Christmas, New Year’s Eve, Valentine’s Day, Fourth of July, and let’s not forget my birthday. As you can see, I’m all for any reason to get all gussied up, connect with friends and family over delicious food and divine wine and celebrate life. But, there… Continue Reading
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Click below if you prefer to listen On my first trip to Paris, one would think that I would’ve been most captivated by the architecture, fashion or art. But, non! I couldn’t stop watching French women eat. I’d stare at them at the café or watch them through the window of a brasserie. Yes, I… Continue Reading
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On a recent visit back home down South, my niece told me in her sweetest Southern drawl, “Aunt Tonya, I saw a pic of you in the County Museum when you were the Strawberry Queen” Yes, I held the titles of: Little Miss Chadbourn (the little town I grew up in) And ……are you ready… Continue Reading
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“I believe that my clothes can give people a better image of themselves – that it can increase their feelings of confidence and happiness.” -Giorgio Armani “I feel so frumpy at work,” Leanne said to me during a coaching call. “I don’t take the time to dress up anymore,” she continued. I asked, “Why don’t you… Continue Reading
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