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Does anyone really want a more peaceful, joyful, purpose-filled life (maybe it’s just me?)?

December 10, 2019 By kfesta

Kara Diane explores joy

AKA the joys and sorrows of the entrepreneurial journey, and other musings. When I started out on this journey to start a new business a few months ago, I really thought I had something figured out. I had transformed my own life, with LOTS of help from others, going from depression, worry, and longing, to […]

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Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: challenge, change, coaching, depression, feminine, help, love, tranformation

How Belly Dancing Ended my Engineering Career

June 12, 2019 By kfesta

Once upon a time, I was a smart, hard-working engineer and business owner. I had invested the requisite blood, sweat, and many, many tears in building a career, and a life, that by all objective measures was the very definition of success. I exceeded every expectation of the people around me. I became known as […]

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Filed Under: Coaching Tagged With: balance, business, challenge, change, coaching, depression, executive, feminine, integral, power, tranformation

An Open Letter to Whole Foods CEO John Mackey about Structural Inequality – A Challenge, Sent with Love

April 27, 2019 By kfesta

Dear Mr. Mackey: I wanted to let you know, first of all, how much I enjoyed your keynote address at the Conscious Capitalism conference this week. “Bringing love out of the corporate closet” is a concept near and dear to my own heart, and I thoroughly enjoyed the call to action. I agree with you, […]

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Filed Under: DE&I Tagged With: business, coaching, conscious capitalism, diversity, equity, inclusion, integral, love

“If Life is So Good, Why Do I Feel So Bad?”

April 14, 2019 By kfesta

Unfulfilled: As I do this work, I have started to see the same thoughts come up for so many women, friends and colleagues, and even those I don’t know well who have shared their deep sadness. Women who have gotten to a point in life where by all objective measures the world tells them they […]

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Filed Under: Coaching Tagged With: business, change, coaching, depression, engineer, executive, integral

The Magic of a Simple Question

November 11, 2018 By kfesta

Conversations: I had a couple of conversations in the last month or so that were unusual for me and had some interesting commonalities. Both of these conversations were with women I had just met, just been purposefully introduced to, and neither of them were probably people I would have run into otherwise, without a daisy […]

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Filed Under: Coaching Tagged With: business, challenge, change, coaching, consulting, help, integral, tranformation

Finding the Balance Between the Masculine and the Feminine at Work

October 13, 2018 By kfesta

Workplace Culture: I have been thinking a lot lately about how a workplace would function if the values focused on a partnership system (“power with”), and less of a domination system (“power over”), thanks to the amazing book The Real Wealth of Nations, by Riane Eisler. And there are definitely some traditional “feminine” and “masculine” […]

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Filed Under: Coaching Tagged With: balance, business, challenge, change, coaching, feminine, integral, power, tranformation

Who’s Tired of Being Tired?

October 13, 2018 By kfesta

More Doing! It’s part of our culture to always be “doing”. Doing more, doing better, doing faster, as long as there’s lots of doing. If we’re not too busy, we should be ashamed of ourselves, right? It’s it just lazy and self-indulgent, to take time to relax and take care of ourselves, right? Whose message […]

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Filed Under: Coaching Tagged With: business, challenge, change, coaching, feminine, help, integral, love, power, tranformation

How to Make Peace with Your “Shoulds”

October 13, 2018 By kfesta

The “Shoulds”: We often don’t have any doubt that we should be better parents/spouses/partners, should strive for a different body, should hold back to keep people from being uncomfortable, should work harder, should exercise more, should keep our mouths shut when we don’t agree, should give up carbs, should respect authority, should believe it when […]

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Filed Under: Coaching Tagged With: balance, business, challenge, change, coaching, executive, feminine, integral, love, power, tranformation

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I’m Kara, a coach for women in business and STEM careers. I’m also a consultant, engineer, wife, and mom of two in Tucson, Arizona. On this blog, you’ll find tools and articles to help you unfold your wild and spacious life.

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Kara Diane explores joy

Does anyone really want a more peaceful, joyful, purpose-filled life (maybe it’s just me?)?

How Belly Dancing Ended my Engineering Career

An Open Letter to Whole Foods CEO John Mackey about Structural Inequality – A Challenge, Sent with Love

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