Isn’t She Amazing Blog
There is today
by Marianne Clyde “Hold everything in your hands lightly, otherwise it hurts when God pries your fingers open,” Corrie Ten Boom famously asserted. After hiding Jews from the Nazis in her home in the Netherlands, Corrie and her family were arrested and sent to a series...
The Wooden Box
By Lorna Magill Have you ever read a book and encountered a major thought-provoking question? I recently completed "The Measure" by Nikki Erlick, and it really raises an intriguing question worth pondering. Imagine having access to a transformative piece of...
Being Smart has nothing to do with it.
by Marianne Clyde We were sitting at a gorgeous resort chatting about how productive she is being. It's amazing really. She trains women and coaches women in her field how to run their various projects a a business. She has several businesses going at the same time....
The Power of Purpose
By Marianne Clyde "Knowing your purpose strengthens your sense of self; it gives you a way to explain who you are both to other people and to yourself," according to Meg Selig, author of Changepower. There are so many ways that having a purposeful life, or living a...
My Disruption Mentor
by Marianne Clyde I've been so privileged to disrupt the status quo in so many ways and it's just because I started saying to myself, "Hey, I can do that!" And doing what you used to think you couldn't sends a feeling of complete freedom through your body! The...
Elevating conversations
Passenger airplane taking off at sunset Many of my friends have hobbies, from pickleball, making quilts, binge watching (is that a hobby?) gourmet cooking, baking, and reading. I enjoy all these activities but one hobby I especially enjoy is talking to the...
Disrupt to Change the World
by Marianne Clyde Disruption is how we change the world. Doing what others can’t or won’t do. Disruption is not as difficult or offensive and you might think. It’s pretty much just following your truth, unapologetically. Why do we, as women, feel like we need to...
Navigating Life when the legs of your stool are shaky
By Lorna Martinez Magill Have you ever had the experience of having a friend give you a nudge to get you to do something that is good for you that you might not have done if she wasn’t there to make you accountable? About a year ago, a friend encouraged me to make a...
Every “Spend” is an INVESTMENT
by Marianne Clyde I was at a store the other day and as I was paying, the checkout guy said, “Cha-ching. It goes fast, doesn’t it?” I replied, “It’s just an investment and it comes back 100 times.” He just smiled. So for the last few days I’ve been thinking about...
The zinger question that made me pause
By Lorna Martinez Magill Have you ever had someone ask you a question that made you pause because it hit you so much to the core that it made your eyes well up with tears? I recently had this experience. About a year ago, my doctor recommended that I go speak with a...
All this over a martini
by Marianne Clyde A lot of good things in my life have happened over martinis. Including brainstorming with my business partner, Lorna. Shortly after we first started getting together and she sat and listened attentively to my long rambling weird story about my vision...
Discovering your WHY!
I Do you ever read a quote and think, man I love that quote, it sure speaks to me? I have many of those quotes but this quote by Mark Twain has resonated with me in recent weeks: “The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find...
Are you Asking or Apologizing?
by Marianne Clyde It breaks my heart to watch people who really want to make the world a better place and yet they are still living in a poverty mentality. Somehow society has convinced them that making money, asking for money and spending money is somehow evil. No...
Growing together: Parent-Child in Adulthood
by Lorna Martinez Magill As our children grow up and become adults, it's important to remember that our relationships with them will also change. While we may no longer play the primary role in their lives, it's possible to maintain a strong, supportive relationship...
What if you could?
by Marianne Clyde Why can't I make the money I want? Why is our non-profit ineffective? Why can't I write that book? Why is my relationship stagnant? Why don't I have more friends? Why does everyone else seem to have a fascinating life and mine is so boring? Whenever...
The Single “Stigma”
by Marianne Clyde When women find themselves single, by divorce, by death, or by choice, it seems like society feels it needs to step in and "fix" things for her. We need to find her a husband. We need to figure out what went wrong. Or we find ourselves wondering what...
Embrace Glimmers
By Lorna Magill Have you heard of a term called a “glimmer”? A glimmer is just the opposite of a trigger. They are the moments in your day that make you feel joy, happiness, peace, or gratitude. Once you train your brain to look be on the lookout for glimmers,...
create your circle of positivity
by Lorna Martinez Magill Some day’s life can be hard, so it is increasingly important to surround ourselves with positive and supportive people. I don't know about you, but I often use the phrase "they suck the life out of me". Now let me just say, those are not the...
