If you seek motivation to use LinkedIn more liberally and well, start listening to and following LinkedIn Coach Ashi Chopra. She's a Mumbai-based entrepreneur who loves to help women (especially) tell their stories on LinkedIn, the world's largest social media site for business professionals.

We hear from Ashi on the missed opportunities of engaging on LinkedIn and that telling our audiences what does not work and what does work becomes vital. If we share only the highlights then nobody learns how we navigate our challenges, nor how we talked ourselves back into success.

You can find Ashi on LinkedIn here. You can enjoy our interview on YouTube here.

Debbi McCullough has written for the Economist, FT, and Guardian and serves as a Master Certified Coach and communications coach to leaders at Fortune 500s/100s including Google. Find her on LinkedIn. Book her for a consult on the communication challenge irking you most.

We spotlight a revered and favorite MCC coach, Master Coach Trainer & Author Dr. Marcia Reynolds, who has worked in 47 countries and reached over 100k people. Dr. Reynolds comes to us weeks after her Second Edition release of "Coach the Person, Not the Problem," already an Amazon bestseller.

We learn communications and listening approaches and habits leaders and coaches can emulate right away.

• Coach slowly to ensure you (and they) understand their problem. (You don't always know right away.)
• Be curious (super curious).
• Show that you understand to develop and retain their trust.
• Know when to give them space and be silent. And then...
• Move to the challenges, which many of us rush to first. (Resist!)

We also hear about what it truly entails to write a Second Edition of an already bestselling and revered book. (It's a lot, Marcia notes, but also rewarding and exciting, because much has changed with coaching and her views on coaching within six years.)

Find Dr. Reynold's popular and infamous book on Amazon here: https://shorturl.at/LVlsE

“There’s always a gap of what men can read, understand, and put into practice with supporting the women in their lives through menopause.”

So says British author and photographer, Simon Salt, who is working on a beautiful guide, the “Quiet Transition” to help men and women ride the perfect storm of menopause.

He reasons: Men are fixers. We are solution finders. ”Problem is with menopause, there’s nothing to fix, because nothing is broken.” Also, of the 80 or so symptoms women may experience in perimenopause and menopause, each woman's experience is totally different, and many don't know what to expect.

“We want to hear less score keeping, more understanding, and that "we are" vs. "I am" going through menopause. That's what this guide is about."

You can follow Simon Salt and the Quiet Transition on Substack and his other books published on Amazon.

Debbi McCullough has written for the Economist, FT, and Guardian and serves as a Master Certified Coach and communications coach to leaders at Fortune 500s/100s including Google. Find her on LinkedIn. Book her for a consult on the communication challenge irking you most.