by Alex Perry | Dec 6, 2017 | Uncategorized
Chances are you’ve been here before. You’re sitting with a group of friends or acquaintances swapping stories. You share something that’s personal or shows your personality, and it seems OK at the time. As you leave, you start to replay the...
by Alex Perry | Oct 16, 2017 | Uncategorized
Early Saturday a.m. I had the opportunity to speak to a group of women from Dress for Success, Indianapolis about communication and confidence. We sat semi-circle in plastic chairs, with coffee brewing in the background. The women ate snacks and took notes while we...
by Alex Perry | Oct 9, 2017 | Uncategorized
Asking for things has been hard me for me. Asking for help, for directions, for additional explanation, for stuff I needed or even wanted, made me terribly uncomfortable. I learned early (from my family) that asking for help was a sign of weakness. Asking was...
by Alex Perry | Oct 3, 2017 | Uncategorized
Am I the only person who wonders if their content is boring? Sometimes, I’m plagued with the thought that no matter what I put down in writing, it simply won’t be insightful, interesting or valuable. I worry that “it’s all been said and...
by Alex Perry | Sep 19, 2017 | Uncategorized
Nine times out of ten, this is what I hear when I ask a client to listen to a recording of themselves. “Oh #$SX, is that how I sound?” or maybe this… “I can’t STAND my voice!” It’s hard to listen to ourselves. Why?...
by Alex Perry | Aug 15, 2017 | Uncategorized
That “Sales” as a job was an entirely undesirable profession was something I was completely confident in from the time I was very young. My first experience in direct sales told me so. It was 1984, and I was in first grade at Mitchell Elementary School in...
