Category: Life Stories and Insights

Years later, as I sat in the car with Stephen, all this came flooding back. The weight of failure—which I knew all too well—looked like it was crushing the talented, driven man I loved. Sonia, I told myself. You’ve been there before. This is exactly why you became a coach. Do something! “It’s just so…

I sat with my husband as he soaked in the reality of the present moment. We had flown out to Los Angeles from New York City for a meeting with his boss, and we’d been hoping for good news—a promotion, a raise, a new project. Instead, he’d been fired. And he was devastated. We were…

Pensions seem constantly to be in the news, usually making bad headlines. Scandals are typically of two types: defined-benefit schemes breaking their pension promises, and individual savers in all types of scheme being scammed out of their money. Although big news when it happens, most defined-benefit schemes do not fail and, where they do, there…