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Sylvia Duncan, “The Life Detox Coach,” inspirational speaker, and author of The Journey Back to You, teaches those she who calls Destiny Seekers, how to live life with resilience, happy and whole. Sylvia received coach training with the CaPP Institute and speaker training from the National Speakers Association’s Illinois Speaker Academy. TheBOSSNetwork: What were some obstacles that you faced in the beginning process of starting your business or career? Sylvia Duncan: I ran into several challenges when I started The Duncan Approach.Most of them were normal challenges anyone would face when beginning a startup, for example, whether to be a Sole Proprietor or Corporation. However, since The Duncan Approach is a series of training and coaching programs to help people who I call Destiny Seekers to think differently, the most important yet, fulfilling challenge I faced, was creating programs that would motivate people to change their thinking while at the same time, embrace possibil...

Conchetta Jones , A Personal Development and Lifestyle Coaching. Owner and Founder of She’s All That! Which assists women in finding the obstacles in their lives that are keeping them stuck and preventing them from living their life like its golden. TheBOSSNetwork: What were some obstacles that you faced in the beginning process of starting your business or career?  Conchetta Jones: Fear and not thinking I was good enough. Thinking I needed to get more education. But I got tired of seeing other people doing the things I wanted to do so, I made the decision to step out of my comfort zone and go for it. I decided to “do it afraid” BN: What inspired you to break into your particular industry?  CJ :  For years I had put aside doing the things that I wanted to do. I had all these ideas in my head, but no plan. After I started working with a coach, who helped me get my thoughts together and put some action with it, I knew that I wanted to be able to help other women ...

None of us want a career where we are dragging ourselves to work each day, wishing we could just stay in bed and under the covers because we’re bored, exhausted, drained and lack motivation to do our jobs. When you are not energized by your work, you are not as effective, productive and impactful as you can be. When we are energized by our work, our careers are more fun and fulfilling. If you want to feel more energized at work, the first place for you to start is to notice your energy throughout the day. Notice your energy It’s important to  begin to notice your energy levels while at work  because it will tell you where your natural gifts and talents are, where you’ll succeed most in your career, and the career success plan that will work best for you. You need to know the aspects of your job that have you come alive and produce your best work. Notice which work activities get you excited and you want to work on immediately. Notice the days you jump out of be...