by Ishwari Samarakoon | November 21, 2023 | Career, The Speechie Life Blog
Are you thinking about changing your job? Not happy with the KPI’s and expectations of your role? Feeling burnout? Are you looking to resign, but worried that the next job will be the same? Then you are not alone. I am hearing this from my mentees and a lot of...
by Ishwari Samarakoon | November 13, 2023 | Career, Hard conversations, The Speechie Life Blog, Work-Life balance
Here’s a little secret about boundaries. Boundaries in relationships are hard to hold. They are hard for you to hold. They are hard for other people to hold. ( Glossary definition of boundaries ) So when we are talking about boundaries, we need to start, explore,...
by Ishwari Samarakoon | November 6, 2023 | The Speechie Life Blog
Confidence. We all want it. The feeling we get when we can just do the thing without second-guessing, worrying or wondering. Some people seem to have it naturally. But the truth is, there is a bunch of stuff we can do easily, effortlessly and successfully. We don’t...
by Ishwari Samarakoon | August 11, 2023 | Hard conversations, The Speechie Life Blog
Ok, let’s start with a heavy hitter… Hard Conversations. This can mean different things to different Speechies based on your definition of hard and how comfortable you feel with conversations. If you grew up texting or avoiding hard conversations, especially...
by Ishwari Samarakoon | August 10, 2023 | The Speechie Life Blog
Hello and Welcome It’s an absolute privilege to have you here. As Speechies, we graduate from Uni knowing such a small amount. We think we’ve been taught so much and are ready to leap into our first job, our first day, our first client. Then very quickly we realise...
