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Songs of my dreams and awakenings
Dec 2024 / Women’s Journal
Women’s Journal featured Alison about the power of personal transformation gained through retreat.
Finding Transformation Through Retreat: Alison Pothier on the Power of Stepping Back
Nov 2024 / Cali Post
The California Observer featured Alison among the top 10 coaches in California crafting tomorrow’s leadership.
Oct 2024 / California Observer
The California Observer featured Alison for her expertise on achieving energetic congruence in leadership.
Leading with Energetic Congruence: Alison Pothier’s Guide to Authenticity
Sept 2024 / CEO Weekly
CEO Weekly featured Alison for her expertise in integrating intuition into leadership training and development.
Alison Pothier: From Wall Street Powerhouse to Intuitive Executive Coach, Transforming Leadership from the Inside Out
Jun 2024 / California Oberver
The California Observer featured Alison among California’s influential executive coaches redefining leadership.
Nov 2023 / Bold Journey
Bold Journey featured Alison and her husband Jules in their November 2023 issue.
Summer 21 / Malibu Times Magazine
Malibu Times Magazine shares Alison Pothier’s poetic words capturing summertime in Malibu.
It beats, the heart of Malibu in summertime, and if you can tune into it, you can attune your heart to its sound and song.
I love waking to a concert of birdsong ... supported by the percussion of booming waves and the frothy reverberation of the surf as it retreats into gurgling sands, inviting the pipers to take the stage.
I love freeing my feet to bare my soles to the sand, each step, an imprint of my soul.
I am reminded to play .... by dolphins and pelicans riding the waves beside the surfers ... dolphins back flip and pelicans feather dip as they skim the tube on sympathetic winds.
I love that summer days in Malibu are bracketed by ritual ... salutations to cotton candy sunrises and exhalations to rainbow sunsets before the lights dim to honor the stars - and the wildlife guided by them.
I quiet my mind, reconnect with my heart, inhale and exhale with nature and, with gratitude, mark my graceful endings and beginnings by setting my sights on the ever present horizon.
by Alison Pothier
29 April 2021
Aspire to Inspire
When we defer our dreams and aspirations to tomorrow, we deprive ourselves and the world around us of the inspired within us.
Fulfillment is a leadership quality, a personal responsibility and the key to one’s sense of purpose and legacy.
To lead and inspire others, to feel a sense of identity and completion, to ease the internal restlessness that seems unsatisfied by externally derived rewards or accolades, we must nurture our personally defined ‘Fulfillment Factor’ ... or we will collide with it.
When we defer our dreams and aspirations to tomorrow, we deprive ourselves and the world around us of the inspired within us.
Thinking our careers and aspirations are mutually exclusive, we imagine that “someday” our jobs will pay for us to have our dreams. Trusting “time is on our side”, we promise ourselves to invest in our aspirations once we have “enough” … money, time, freedom … to do so. We convince ourselves that we can handle “just one more year” as we focus on achieving and attaining the goals set before us rather than those defined within us ...
… until we can no longer sustain the internal conflict.
That’s when the identity crisis sets in … when we are satisfying externally derived rather than internally derived definitions of fulfillment … when we are being to the world around us something we are not being to the world within us.
Rewarded for self-compromise, it seems pointless to self-actualize.
Sometimes we imagine “we get paid” to compromise ourselves and believe “we are serving” others better by our willingness to do so. Martyring ourselves to our causes (our careers, companies, colleagues, companions, children and communities), we make trade-offs. We compromise aspects of our self on behalf of others ...
... until we no longer recognize our self in it and resentment rewards our compromise.
Martyrdom sucks as a leadership quality.
Sacrificing the inspired self in the name of our causes eventually translates into a loss of talent. Paving a road to resentment, illness and stifled creativity, it also gives rise to blame cultures and political positioning in a workforce … undermining collaboration. When we hold the world around us accountable for ‘the price we have paid for the sacrifices we have made for them’, we seek to redress the imbalance through titles, financial ‘compensation’ and benefits that make our continued compromise worth our while. It works at first, but no matter how much or in what form we are compensated for self-compromise ...
… our hunger for fulfillment is never satiated by suppression.
The authentic leader is actualized.
They are self-realized, wholly expressed, congruent ... and fulfilled.
What fulfills, inspires.
We cannot lead from the uninspired within us. Incongruence within ourselves is intuitively felt and heard by our peers and audiences. It undermines our efforts to rise, deliver consistent results, lead inspirationally and realize our full potential.
When we are aspirationally fulfilled, our contributions reflect the inspired within us. They sustain us ... and are sustainable. We become retainable.
The inspired, inspire.
7 Apr 20 / Malibu Surfside News
Malibu Surfside News reports on Alison Pothier’s free global ‘Coaching through Quarantine’ forum.
20 Jan 20 / Malibu Magazine
Malibu Magazine features Alison Pothier & Jules Williams on their docuseries IBULIEVE.
What Malibu Believes Feature
20 Dec 19 / Malibu Magazine
Malibu Magazine features episode 5 of Alison Pothier & Jules Williams docuseries IBULIEVE showcasing UN activist, Christina Stevens.
B.U. in your Activism Feature
20 Sept 19 / Malibu Magazine
Malibu Magazine features episode 4 of Alison Pothier & Jules Williams docuseries IBULIEVE showcasing Russian Artist, Ann Krasner.
B.U. on your Canvas
20 July 19 / Malibu Magazine
Malibu Magazine features episode 2 of Alison Pothier & Jules Williams docuseries IBULIEVE showcasing Musician and Photographer, Catherine Malcolm Brickman.
B.U. in the Arts
20 May 19 / Malibu Magazine
Malibu Magazine features episode 1 of Alison Pothier & Jules Williams docuseries IBULIEVE showcasing Actress, Shoshana Kuttner.
B.U. on your Stage
20 Mar 19 / Malibu Magazine
Malibu Magazine features episode 3 of Alison Pothier & Jules Williams docuseries IBULIEVE showcasing Musician, Deepak Ramapriyan.
