I help you solve a specific communication or business problem.

  • Per meeting
  • Per hour
  • Per skill
  • Strategic recommendations
  • Review/assessment
  • Templates and resources as appropriate

I help you develop a specific skill through guided practice.

Under 8 weeks / one skill

Includes:

  • Intake
  • Face-to-face sessions — Zoom or in person
  • Selected literature
  • Templates
  • Resources
  • Exercises
  • Practice
  • Feedback
  • Accountability
  • Skill-development goals
  • Progress evaluation

    Coaching is a collaborative process. Your progress depends on your participation, practice, and demonstrated effort.

I help you develop over time by sharing experience, perspective, guidance, and professional insight.

8 weeks to multiple years

This becomes your longer-term relationship.

Blog

Reflection: Hanging Up with Elegance

Reflection: Hanging Up with Elegance

Barb – October 3, 2026
When You Know the Sales Script and It’s Time to Get the Hell Out of the Call A Lesson in Communication Mastery, Emotional Intelligence, and Strategic Self-Advocacy Have you ever answered a sales call and recognized the entire conversation before the person even finished introducing themselves? You know the script. You recognize the techniques. You can almost predict the next question, the manufactured urgency, the emotional appeal, and the carefully constructed attempt to overcome your objections. Perhaps you’ve even used similar techniques professionally. And somewhere in the middle of the conversation, a thought crosses your mind: How do I get...
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Daily Task: Problem-Solving Process

Daily Task: Problem-Solving Process

Barb – September 30, 2026
Have a problem you want to work through? Download the Problem-Solving Process worksheet and use it on your iPad or tablet. Grab your digital pen, open your favorite note-taking app, and use your creativity to work through the problem one step at a time. Identify. Explore. Create. Choose. Act. Improve. You don’t have to find the perfect answer. Start by creating space to think differently. Download the worksheet through Daily Tasks at IamJustBarb.com and make it your own. Copy of Life Coach Client Worksheets (US) - 53Download Disclaimer: This worksheet is an educational and self-reflection tool. It is not a...
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The Karate Approach: How Not to Solve Problems

The Karate Approach: How Not to Solve Problems

Barb – September 30, 2026
Karate teaches discipline, awareness, timing, control, and restraint. Those principles can also teach us something important about communication: Not every difficult conversation needs more force. When we feel challenged, misunderstood, disrespected, or pressured, our instinct may be to defend ourselves immediately. We may raise our voice, interrupt, over-explain, withdraw, or try to prove that we are right. But sometimes the harder we push, the harder the other person pushes back. A karate approach to communication is not about winning the fight. It is about recognizing the situation before deciding how to respond. What Karate Can Teach Us About Difficult Conversations...
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Reflection: Why Do I Say “Surviving Service Members”?

Reflection: Why Do I Say “Surviving Service Members”?

Barb – September 27, 2026
We often use the word survivor when someone has experienced something that changed the course of their life. So why do we sometimes talk about surviving service members? Because military service does not always end when the service member leaves the military. Some people return home carrying experiences that are difficult to explain. Some return with visible injuries. Others carry changes that cannot immediately be seen—changes in how they sleep, communicate, trust, respond to stress, build relationships, or understand themselves. And sometimes, the challenge isn’t surviving the deployment. It’s learning how to live after it. Transition can require a person...
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Daily Self-Care Checklist: Build a Routine That Works for You

Daily Self-Care Checklist: Build a Routine That Works for You

Barb – September 26, 2026
Self-care doesn’t have to be complicated. Sometimes, the most useful place to begin is simply identifying the practices that help you take care of yourself—and then creating a way to practice them consistently. The Daily Self-Care Checklist is a simple planning and tracking tool designed to help you create a personalized self-care routine based on your own needs and preferences. Why Use a Self-Care Checklist? It can be easy to think about self-care as something we do only when we have extra time. But intentional self-care can become part of your everyday routine. This checklist gives you space to identify...
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