I’m Barrie Davenport
I created Live Bold and Bloom because that’s exactly what I want to inspire you to do.
~I want to offer you practical information to push you out of your comfort zone.
~I hope to challenge you to live fearlessly.
~I want you to discover your passion in life and live it.
I’ve learned that the only way to grow mentally, emotionally and spiritually, is by stretching yourself. Not by practicing Yoga (although that’s a great stretch too!), but by doing something that might not feel natural at first. In fact, it might feel a bit uncomfortable.
It’s easy to live inside our closed up buds. But wouldn’t you rather open up and bloom gloriously? Wouldn’t you rather live the life of your dreams instead of just dreaming about it? Part of my life dream is helping others discover their own.
“And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.” ~Anais Nin
I write several posts a week about all aspects of life – relationships, personal growth, career, money, health, lifestyle. But there’s one common thread – how you can move far beyond the status quo and enjoy a full, enriching, balanced, and joyful life!
Here’s a bit more about me:
- I’m a career and life transition coach, helping people to make amazing changes in their lives and bloom fearlessly. If you are interested in my coaching services, please read more about it here.
- I am a blog coach, working with individuals to help them launch or polish their blogs in order to build readership and profit. You can learn more about my blog coaching here.
- I have been a public relations professional for over 25 years, working in corporate, agency and non-profit settings, as well as having my own PR consultancy. I have worked with celebrities, authors, artists, dancers, corporate executives, entrepreneurs, and professionals.
- I’m a freelance writer, having written articles for newspapers, magazines, websites, and blogs. I have written an e-book, 7 Key Ingredients for a Meaningful Life, as well as Discover Your Passion: A Step-by-Step Course for Creating the Life of Your Dreams, and The Bold Living Guides. I’ve written hundreds of press releases, proposals, and other marketing copy. I am available for hire as a writer if you need something written!
I am the Editor-in-Chief of another really cool aggregate blog called The Daily Brainstorm, a blogazine that brings the best blogs in the blogosphere all to one easy site.
- I run a blog about blog marketing, called A-List Blog Marketing, where you can find great info on creating an online business with your blog.
- I host personal development courses and events including The Habit Course, Best Empowering Tools, and the soon-to-be-launched Beautiful Life Series.
- Most importantly, I’m the mom of three teenagers who have taught me everything about living fearlessly, loving unconditionally, and being patient.
Please subscribe to Live Bold and Bloom to receive regular updates, and if you feel inclined to support my blog, please make a donation. Above all, please feel free to contact me with suggestions for posts, nice compliments, or offers for guest posts!
Download a copy of my FREE e-book, The Bold Living Guide: 7 Key Ingredients for a Meaningful Life and receive two self-improvement videos.
Check out my course, Discover Your Passion: A Step-by-Step Course for Creating the Life of Your Dreams.
If you’d like to read about my progress as a blogger, check out the case study below that is featured on the A-List Blogging Bootcamp site:
From Zero to 2001 Subscribers in 4 Months
My Articles Have Been Featured In . . .
Zen Habits — How to Simplify When You Love Your Stuff
Problogger — Reach Out and Touch Someone: How the Power of Personal Connection Creates Blogging Success
Write to Done –Write to Serve: Giving Deeper Purpose to Your Craft and How Writing Can Be Like Great Sex: 17 Hot Tips
Goodlife Zen — The Gift of Failure: Why Falling Flat on Your Face Is a Good Thing
Marc and Angel Hack Life — 25 Lessons I’ve Learned in 50 Years
Zen Family Habits — Simple and Consistent Parenting: 10 Key Strategies
Pick the Brain — 20 Ways to Stretch Yourself
Make It Happen — 10 Ways to Deal with Really Difficult People Without Becoming One Yourself
Momentum Gathering — Soul Colonic, Anyone?
The Power of Choice — Laugh and Be Happy: 15 Hilarious Blogs
Be An Original — Originality for Beginners: 10 Strategies for Uncovering Your Uniqueness
Unwrap Your Mind — Relationship Trouble: Why It’s Almost Always About You and Not the Other Person
My Super-Charged Life — Put Me in Coach. How Life Coaching Works for You
Contact: mybloomlife@gmail.com
Testimonials
“Live Bold & Bloom is a powerful tool for living a better life. Barrie walks the walk, and knows how to simplify complex problems with actionable, easy steps.” ~ Leo Babauta, Zen Habits
“If you need encouragement, know-how, or coaching, Barrie Davenport is the person to go to. She has a compassionate heart, a sharp mind, and an eye for what to change for maximum success.” ~ Mary Jaksch, Goodlife Zen and Write to Done
“Barrie has the unique ability to hone right in on an issue, and work with you to allow you to come to a realization of your own, which is so much more powerful than someone else telling you what your real issues are. Nurturing, caring and encouraging are qualities not every coach possess, but Barrie has them in abundance.” ~ Steve Aitchison, Change Your Thoughts
“Barrie is truly a gem. She possesses a wealth of knowledge, experience and practical wisdom, and added to that, she has a wicked sense of humor, a love of life and a generous soul. Writer, friend, coach, mentor or partner, whatever her role, Barrie openly and willingly shares her greatest gift — the ability to help you lead a better, more soulful life.” ~ Katie Tallo, Momentum Gathering
I want to inspire you to live boldly and bloom to your fullest potential!
My readers have climbed summits, created vibrant businesses,
written books, and dared to dream big dreams. Join us on this
adventure and begin living boldly today. 
Would you consider contributing some of your blogs to our web site?
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Barrie Davenport Reply:
June 4th, 2011 at 3:33 pm
Hi Ron,
Please email me at mybloomlife at gmail dot com and we can discuss what you have in mind.
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Very curious to learn more~ Crystal Wolff
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I’m 63, working full-time at a job I mostly enjoy, happily married for 37 years, 8 parrots, 4 cats, no kids, writing poetry, operating model trains, a philatelist. I’ve read much on personal development – in books and online. I have found much of what I’ve read is common sense if one really puts their mind to figuring out how to help themselves. I truly believe much of what passes for personal development is purely merchandising and advertising in disguise. If I truly wanted to help someone become a better person, why would I charge them for it? Helping someone is something done for free, out of the goodness of your heart.
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My dear Barrie,
I’ve been meaning to write to you for quite a while now. My name is Olga and I’m a 50-year-old woman born and raised in Madrid, Spain, from where I’m writing to you.
I just wanted to tell you how fortunate I feel to have discovered you a few months ago more or less by chance in the unforseeable maze of the Internet.
Barrie, ever since I read your first blog I realized you are a wonderful human being and felt an instantaneous affinity with you. Not only does your very articulate writing exude intelligence and depth of thought, but, what’s more important, your sensitivity and loving nature are fully evident in every single article you so delicately create for all your readers.
You never fail to reach my heart and I’m often at a loss for words when I discover in your writings a perfect description of my own feelings. You’re going to laugh at this, but I’ve even chosen one of your paragraphs to be read at my funeral as it so sublimely sums up my life philosophy! (In case you are curious, I’m attaching your words here: “The awareness of the certainty of death, the lack of physical evidence of an afterlife, the reality of human suffering, the contradictions and hypocrisies of world religions, the randomness of life events, these all conspire to pull the rug from under us and shake our faith in human superiority and divine intelligence. I have been thinking about these things for most of my adult life. I am a seeker. I have had faith and it has been shaken. I have sought truths, only to learn that my truth wasn’t The Truth. I now admit I know nothing, but I cannot give up on seeking. I no longer seek for The Answer. I seek for the pleasure of seeking. I have learned to embrace mystery, anmbiguity, uncertainty. I accept that if may be, it may not be. I can be happy with that. In fact, I think I like it”).
I relate with your struggles as a mother, with your questions about the meaning and purpose of life on this planet, with your deep interest in other people’s feelings and beliefs, with the difficulty of accepting the passing of time and its inevitable physical and emotional repercussions, with your daily effort to improve personally and at the same time contribute to the betterment and well-being of those around you.
And as regards that, Barrie, rest assured you are reaching far beyond your immediate scope. I’m only one out of thousands of your readers all over the world who are strengthened by your words and encouraged to become a better person than the preceding day. You can peacefully go to sleep every day with the comforting assurance you have made a positive impact on many people. You deserve to bask in that feeling.
It’s highly unlikely we’ll ever meet face to face, especially if our physical death turns out to be, after all the endless debate, the end of everything. But at least I hope you’re aware that our gratefulness and warm affection keep flowing to you daily as we read your thoughtful, compassionate and timely reminders, which I’ll continue to look forward to and cherish every day.
May you have a very, very happy rest of your life.
(I’m sorry I took so much of your time. I didn’t mean to. But I’d been holding these feelings for so long… that it all came bursting out. Ha, ha!).
Lots of love from OLGA.
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Barrie Davenport Reply:
January 19th, 2012 at 1:56 pm
My dear Olga,
I don’t even know what to say . . . You have touched me beyond words. It is amazing to know that there are kindred spirits all over this huge planet. At one time, we might never have known about one another or been able to share and communicate. My work as a blogger has blessed me a thousand times over, and that blessing is especially clear when I hear from readers who let me know that my words have touched them in some way. I can’t tell you how much I appreciate your taking the time to write this and let me know how we are connected — regardless of the many miles between us. By the way, I was in Spain two years ago and hope to return again. I haven’t been to Madrid. So if I visit one day, I hope you will let me take you to dinner! Thank you so much Olga. Lots of love to you too.
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Olga Jans Reply:
January 20th, 2012 at 7:26 pm
Thank you SO much for taking the time to write such a beautiful reply, Barrie!
But, by all means, I’ll be the one taking you to dinner!
With warm affection, OLGA.
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