New Year’s Eve 2010, my friends and I gathered around their outdoor fireplace in a declaration of love. Together, we honored my past and celebrated numerous transformations, burning 4 crates full of my old journals, credit card and bank statements, and any medical documents or insurance claims that at one point I let define my more »
We often jump into running a business without giving much thought to the qualities, characteristics and traits that make someone successful. We formulate an idea, we throw up a site, we create a prototype, we hire help, we throw money around and yet we don’t take a moment to step back and assess just what more »
We live in a connected age where it seems that, despite all of the technologies available to help us, people have less and less time available. Digital overload is a more common complaint now; RSS feeds, email, social media and mobile phones mean that we are often constantly bombarded with information. What to do with more »
This is a topic I haven’t been willing to look into for many years. All my life I’ve had a very low tolerance for people’s ignorance and low conscious behavior. For many years, I resisted it and judged it as negative, like I couldn’t accept the reality outside of me. It took me decades to more »
For every woman who’d love to have crowds shout her name, there are thousands of others who get terrified just thinking about this happening to them. This was demonstrated in an episode of “Keeping Up with the Kardashians.” Kim is being hounded by the papparazzi as she joins her stepbrother, Brandon and his wife Leah more »
{photo from Pinterest} Here’s the thing: The more you provide value, the more moola you earn. Yet what does it mean to provide value? How do you do it, and why is it so important? To really get how to add value in business, here is what NOT to do: I’m going to be straight more »
Ok, as I see it, as leading-edge women we are tasked with this challenge: as you love exuberantly and birth your greatness into the world, become MORE juicy and expressed rather than wrung out and run down. I can tell you (and I’m sure you can tell me), it’s a no-joke challenge. it’s not for the more »
Doubt yourself. It’s healthy. The number one thing that stops people from accomplishing their dreams – whether it’s writing a book, skydiving, starting a business, going on a particular destination vacation, or anything else – is doubt. It shows up in things like, “What if…?” questions like, “What if something goes wrong?” and “What if more »
How many stories do you carry with you? Those stories that you don’t want to remember…Where you blame yourself or another person..Or where you can’t forgive yourself. Where is it you haven’t shown up as your best self? Where do you have regrets or shame? What are the stories that leave a bitter taste in more »
Let’s focus on something simple: bringing in more business and increasing conversion rates. So we’ll start with something rather old fashioned, but stands the test of time: the handwritten note. Long before I discovered Keith Ferazzi’s book, “Never Eat Lunch Alone”, my headmistress brain washed us into thinking sending hand written notes was simply a sign of good more »
