13 Mistakes Entrepreneurs Make and How to Fix Them
Bad joke alert: I just flew in from Atlanta, and boy, are my arms tired! ba dum ching! Anyhoo, I recently spent a mind-blowing week at Christine Kane’s Uplevel Your Business Live Retreat. This was my third year attending the retreat, and it made me realize just how far I’ve come since the day I…
Read MoreHow You Do One Thing Is How You Do Everything
A few years ago when I was still in the corporate world, the company I worked for was hosting a conference. One of the meeting rooms was changed at the last minute, and we needed to put up a sign to direct the attendees to the correct location. No biggie. A group of us were…
Read MoreKeepin’ It Real in Business and Life
Before we dive into today’s post, I just want to say “Hey there!” to all the new folks who are checking out my blog for the first time. Today I’m participating in the #BelleLive Blog Tour with the attendees from creativeLIVE’s workshop Build a Successful Creative Blog with April Bowles-Olin. This is a “blog hop,”…
Read More3 Surprising Reasons Why Your Problems Are Awesome
Let me tell you about the time my puppy, Skyla, almost died. OK, that’s totally dramatic, but it was a pretty scary situation. Skyla’s our 3-year-old pit bull with a lot of energy. She’s all muscle and much heavier than she looks. That makes her a great runner and jumper. But she’s a lousy swimmer.…
Read More10 Common Interview Questions and How to Answer Them
One of my amazingly ambitious clients has a job interview this week at a really groovy forward-thinking company. It’s in Australia, which is convenient because that’s where she lives. Interviews can be scary. You’re putting yourself and your work out there to be judged and picked apart by someone you’re trying to impress. They’re doubly…
Read MoreAre You Proactive or Reactive? And Why It Matters
I once had a truly miserable job. No really, it was the job from hell. My manager went out of her way to criticize my work, my coworkers bullied me, and it felt like everyone in the department took delight in making my life unbearable. It was so bad that I became physically sick every…
Read MoreWhat Are You Waiting For?
If you could live anywhere in the world, where would it be? For me and my husband Chris, that place is San Francisco. We fell in love with the city and its mix of cutting-edge innovation and laid-back realness. And who wouldn’t love the weather, trees, mountains, and of course, the bay. The problem was…
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