Business
I’m a real sucker for inspirational speeches from movies. And I was talking with an entrepreneur this week who is experiencing the downs of business. And I shared this clip. Here’s some things that stuck out to me with the inevitable lows in business and this clip. We ALL go through it if we’ve done…
My son was asking me about my career today and I always start it by saying “my first love was journalism.” What I learned in that spark of a career changed me. Helping those wanting to know … know more. To help share more about the things they cared about. My stay was local journalism.…
I’ve lived in my head for most of my life. The last four years, it’s been treading the path of diving into my feelings. The deep work has been all about feelings. Starting to actually feel them and not numb or void them. Then the work of processing them. And eventually accepting them. In the…
In the past, for over a decade, I was my own brand of business road warrior and it wore on me and my emotional and physical health. Translation: I mostly dreaded it. I didn’t like being away from my family. I don’t like airports. Airplanes are so uncomfortable. And living out of a suitcase for…
Recently I’ve been in a very good and healthy headspace to review my career so far and do some reflecting and, really, feel how proud I am of it all. This is who I was (or rather what I did) before riding the adventure of entrepreneurship for the last 15 years. But they all resonate…
I’ve read accounts of several star athletes (Tom Brady and Michael Jordan standout) who hold a sentiment about losing that REALLY resonates with me. It goes something like this: Losing sucks worse than winning feels good. I don’t want to admit it. But it’s a self-realization I’ve had about myself. It’s true in my life.…
Change is about loosening your grip enough in order to readjust it. It can feel frightening if you think the grip is to a rope suspended high above. That’s the ego distortion.
Been working on changing the default settings and here’s one …. Switching all my role models (real, perceived, historical, fictional) to female first. And it’s opened up so deeper, fuller thoughts in such a good positive way. My first one that immediately came to mind … Rey Skywalker. Fierce, focused, dedicated, bold
Three years ago I rented a little “dorm room” sized office for my next chapter home. It was $200 a month. I paid more for internet. And this pic above was me taking a next step into this chapter of my life. This week I’m moving out. I don’t take time typically to mark events…
The pioneering web design book titled Don’t Make Me Think made a huge impression on me over a decade ago … and the title has become a mantra for me in business and marketing. Don’t make prospective customers on a sales page think hard When publishing a blog post or sending an email don’t make…