Who are you? Are you a renegade? Me? I am a fighty, obstinate renegade. I reject the conventional box I’m “supposed” to fit into. I’ve been entrepreneurial since I was a kid. I started lifting weights when someone told me I couldn’t do it. I cloth diapered, wore my babies, breastfed, and still refuse to […]
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5 Reasons Why Sensitive Entrepreneurs Make Extraordinary Leaders
Have you joined Facebook groups or membership programs… with the highest of hopes… Only to have them dashed when you realize the community isn’t a fit for you? Maybe they’ll all hard-driving, bottom-line numbers focused and they don’t get why you care about more than numbers… Or maybe they’ve got the “say anything, if it […]
Is Passion the Key to Success in Business? Or a Sure Way to Fail?
I was sitting on a catamaran somewhere in the Atlantic Ocean when I had one of those interesting moments where life got me thinking. It didn’t matter if there was a crowd in the room… or an audience of 5 with only 1 person distractedly paying attention… The man in the lime shirt kept dancing […]
17 Ways Successful People Think Differently About Money
It was Einstein who said, “We cannot solve our problems with the same level of thinking that created them.” One of the lessons I keep learning over and over in building a business is that we’ve got to constantly challenge ourselves to stop, look at our thoughts and our mindsets and be open to growth […]
She Called Me a Liar and Said I’d Never Succeed
I did something I probably shouldn’t have this morning. I’d not yet had my morning coffee, I was a wee bit cranky, and I was in conversation with a lovely person who shared a bad experience she’d had with a coach that was affecting her still. But I’d heard the SAME heart-breaking story from so […]
How to Succeed When You’re Afraid
Do you consider yourself a brave, courageous person? Are you the type who could base jump or get on a stage in front of 100,000 people without fear? I’m not. I’m working on it though (not the base jumping, exactly, but the bravery). I loved the movie We Bought a Zoo and my favorite scene […]