I Had a Crush on a Boy
Many years ago, I had a crush on a boy.. Shhh don’t tell my husband! I remember how I desperately wanted him to ask me out. I knew everything about him but I’m not sure he knew I existed. I would talk about him with my friends, would lie on my bed and listen to
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How Do You Show Up?
Right now I’m living in what I would call a “construction” zone. We are in the middle of painting our home and chaos lives all around me. Yesterday, I couldn’t even find my keys. 🙂 Maybe you aren’t dealing with a major home project right now, but are you feeling the chaos and confusion in
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What is your unique brilliance?
Are you spending 80% of your time doing what you LOVE TO DO and getting properly compensated? When I first started my business, I struggled with knowing how to define my own niche, my own unique brilliance and the one thing I loved to do AND that people would pay for. If you
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HAVE YOU LOST YOUR FOCUS?
As I sit and write this piece it’s August and we are in the middle of a Pandemic. Whatever I had laid out clearly and neatly in my 2020 plan (back when I planned my year ahead in December 2019) is out the window. Monthly sales goals. Gone. Quarterly projects. Gone. Product launches. Gone. Travel
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WHAT PRODUCT DO I LAUNCH?
How many IDEAS do you have stored in your “back pocket”? If you are an entrepreneur like me, you are constantly brainstorming new IDEAS. You write them down on pieces of paper, you put them in a google docs, store them in Asana or better yet – jot them down on a napkin in desperation
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3 Tips to Hold the Vision & Trust the Process
I am sitting at my desk, it’s 9 AM and my calendar is free of appointments this morning. Actually, if I am honest, most of my mornings looked like that in the first few years of my business. I might have 2 maybe 3 client calls a day but the rest of the day was
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Online Dating
Have you tried online dating? I got married in 1997, so I have not, but many of my friends have tried it with great success. So I asked them what are the rules of online dating are and they answered: Don’t share too much too soon Don’t meet in person until you feel you can
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Are you ALL in?
I’m sitting by the beach today. I had an opportunity to work at a friend’s beach cottage and I took it! I’ve been asking myself lately what does it mean to be all in? What does committing to my message and my work look like, really? Is there room for second-guessing? For playing small? For
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How to build relationships with your market and grow your business.
Do you trust me? Your answer is probably… Maybe? I’m not sure? I don’t know enough about you yet. Or simply NO, I don’t trust you. Why would I? I don’t know you. I believe that in life and in business TRUST is at the core of any human interaction and is the KEY INGREDIENT
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How are you feeling?
I have spent the last two weeks talking with hundreds of business owners about what they are experiencing right now! After being a guest speaker this week I took stock of what business owners are saying and asking. (There were over 500 people in this webinar searching for answers – can you relate?) “My customers
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STOP
STOP Stop reading the news every 5 minutes. Stop counting how many people are infected or dead. Stop trying to be hyperproductive. Stop being resistant to what is going on. Stop praying that everything goes back to the way it was. Stop buying toilet paper… might be a bit late for that request though 😉
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We are family & families stick together.
Today I put on a jacket and I laid down on the grass outside. It is still chilly, here in Massachusetts, but the sun was out and I just needed to feel the warmth on my face. To feel safe. To feel whole. The noise has stopped on the outside but it continues inside of
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