Pinned5 Big advantages to keeping your business (very) smallA Company of One is simply a business that questions growth. ~ Paul Jarvis There are ways to grow that aren’t about more or bigger. Your business can flourish in wonderful ways when you’re intentional about how you want to grow within a smaller container. …2 min read
Jun 3Growing Your Business is Like Dating: You Can’t Only Have First Dates If You Want Something That LastsThe first Zoom date I ever had lasted 8 and a half hours. We matched on Bumble, and after a few days of fun texting, we decided to ‘meet’ the coming Friday evening. It was April 2020 during our first lockdown. We were still getting used to this new Zoom…3 min read
Jun 2What is Was Like to Watch Top Gun Again After 36 YearsI was 13 when I saw Top Gun. This weekend, 36 years later, I watched it again with my kids. Here’s how it went down… Aside: It is so f’n strange to say 36 years have passed. I don’t even feel 36 years old in my mind. Watching a movie…2 min read
May 5Here’s why you’re not simplifying your business even though you know it’s the best way to ensure long-term successChange is a pain in the ass. Even when we really want to make a change, we hit a lot of resistance. For busy entrepreneurs, there never seems to be enough time. Because meaningful change requires deep thinking and modifications to the way things are done. And simplifying a business…2 min read
May 2The people in your life matter more than how much grit or resilience you haveWhat are you doing to improve your life? It’s a lot more about your environment than your personality. Eric Barker’s new book Plays Well With Others is coming out soon. Today in his always valuable newsletter he shared an excerpt that he had to cut from the book because of…2 min read
Apr 29The paradox of success and why even smart, self-aware entrepreneurs don’t escape itI have a fear of success. A big part of success for me is having a profitable business that helps many people and that fuels the lifestyle I want. Because I haven’t saved enough money for the future, success means making more money than I ever have before. And I’ve…2 min read
Apr 27Why you’ll never get what you really want from a digital course and that’s okayIn February 2011, I signed up for Marie Forleo’s B-School. By that point, I had been reading and watching Marie’s content regularly for a few years. For longer than that, I’d been dreaming of starting my own business. And I was finally ready to be serious about my dream so…2 min read
Apr 26Why “taking it to the next level” is lazyWhat does it even mean to take it to the next level? Every time I’ve used this phrase on a sales page or in an email, I cringed a little. It felt like settling. …2 min read
Apr 25Does counting hours help us be more mindful of how we spend them?There are 132 days until I turn 50. That’s 2,112 waking hours. How many of those hours will I spend doing things that feed me? Things that will directly impact how I feel and who I will be on that day? I can’t know for sure. For the most part…2 min read
Apr 23It’s time to get real about why it’s so hard to niche down: 5 ego-based reasons we resist defining a niche.Niche resistance is real. For years I didn’t take the leap into entrepreneurship because I was freaked out by the thought of committing to one idea, let alone to a specific niche. But after working with hundreds of online business owners, I’ve seen how the most successful people were those…2 min read
