YOU BET IT IS. Four years ago today, I sang one of my favorite hymns to my Grandad as he died. I whispered to him that he had done good… and that there was nothing left to do. One tear, one last breath, and he was gone. But his memories — and the lessons he
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Archives for August 2017
7 Things EVERY Woman Entrepreneur Needs to EMBRACE, Now!
Being a female entrepreneur is hard. HECK, being a woman is hard. No, not because of some mysterious (questionable?) glass ceiling and not because of men. (I love men.) But because it IS different for us. It’s different for women ‘treps because we’re SO multi-faceted. We simultaneously have a strong DRIVE and a strong desire to nurture.
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Quick Rant: I Never Said It Would Be Easy
One of the things I hear a lot — especially when I talk about how my BUSINESS looks right now — is “Well, you know it’s not that easy.” (More on how “it” looks NOW here.) OH, don’t I know it’s not that EASY… You see, I didn’t have a backup plan or a slush
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3 Road Blocks Keeping Women Entrepreneurs from Reaching Their Goals
I am — obviously– a fan, a champion of women entrepreneurs. But, I recently wrote an article that was denied by a national publication I write for, regularly. This is the first time they denied ANYTHING I wrote. Their reasoning? “It wasn’t encouraging enough to women entrepreneurs. It may make them feel like they’re not
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The Profit of Being in Full Alignment for Women Entrepreneurs
I have been writing and speaking a lot lately about “ALIGNMENT,” and here’s the PORTION of that topic that everyone “gets:” Entrepreneurial Alignment aligns your actions with your goals. Therefore, you reach your goals more quickly and with less friction, less obstacles. All good stuff. BUT, there’s something else to entrepreneurial alignment than that far
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The #1 Way To FAIL At Creating A Group Program Or Membership Offer
There’s a lot of benefit to creating a membership program for your business. (And NEARLY every business can and should do it. (Examples can be found HERE.) The benefits include: financial growth and leverage (do something once, get paid many times over.) high-profit margins flexibility and portability (work when and how you want) a
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3 Productivity Hacks for Women Entrepreneurs
Productivity is today’s hottest buzz word. I know this because I received not one, but FOUR different emails suggesting any number of productivity hacks I should implement TODAY. =) They ranged from the simple “Drink water immediately upon waking.” to specific strategies about when we should cut on our “vacation, out of the office” autoresponder. I admit
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Can You REALLY Trust That Big Vision of Yours?
CAN YOU REALLY TRUST THAT BIG VISION OF YOURS? OR WILL YOU GO BROKE “WAITING” ON IT TO SHOW UP IN REAL LIFE? The biggest obstacle in my own business, looking back, was this CONFLICT of “right now money” and “future money.” In other words…. Because I’m not husband-funded, and because I’ve yet to find
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Should YOUR Business Offer A “Membership” Program
IF A CONSTRUCTION COMPANY CAN CREATE A MEMBERSHIP PROGRAM, SO CAN AN ATTORNEY, A SPEAKER, A THERAPIST, A PERSONAL TRAINER. SO CAN YOU. Admittedly I’m in the middle of a program launch and book titled, “The Membership Miracle: Cash, Connection, Community, and Continuity.” But stay with me, anyway… because we’re talking MONEY. LOTS of money.
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