Being a wife and Mom was the ONLY life goal that I went into college knowing. I know that sounds lame or not empowered or whatever, but it was my FULL heart. What did I MOST look forward to? Having a family of my own. Nothing else even came close. And money? I figured I’d
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Archives for July 2018
13 Reasons Why I Keep On Succeeding
I am a student of humanity… and nature. I am totally ambivalent about where those lessons come from. I can watch and learn from someone I love and agree with… and I can watch and learn from someone who is — frankly — detestable to me. But, watch and learn I DO. And I have.
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13 REASONS WHY (13 SNEAKY WAYS YOU MAY BE SHUTTING OUT BIG SUCCESS)
Women entrepreneurs — like me, like you — are a complicated “breed” of woman. We’re big thinkers, fast movers, constant dreamers, consistent movers, and always up to something. I have found that we don’t FEAR FAILURE… as much as we FEAR various aspects of SUCCESS. Will success overwhelm us? Will it interfere too much
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VIDEO: What Process Are YOU Trusting To Build Your Success?
Sponsor Saturday: The StoryTeller’s Throne
Storytelling is an incredible sales strategy… and READING stories — even fiction stories — helps business women become better writers, better bloggers, better communicators. So, when Jocelyn Bates – author of The Storyteller’s Throne — offered to send us a copy of her latest sci fi / coming of age book for the Birthing An Empire
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HOW MANY DIFFERENT REASONS DO YOU USE TO JUSTIFY HOLDING YOURSELF BACK?
Are you “not ready?” Is the timing “bad” or even “not ideal?” Can you “not afford it?” Is the opportunity “inconvenient” for some other reason? Would you have to — gasp — travel to say yes? Do you have a lot “going on?” Would you have to cancel a meeting to say yes? Are you
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STOP BRANDING YOURSELF AND START JUST BEING THE BRAND… OF YOU. #DUH
I am smarter than my brand suggests. I DO know that it’s infinitely HARDER to sell HUSTLE than EASE. I DO know that tolerating — even EMBRACING — sloth and excuses and mediocrity and victim mentality is a POPULAR movement, passionately championed… and that going AGAINST this — and promoting ACTUAL accomplishment and achievement and
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BUSINESS BLASPHEMY ALERT: THERE IS NO “SECRET.” AND MOST OF WHAT “THEY’RE” TELLING YOU… IS TOTAL B.S.
I had a conversation yesterday. Many of them, actually. One with someone who has been FAITHFULLY and DILIGENTLY following a system designed to get her a CERTAIN type of client…. for DEFINITELY over a year, and I am thinking it’s been AT LEAST 18 months. Any client yet? Nope. Not yet. She’s going back
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THE SECULAR RELIGION OF AMERICAN WOMEN IS IN JEOPARDY.
Once upon a time, in a land we all know and love, women FOUGHT for independence. To think independently, bank independently, live independently, earn independently, love independently… And it wasn’t an EASY fight. There are times when I am guilty of too easily forgetting — even dismissing — how HARD this fight must have been.
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