Archives for 2018

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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  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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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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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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  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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Think aspirin and ibuprofen can’t be made better… and made into a business?  Think again! This is EXACTLY what Josh and Tony Breeden did with b+b products! Josh and Tony Breeden grew up in the Smoky Mountains of Tennessee. At the height of the recession in 2009, Tony founded Ole Smoky Moonshine and Whiskey to
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