Fall Is For Reflection It's November and I consider November the very end of the year. You could continue building goals and try and distract yourself for another 90 days. Those who know me know I like to work in those 90-day Madwoman Cycles. But I think at this point...
Networking Makes Me Tired Conferences are exhausting. And yes, I know I have been to three in the last 6 months (Blogher, Rockstar Marketing Bootcamp, Ewomen Network). There's an element of content overwhelm going on. But aside from the sheer number of...
Marketing Makes The Business I just spent three days at a Rockstar Marketing conference. If there is one thing I have learned from being business over the last 2 years, its that no matter how amazing you, your products, and services are, you will not make money if no...
I want to tell you the best kind of Thanksgiving story. The kind that starts with giving and ends with the thanks. Sometimes, when building our businesses, we forget that we started them with the intention of being of service to others. If we can get back to that...
A Network For Women Entrepreneurs The Ewomen Network is designed to help entrepreneur women grow into their greatness for the explicit purpose of changing the world. When good women make good money, they do good things. And its true. Earning money isn’t about greed,...
Working for money is not a good thing. It's also not a bad thing. Most of us had to be taught to apply this "work for money" mindset early on in our careers. But we did not start this way. And there is no time like the present to break free of unhealthy learned...
A week ago I participated in a CaveDay. It's a community of coworkers who come together to get deep work done. Facilitators lead you through a serious of work sprints to help encourage deep work and extreme focus around the milestones of a larger project. so much...
It's Valentine's Day. A day, for love, lover's, and loving. Another marketing ploy to get thirsty Americans to buy useless stuff that will eventually end up in a donation bin, behind someone's gas station parking lot. Four year old overstuffed teddy bear anyone? Who...
Femme Totale Launch Last weekend, the Femme Totale, a newly minted women's empowerment network hosted our first event. This was a collaboration between yours truly and the talented stylist Luxe LeBlanc. For those who didn't catch it, there was fried chicken and rum...
A resolution is about deciding and you can do that at any time, and all year long. Who are you resolved to be? In this season of Kwanzaa, I am reminded to be an engaged community participant. No more crabs in a barrel. I want a world where women help each other succeed. That’s my vision for the Femme Totale community.
The Big Performance Review Talk It's that time of year again: annual review season. Now we are all familiar with annual reviews at work. Those horrible conversations where you are waiting for your boss to tell you all the things that they've been harboring for the...
No Drama In My Life I have a burn list going now for the last 60 days. It's the end of the year so as soon as October came I was all about going drama free, and maximizing what I want out of 2017. This came about in direct response to an excess of drama from certain...
Facilitation encompasses a core group of very specific skills, but they can be used broadly across so many different environments. Facilitators hold space for workshops, for team coaching conversations, for engaging panelists, and even for one-on-one dialogues. Taking...
Introduction: Understanding the New Corporate Transparency Act As a business owner, the exciting parts of entrepreneurship like living your passion, owning your time, and creating a legacy are undoubtedly appealing. However, the less glamorous aspects, like taxes and...
The Necessity of Common Language In this article, I will explore the history of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI), and how this distillation of a widespread social justice down to a Corporate speak acronym, combined with the American media machine, has made it...
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