

Are These 7 Lies Holding You Back in Your Small Business (& Life)?
This post was originally written for FinerMinds.com and can be found here and here. Most of us have a constant dialogue running through our minds. Unless we’re well-practiced conscious thinkers, there’s a continuous loop of judgments, motivations, decisions, contrasts, parallels, directions, and seemingly an infinite number of other things running through our heads. How we speak to ourselves influences our perceptions, choices, and actions. Though we live in a world where we’

Heeeelllllllooooo, February!
Whoa what??!!?? It's February? I'm psyched to say that I became a certified Life Purpose coach at the tail end of 2017. No, I don't plan to set up a miracle shop to make everyone's dreams come true (yet), but I am putting together Small Business purpose workshops for 2018! The extended purpose learning also helps me add more empowered awesome to the work I do for my clients. So seriously psyched about the new adventures ahead. As soon as the first workshop is scheduled, I'll


Uplift Instead Of Undermine - Embrace A New Marketing Mindset
It takes courage to lift others up. Traditional marketing mindsets condition us to believe the most powerful sales techniques discover pain and offer solutions to bandage that pain. If the pain is eliminated, how will businesses survive? There's fear that they won't survive, so pain is exploited and supporters diminished in an effort to gain ongoing engagement/revenue. You're fat. The opposite sex doesn't like you. Take this and everyone will like you, but they'll only like y


Stay Inspired In A World Of Mixed Messages
As a copywriter who focuses on alternative health, environmental, and wellness brands, I'm constantly on a mission to shift, progress, and propel my clients and myself into new states of being. This requires continuous exposure to enormous amounts of new information. When I point-and-click my way through the day, as nearly all of us do, it's hard to ignore headlines of conflict, gloom, and contradiction. How much of the "good fight" can you fight when the messages you encount


Stop Chasing A Stale Carrot Career
As technology increasingly shapes business, our skills need sharpening, our job descriptions shift, and what it takes to succeed morphs as quickly as our social media feeds. In the scramble to keep up with ever-changing demands, it seems that professionals in every sector have forgotten why they chose their career paths in the first place. Passions get lost in the whirlwind of maintenance and heightened disconnection. I hear the same conversations unfold in offices, living ro