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Why You Should Do It Your Own Way

Why You Should Do It Your Own Way

A number of the clients I’ve been working with lately seem to be struggling with the same thing. They’ve got big things they want to create — their book or their blog or their business — but they hit a brick wall somewhere along the way and the...
Outweighing the Fear of Vulnerability

Outweighing the Fear of Vulnerability

Have you ever wanted something and then when it actually happened or came through, gone into a full-fledged panic, and asked yourself why in the hell you wanted that thing in the first place? Maybe for you it was taking a new job or enrolling in grad school. Maybe it...
Wading Through the Mud

Wading Through the Mud

Have you ever been working on a project — a report, development of a class, a blog post, a speech — and gotten to a point where the whole thing just felt messy? I have. I do. For me, it goes something like this: 1. I start working on project with...
My Secrets for Shipping Creative Projects

My Secrets for Shipping Creative Projects

Clients and colleagues often ask me how I get things done. Specifically, they’re looking for insight into how I go beyond the idea and brainstorming phase and actually get to the executing and shipping of whatever it is I’m working on. That question has inspired me to...
Anatomy of 10 Years as a Solopreneur

Anatomy of 10 Years as a Solopreneur

On this day in February, I’m thinking about the 33-year-old woman I was ten years ago, having just handed in my notice as a development exec for Cartoon Network with a dream of following my call to empower teen girls and young women and blend it with my love of...
Reflections on the Death of a Hard Drive

Reflections on the Death of a Hard Drive

Yesterday morning while brushing my teeth, I plopped down onto my office chair and turned on my computer. My plan was to check in on email and attend to a few things before waking my son up for school. But when I turned on my computer, I was greeted with a little...