Behind closed doors (Zoom doors, of course), in hushed voices, clients and colleagues confess the same thing to me over and over again: “I hate social media.” It’s said with a variety of emotions. Some, it’s exhaustion and exasperation because they’ve been using it consistently and feel like it’s a necessary evil. Some it’s resignation,…
This article starts, like many of them do, with a story of me being coached. I have my clearest moments when I’m asked tough questions and I verbally process my thoughts. We were talking about marketing and how I don’t like most marketing strategies, and she asked “What do you find fun in your business?”…
I’ve been trying to write an article about running experiments in your business for nearly 2 hours now. I had it all planned out ahead of time, I made my cup of tea, set up at the kitchen table like I always do. I wrote part of it, and maybe next week you’ll get to…
It’s 8:45pm, and yet again I find myself doing the mindless ping ponging on my phone. I check email, jump over to see if I have any texts, then swipe three pages over to my folder I’ve named “lame apps”, swipe another two pages, and find the Instagram app. I know I shouldn’t do it,…
I know I’m not the only one who struggles with outreach — this is a common theme in coaching calls with my clients. My response used to be “just pretend they’re human and say what you would want to say to another human”, but now I know better. Now I know that it’s precisely because they’re human…
It happened again. 9 years in, so I should have seen it coming. I don’t know why I thought this time would be different. Last week I was really excited. I started working with a new coach in a new group and one of our first topics was “core message”. I cannot tell you how…
As I approach my 10 year business anniversary, I reflect on how much my understanding of my own job has changed since the beginning. I used to believe that basic coaching was enough to get someone unstuck — and it was for a lot of people! But over the years as I expand my skills…
When you’re running your own business, typically you’re faced with high levels of complexity, a constantly changing marketplace, a deluge of ideas, and lack of community. Where do you look for trustworthy support? How do you sort out the conflicting messages you’re hearing daily? How do you get out of your own head and see…
Am I ready to write about this? I’m not sure. Am I sick of hearing B.S. rhetoric of instant financial success? Absolutely. So here it goes. The coveted $100k year. For most entrepreneurs, this is the milestone they aspire to. They speak it in affirmations, they visualize it on their vision boards, and they declare…
The first, last, and only time I ever had a successful morning routine was in 2015. The childless, spouseless (and largely client-less) whimsical days of my business. I decided to write an e-book. Writing is not my favourite thing, and I had just learned the “eat the frog” concept (from a book by Brian Tracy that…