Entrepreneurship

I was recently hanging out with a friend whom I hadn’t seen in over a year. To be accurate, he was a friend of many of my friends… so I didn’t know him that intimately yet. So we’re catching up, he starts casually mentioning in conversation that he’s been having some hiccups with his love…

“There’s two kind of clients,” he said. “The ones who get scared every time they need to make a move, and those who will dive into the fear so that they can get the answers they need to take action.” “And you?” He looked me dead in the eyes. “You’re fearless.” Although I wouldn’t agree…

Let’s address the taboo around taking a step backward in order to take two steps forward. This has been popping up a lot in my field lately, as I witness more and more business owners waking up to the ways that HOW they are operating is out of alignment with their deeper soul’s purpose. I…

If you’re a high-performing, ambitious entrepreneur, chances are you’re a bit of a perfectionist (or a recovering one). I know I’ve personally been down that rabbit hole, and it’s not a very fulfilling one: the path of the perfectionist has a whole lot of self-shaming, unreasonable expectations on the self, and exhaustion on a soul…

Too many entrepreneurs confuse their “why” with their “what,” which stagnates growth and makes it easy to feel unworthy of their own success. When I interview entrepreneurs and ask them about why they do the work they do, they typically give me a carefully curated “I help” sentence that sounds something like this: “So that…

  The biggest excuses I get from clients looking to build a premium personal brand are “I don’t have a story,” “my story is all over the place,” or “my story is not interesting enough.” There is so much self-consciousness — and as a result, self-sabotage — around using your life experiences as a story…

We’re continually looking for reasons why we’re unhappy right now. We take issue with our home, job, family, finances, education, looks, and everything else. We rage at our long commutes, unfulfilling jobs, and imperfect lives.   These problems will never end as long as we keep blaming everyone else. The more we blame others, the harder…