There’s something very elite and cool about specialists. Just requiring one almost makes you special. Like stylists who specialize in cutting curly hair. Or matchmakers who exclusively work with Virgos (if it’s not a thing, it should be). That’s cool. But. Does it mean YOU have to choose one thing to do and be forever…

They say if you’re going to believe your good reviews, you’re going to have to believe the bad ones, too. They also say there’s no such thing as bad press. They say a lot of things. I might be a lifelong writer, but I am a first-time author, in a competitive space (is there one…

“Everything takes longer than we want.”  That’s what Dorie Clark told me when I interviewed her during my Summer Camp series in July 2021, and as much as we might pretend this isn’t true, it 100% is.  We’d like to think otherwise. You think, “this shouldn’t be hard.” Your clients promise you that this project…

Do you think of yourself as being “stuck?” Why do I ask? Because I hear it ALL the time. And I think we can all relate to the idea of “stuck,” because we say it a lot. And whenever we all start saying something, I start questioning it. ARE we actually stuck? Or do we…

I read this recently and it’s my favorite new quote. “What if there was no such thing as a writer? What if everyone simply wrote?” Julia Cameron poses that question in her book The Right to Write. I love it because it strips away the ego and identity from writing and simply positions it for…

I wouldn’t suspect you have—noticed my teeth, that is. No one gives a hoot about them. But I do. Not only has it gotten more crowded in there, it occurs to me that my teeth deserve better. What was the point of all that pain and discomfort with braces back in the late 80s if I’m going…

When I stepped out onto the stage for the first time since lockdown to deliver the keynote at Plunder Design, LLC ’s annual conference, I had so much energy rushing through me I could have powered a small city for a week. The audience was independent reps, or stylists, for this jewelry brand, and believe it or…

My sister insists that in one of these pictures I look nervous and/or unsure. Something about the eyebrows. And while I don’t think any one picture is all that critical, this one kinda is. Because it’s the one that will live on the back of my book, well, forever. Here are the two pics in question. Any…