A colleague of mine, Michelle, was launching her own life coaching business and wanted advice. So I spent some time on the phone with her one quiet Friday afternoon and told her all the things I thought she needed to do to make her offerings more clear, unique, and benefit-oriented. I went through her website,…
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Passion is Not a Business Plan: Why Mission Trumps It, Every Time
READ MORE: Passion is Not a Business Plan: Why Mission Trumps It, Every TimeYou’re passionate about what you do. But is anyone else? I mean really—are they? Everyone loves to talk about how pivotal passion is: find your passion, live your passion. But the fact is, passion itself is not a business plan, nor an imperative for anyone else. Your job is to make me care about a thing,…
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You Don’t Need Power Tools to Be a Feminist
READ MORE: You Don’t Need Power Tools to Be a FeministI know what I’m good at. I know what I want to do. And I know what I have zero interest in doing for myself: filing my own taxes, perfecting homemade hollandaise sauce, putting up my own preserves, or hanging cupboards. I don’t want to spend a second longer in a Home Depot than I…
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Why Online Dating Is So Much Better Now (Kind of)
READ MORE: Why Online Dating Is So Much Better Now (Kind of)I’ve recently re-entered the online dating pool, and surprise surprise, it’s just as much a hot mess as it was last time I was here. The bare torsos, the cringeworthy cliches, the fevered search for the next quick hookup. But something has changed. The process has gone from a desktop portal of long-winded applications and essay…
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Work Smarter, Not Harder: Overcome Busyness with Carson Tate, founder of Work Simply
READ MORE: Work Smarter, Not Harder: Overcome Busyness with Carson Tate, founder of Work SimplyCarson Tate was working in sales when she realized there was a direct correlation between how organized she was and how much revenue she brought in. When her colleagues adopted her system and started earning more, she knew she was onto something. Carson saw that as her cue: She left her full-time job and launched her…
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Content First: How Alexis Wolfer Made The Beauty Bean Worth Talking About
READ MORE: Content First: How Alexis Wolfer Made The Beauty Bean Worth Talking AboutAlexis Wolfer is the founding editor in chief of TheBeautyBean.com, a TV host, a certified health coach, and a real beauty activist. She is also the author of The Recipe For Radiance: Discover Beauty’s Best-Kept Secrets in Your Kitchen (Running Press, 2014) and the forthcoming Radiant Bride (Running Press, Dec 2015). I recently had Alexis…
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Don’t Give Up Just Because Everyone Else Wants It, Too
READ MORE: Don’t Give Up Just Because Everyone Else Wants It, TooYou are afraid to go for a thing. An opportunity, a job, a promotion. Your main reason is because, well, other people want it, too. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve heard this. Including the other day, when a young writer told me that she would love to pitch magazines with ideas she…
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The Business of Friendship: Meet Shasta Nelson, author of Friendships Don’t Just Happen
READ MORE: The Business of Friendship: Meet Shasta Nelson, author of Friendships Don’t Just HappenShasta Nelson is a relationship expert and the author of Friendships Don’t Just Happen. She is also the CEO of a female friendship-matching site called GirlFriendCircles.com, which she created after recognizing that many of her life coaching clients were having a hard time finding meaningful relationships with other women. I recently had Shasta on my show, Solopreneur on the Whatever…
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How the Boyfriend Excuse Undermines You
READ MORE: How the Boyfriend Excuse Undermines YouI’m going to confess to you, right here and now, that I have done feminism a grave disservice. And I’m a repeat offender. I have used the “I have a boyfriend” excuse to duck, dodge, or deflect unwanted attention. On many occasions. I said it when I was 100% single. And every time I’ve said those words to…
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Please Stop Asking This Question on Dates
READ MORE: Please Stop Asking This Question on DatesPlease, for the love of all things holy, stop asking the people you meet online if they’ve “had any luck” on the site. Stop, stop, stop. I realize that you think it’s just in the spirit of fair gamesmanship (“hey we’re all on this together,” and “I’m such a good sport about this”) but you…
