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Introducing the Pregame Clubhouse: A Space for Creating Your Success

Business, Career, Strategy, Work / Ciara

After the past decade of working with people to create a Game Plan for achieving their personal and professional goals, I’m excited to launch the first Pregame Clubhouse this August in Portland, Oregon. Our Pregame PDX Clubhouse is a space dedicated to giving you the guidance, support, and connections you need to move forward. It’s your headquarters away from the hustle, […]

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Does Your Passion Have to Be Your Career?

Career / Ciara

An excerpt from Exit Stage Right: The Career Change Handbook for Performers. A partial version also appears in Game Plan. There are a whole lot of people out there (and talk shows and magazines and, yes, self-help books) telling you to Do! What! You’re! Passionate! About! – and that’s lovely, inspiring even. After all, no

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From 9-5 Survive to Career Thrive

Career, Life, Strategy, Work / Amy Green

Working the 9-5 is showing up simply in order to get a paycheck. Having a job is a survival mechanism rather than a thriving mechanism. So how do we take a job from surviving to thriving? By having a fulfilling career rather than a job we’re surviving. Career Thrive! A thriving career allows you, as

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Your CFO: Financial Tips for Pursing Your Dream Career

Business, Work / Melissa Anderson

You’ve decided to leave your job of 30 years and your $100,000 salary to pursue your dream career – congrats! Making a career change to pursue your passion isn’t easy or cheap, but it’s definitely possible if you’re willing to change your lifestyle and spending habits to make it happen. Before you make the leap,

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Your CFO: Setting Boundaries for Successful Relationships

Business, Work / Melissa Anderson

It’s 10pm and you’re finally laying down to relax and read a book when the phone starts ringing. As you reach for it, your mind races – Who could be calling this late? I hope it’s not an emergency! Your eyes move to the caller ID… It’s him again – the nightmare client without boundaries!

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Building Your Network: Value Others’ Time To Make Valuable Connections

Business, Career, Strategy / Ciara

As a marketing and publicity strategist working with entrepreneurs, I get a request like this at least once a week: Hey Ciara! I have a launch/event/campaign coming up and I want to pick your brain on how to market it/get press/do everything. Can I take you out for coffee/lunch/a drink (on me!!!!!!) next week? xoxoxoxo

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The Entrepreneur’s Journey: More Important Than the Outcome?

Business, Life, Strategy / kevinurban

All my life I’ve focused more on the destination than the journey. Whether telling my parents what I wanted to do on our next Disney World trip, watching the clock during swim practice, or thinking about the meal I’d have when finished, I’d often not fully appreciate what I was doing in the present. In fact, I’ve

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