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The Big Leap: Conquer Your Hidden Fear and Take Life to the Next Level by Gay Hendricks

The Big Leap: Conquer Your Hidden Fear and Take Life to the Next Level by Gay Hendricks, PhD Harper One, 2009 The Idea When something good happens to you is your response, “I don’t deserve this” or “Well, that was a fluke” and then, consciously or subconsciously you sabotage yourself, your idea or situation? Gay […]

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Don’t Let Your Business Run You

Business, Life, Work / Amy Green

The biggest mistake I made when starting my own business was letting the business run me rather than running my business. I hope to help others avoid that mistake by sharing some of my experience and what I learned starting my company, amy green design, which is now just over two years old. At the start of

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September 2019: Career Journeys

1 Comment / Strategy / Ciara

This month’s topic was meant to be Business, but a theme emerged from our contributors: the ambiguous, unexpected nature of career opportunities. Whether you’re building a career or growing a business, comfort with the unknown is a definite success skill. The business environment changes so rapidly that resilience may be one of the biggest factors

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10 Lessons from 10 Years of Being My Own Boss

2 Comments / Business, Work / Ciara

As of this month, I’ve been my own boss for 10 years. TEN YEARS! I deserve a promotion. It wasn’t my original plan. I was laid off during the recession, and ended up landing freelance clients. In order to start a business bank account, I had to form an LLC, and thus Pressler Collaborative was

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Lori Eberly: Fighting Fuckery, One Executive at a Time

Strategy / halinadelarosa

I recently had the privilege of sitting down with hospice social worker-turned- badass executive coach, Lori Eberly. Her well-received book Fuckery, discusses the perils of rudimentary habits that damage trust within the workplace and offers advice on how to change the behaviors that create this toxic environment. She currently is the founder of Radius ECD,

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Book Brief: Company of One by Paul Jarvis

Strategy / elysestoner

Company of One: Why Staying Small is the Next Big Thing For Business Paul Jarvis Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2019 The Idea When business advisors talk about “scaling” and “VC” and “staffing up”, do your eyes bug out or glaze over… or both? Have you wondered if there’s something wrong with you if these aren’t

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Book Brief: Girl Code by Cara Alwill Leyba

Business, Strategy / elysestoner

Girl Code: Unlocking the Secrets to Success, Sanity and Happiness for the Female Entrepreneur Cara Alwill Leyba Portfolio/ Penguin Random House, 2015, 2017 The Idea If you are a male entrepreneur, you may want to skip this month’s book review. This month, it’s all about the women, as Cara Alwill Leyba shares her coaching philosophies

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