Because of my somewhat public evolution from lawyer to serial entrepreneur, blogger, author, speaker, producer and beyond, I’ve been asked one question more than any other… Should I quit ...
I know, sounds ludicrous. Start a business for $100?! Not a chance. Ten years ago, I’d have agreed. Even 5 years ago, it would have been a challenge. But something’s happened in the last ...
I’ve been asked this question by everyone from bloggers to actors, artists to entrepreneurs and corporate aspirants to movement makers. How do I make a mark when it seems everything that can be...
Today’s guest contributor is my friend, Jennifer Boykin, an amazing writer, mentor and creator of the soulful, sassy and simply divine LifeAfterTampons.com. +++ Last March, my daughter Grace sh...
Every great entrepreneur or marketer is a student of human behavior. It’s no different with me. I learned to write response-driven copy in part because I wanted to learn how to sell more stuff,...
How do you build and scale a venture or a movement to touch as many lives as possible without blowing apart your own life along the way? This is a question I’ve been working on for years. Explo...
“I decided to stop selling and start radiating.” That, from the mouth of highly sought-after speaker, entrepreneur, strategist and author, Danielle LaPorte. The words tumbled out during t...
I wonder if we’re regressing… Any parent has witnessed the stage, it happens with every kid. Your little one has her first play date. The kids get along swimmingly, playing with toys, gig...
It started with my own frustration. I’d just signed my first book deal, and being a maven and a marketer, began to devour everything I could find about book marketing. Over the next year and a ...
I didn’t even see the words… A small group of us stood on the roof of a beaten down warehouse, looking back over the Manhattan skyline as the sun set, wind sweeping all shoulders upward. ...
What if we were doing it all wrong? According to my genius friend and founder of Riddle & Co. (recently acquired by Retargeter), Jeff Riddle, businesses are going about growth all wrong. They spe...
Today’s guest contributor is writer, coach, violinist, filmmaker, law school graduate, and web designer, Emilie Wapnick, who works with multipotentialites to help them build lives and businesse...
Launch, scale, flame or exit, rinse and repeat. It’s all anyone in the world of tech-entrepreneurship and especially entrepreneurship media can talk about. Because it’s sexy. It’s w...
There’s so much glory built around the potential for failure in the world of entrepreneurship. At least in VC-backed tech, you’re not really an entrepreneur (not my assessment) until you&...
For nearly a decade, I’ve had a vision to build a single venture devoted to equipping a new generation of entrepreneurs and world-changers with the knowledge, tools, mindset and support needed to do ...
I was recently giving a keynote before a room full of entrepreneurs and from the audience a voice yelled, “why are you telling this to us? We’re not the people who need to hear this. This...
At the end of my 2011 Annual Report, I created a simple graphic called - “10 Commandments of Biz” The 10 commandements were about doing business a different way. One that was designed to ...
He built the second largest boutique hotel group in the world, Joie de Vivre…then flatlined on stage while giving a keynote before thousands. Chip Conley survived, but this experience was a bit...
Every December, I reflect upon what went right, what went wrong, what took me by surprise, what I can learn from these awakenings, and how I’ll change what I’m doing next year. I do this by writing a...
I spend an inordinate amount of time speaking with, interviewing, reading, watching and listening to a cornucopia of leading and emerging voices on entrepreneurship, small-business, marketing and beh...
I recently cancelled an online service. It was a monthly subscription model. A solid service. It’s just that my needs had changed and I no longer needed it. I might have in the future, though, ...
A few years back, Lori Deschene started posting snippets of Buddhist thought on twitter under the name Tiny Buddha. And it didn’t take long for people to notice. Her following exploded.As I wri...
Last week, I shared how inviting judgment can and should be a critical part of any creation endeavor; how judgment is really just data plus emotion. And we shouldn’t reject the data simply beca...
Earlier this year, New York Times bestselling author, Julien Smith, and I had an interesting moment.It happened during a skype interview about swearing on blogs and in business. The whole conversatio...
Exposure to judgment and uncertainty aren’t going away. Nor, as a creator, do you want them to. Judgment, delivered constructively, provides the information needed to create at higher and higher leve...
Here’s a different thought.Instead of buying “stuff” for the holidays, why not invest in the knowledge needed to make great things happen in the year to come.Yesterday and today, a ...
It’s 9am on a Monday morning. You’re gathered around a meeting table.“Listen up, people,” says the SVP who’s leading your team. “We need new ideas. Fresh, creative...
I did a bit of an experiment over the last 2 ½ weeks.Something most “experts” will tell you is death to any blog.I stopped posting. For 2 ½ weeks. Not a peep.Without explanation. Without ...
Scheduling spontaneity. It sounds counterintuitive.But, the deeper you get into life, the more you’ve got going on, the more you need to schedule time to not have anything scheduled.Ritual is i...
How often are you thrown off by an inability to see what’s right in front of you?I recently had the chance to interview my friend and Money Magazine’s Online Career Expert of the Year, Al...
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