When it comes to your business, are you accountable to anyone except yourself? Because if you don’t have any accountability…it’s time to get some! The first time I ever thought about accountability was at my first HOW Conference in Chicago, where Luke Mysse was talking about having an advisory board for your business—even your...

Do you constantly compare yourself to other people and come up short? If so, you're not alone. In this latest podcast interview in the Experienced Newbie series, Lisa Mullis of Paraphrase Communications, and I talked about the danger of comparing yourself to others, and of comparing your current self trying something new to your...

In preparation for the for-women-only Titanides Women's Success Accelerator in Delray Beach on October 17, each speaker was asked to write a letter to her younger self, which will be turned into a book that all attendees at the event will receive. Here's what I wrote -- hope to see...

Things haven’t just changed in my personal life. They’re changing in my business life, too. And they’re the worst kind of changes—technical ones! Ugh. I feel like I’ve been resisting these changes for a while. I’m too young to be a fossil, but I feel like one lately. Before you...

Should you blog, give free advice, follow your heart and pick a niche? Don't you hate "shoulds?" I know I do. That's why I'm self employed -- so I get to decide (often with good guidance) what I should or shouldn't do.  Many creative professionals come to me with "shoulds"...