Are you being held back from your goals by your mindset? Do you feel there’s never enough of something, be it time, money, energy, opportunity, or love? Perhaps you think that it’s impossible to attain something you want to have …
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If you are a tiny business owner and find yourself wondering each week if you are focusing on the right tasks. This is for you. Perhaps you’re like many of us and you feel like you keep creating new things …
Are you a business owner and are terrified to take a vacation? Let’s talk about taking maybe a whole week off from work. What does that look like for a talented, tiny business owner? What does that look like for …
It’s summer here in the United States! Well, kinda sorta. The official kickoff in the US seems to be Memorial day weekend and with it a three-day weekend. This brings me to what I want to talk about today. How …
You may have heard the expression done is better than perfect. Well, today I want to talk about what that means and why that’s a thing. Perfectionism. It’s an issue. Many people, especially women, tend to out of fear or …
This week, we’re going to talk about ego, and specifically, how it gets in the way. Now, the ego of course is a very large subject. It is also is mostly under psychology, not necessarily about business. However, as a …
This week a good handful of friends have asked if I regret closing Manic Trout last year. So I thought it a nice time to talk about reinvention. I’m a fan of it. In my late twenties, a male friend …
How often do you push yourself through fear and do things that scare you? And I don’t mean things like walking alone in a dark park at night. I’m talking more about the risks that we shy away from emotionally …
An interesting side effect of deciding to close a business after 15 years is how many people congratulated me on being able to quit. At first, I was surprised by this but then I thought about it and realized how …
About six months ago, I made the incredibly difficult decision to close Manic Trout, my handmade jewelry brand that I had poured my heart into for 15 years. I wrote about the closing here and have been in awe of …
