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If you want ’em, you have to tell ’em

I work with so many smart, multi-talented people. Many have been in business a long time, or have developed deep, rich craft and expertise in multiple areas. While it is great to have so many options for offerings when building a business, it is critical to be very deliberate about your desired audience, and offerings, […]

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What is the price of “meh?”

On Wednesday morning last week, I got to see my friend Rohit Bhargava speak at a conference in Phoenix. His talk was super riveting and actionable. My head was spinning with a hundred ideas for implementation, that I was jotting down in my phone. There was not an extraneous detail. There was no artificial hype. The […]

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How do you find the thread that ties YOUR story together?

A few weeks back, my friend Amber Naslund tagged me on LinkedIn, mentioning that she was struggling to find a way to tie what felt like disparate parts of her career story together. Here is the original post: I really wanted to help Amber directly, but also saw that other people on her thread were having the […]

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What are the steps to creating a licensing or certification program?

Most service-based businesses (consultants, speakers, accountants, lawyers, etc.) who have been in business awhile have found themselves in a bind that sounds great to everyone else: you have so much business that you cannot handle it all yourself. While seemingly better than struggling to get clients, it is still stressful, and if you are not […]

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How in the world do you decide which training programs to do?

Awhile ago, a good friend posted a question on Facebook: “I’m looking for professional development opportunities. Think conferences, training or courses with the goal of improving skills and leveling up.” There were a lot of great suggestions on the thread. But my training and development brain couldn’t process answers without gathering some information first, like: […]

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