Archive for May, 2009

Ever since I read Sonia Simone’s Is Your Tribe Holding Your Down? post on Copyblogger, I have been fascinated to learn more about the “third way” marketing approach which takes all the good “tribe building” skills which Sonia says the Cool Kids have (many of whom are broke) and the “actually make money from your [...]

My love of books goes back to when I was about three years old. As soon as I could form the sentence “I want to go to the library,” my Mom or Dad would take me every week to get a new stack of books.  I remember the smell as I entered the San Anselmo [...]

I spend a lot of of my time working with people who are trying to figure out what to do for a living. I usually start by sending them on an internal expedition, examining the nuances, thoughts and feelings of their body, mind and spirit for clues about what interests them. They carry around notebooks [...]

I am exceptionally excited to share that I am heading out on the road this summer to visit with my creative, charismatic and smart blog and book readers.  I have chosen a few cities to start with that either: Already have a good group of people ready to help organize an event Are in locations [...]

The other weekend, my family and I headed north to escape the heat and relax.  Our kids were playing in an open square, and someone approached my husband with a flier. “We are doing a free event up the road, with dance and music demonstrations,” she said. Since we thought the kids might enjoy it, [...]

I did a guest post for Ramit Sethi this week on his blog I Will Teach You to be Rich where I discussed some common fears that hold you back from starting your business and how to overcome them. Ramit’s lead-in to my post cracked me up: A couple weeks ago, my friend Pamela Slim [...]

I think it was fate that Michael Port released his new book The Think Big Manifesto within a few days of the release of mine. Becoming comfortable with thinking big and gathering the courage to leave a “safe” life in a cube behind walk hand in hand. So I interviewed Michael about his book in [...]

Wonderful things happen when you publish a book. I have been sitting behind my computer for the last few days, marveling at the support, creativity and enthusiasm of my blog readers. News has traveled from unexpected places, and the reception of the book has been amazing. I updated my original “The book is here” post [...]