Last week, I was lucky enough to be interviewed by the lively crew from Rise of the Cubicle Farmer, AJ Leon, Melissa Leon and Tony Leon. They are whip-smart creative entrepreneurs from New York City who had the crazy brainstorm to travel around the country interviewing people who left their corporate jobs to start a [...]
Do you ever wonder why you have a lot of “great prospects in the funnel,” but not a lot of closed sales? It could be because you don’t have a clear understanding of the sales process, and how to use it to move the right opportunities forward and weed out the rest. This 16 minute [...]
I felt a little hand on my shoulder at 5am this morning and the breath of my son Josh’s voice in my ear. “Wake up Mom, it is time to go downstairs!” The morning sky was still dark. The birds were still snoring in their nests. I dragged myself out of bed and headed straight [...]
I just started contributing to a group blog started by Chris Brogan called Escape Velocity. In its own words: Many pieces go into achieving escape velocity from situations that hold us in their grasp. Maybe you don’t like your job any more. Maybe you’d like to be home with the family more often, instead of [...]
The Side Hustle and Flow Interview Series is designed to inspire hard-working corporate employees to either start a side hustle if they are interested in eventually starting a business, or to keep going with their existing side hustle through the inevitable challenge of limited time and energy. So far we have profiled Chandoo, Willie Jackson, [...]
In the last three weeks, I have attended three conferences: Wealthy Thought Leader in San Francisco, Conquer & Grow in Las Vegas, and BOLO 2010 in Phoenix. All were crawling with smart, motivated and optimistic entrepreneurs. Since I had many, many conversations with both the speakers and the participants, I noticed an interesting phenomenon: many [...]
If you are feeling scared, stressed or overwhelmed by fear right now for whatever reason, this one’s for you. You ARE worth protecting! Fear got you down? Fire up your inner warrior from Pamela Slim on Vimeo.
The Side Hustle and Flow Interview Series is designed to inspire hard-working corporate employees to either start a side hustle if they are interested in eventually starting a business, or to keep going with their existing side hustle through the inevitable challenge of limited time and energy. So far we have profiled Chandoo, Willie Jackson [...]
Last June, I had the privilege of speaking at Harvard University at Nick and Nikki Morgan’s Public Words Speaker Forum. One the second day of the event, we were treated to presentations from some of Public Words’ clients, who were videotaping their talks for speaker reels, and to examine their style in detail. One such [...]
On Saturday night, my plane from San Francisco dropped down above the Phoenix metro area. I saw miles and miles of lights beneath me, stretching out over all corners of the valley. We flew over the financial district, and I saw a row of big skyscrapers. The floors of each building were undoubtedly crammed with [...]
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