My friend Linda called it her "Onions and Orchids" file. Whenever she got a less than positive communication--an Onion--she'd whip out her Orchids file filled with eloquently positive messages about her worth and read one or two to get herself back on track. What...
I had a glorious 24 hours with my Mastermind Intensive group Sunday-Monday. We gathered at a member's home the afternoon of the 8th to create vision boards, have a potlluck and reunite after the summer. I was as much a guest as everyone else, basking in the warmth...
My dear friend Marisabina Russo, aka Cookie, invited me to her home in Westchester today so that I could see the new studio she recently had built on her property. Cookie and I were art majors at Mount Holyoke College with adjacent easels in painting class. From...
I only work with women on a mission. My clients are not women who are complacent with the status quo. They KNOW they are meant to do something important. They see something they want and are looking for support to go and get it. IT can be a boost in their business...
I left for my annual Kushi Conference this afternoon--4 days in Basking Ridge, NJ with like-minded people being served delicious vegetarian fare, attending lectures, cooking classes and social events in a peaceful, offsite location. Since giving up my car when I...
You! Most often I am super-charged and invigorated by the world around me and the entrepreneurial filter through which I experience it. When I describe my early business model of decorating eggs, what distinguished me from the multitude of other egg decorators out...
"I'm killing myself!" "I'm going at breakneck speed." "I'm crazy-busy!" I recognize that these expressions are intended to demonstrate some kind of value in the marketplace, or on the domestic scene, but from the 'taken-out-of-context' perspective, read what these...
I've been in NYC for seven months now and had my first up-close celebrity siting on the subway this morning. I recognized Christopher Palu, one of the finalists from Project Runway- Season 10, a design show I have avidly watched since its inception*. Anyone who...
You never know where inspiration and motivation will strike. For me it was late Friday in a new chiropractor's office staring at a sign on his wall. Under the emboldened saying were the words: "Five Dangerous Words to Say" and above that were the words themselves:...
I invited Lilli, an organizational expert, to address the women of my Mastermind Intensive yesterday. She focused her talk on Evernote, an online application which 50 million people, other than me, have found useful. Count me in now--50,000,001--since her demo and...
I'm excited to announce that I've been invited as a guest speaker on a cruise this November. This has long been a goal of mine--to vacation and work at the same time, which I encourage every lifestyle entrepreneur to do as well--figure out ways to incorporate your...
I was signed up to march across the Brooklyn Bridge yesterday morning as a sign of solidarity with the V-Day events going on around the world. I'd met the organizer of this particular project, Miranda Leigh, at the Omega Women & Power conference I attended last...
I was going through my 'blogworthy' file for ideas and came across a clipping from the Times--an article in the PREOCCUPATIONS column by Pam Slim, a successful business coach and author of Escape from Cubicle Nation. It's entitled Is This the Time To Follow Your...
What a relief to read this wonderful volume and be affirmed for behaviors that rarely get affirmed. I'm talking about the new book sensation called Quiet whose subtitle is: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking. If you've met me within the last...
Much of my journey as a Soul Proprietor has been directed by signs from the Universe that I'm going in the right direction. I believe in The Secret, the Law of Attraction and Earl Nightingale's Strangest Secret. Each of these doctrines points to becoming what you...
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