Musings from an Aspiring #ExtraCreditKid
Trips to Anaheim, then Las Vegas, and New York after two days at home; it all sounds pretty amazing and makes for a happy life story on Twitter, right? Here’s the real-life part, at this juncture, the only way that I could have the freedom to attend these events is by giving up $11k/month in…
A six-figure salary from a blog about succulents?! How is that even possible?! Wait, why CAN’T I make money from blogging? Re-thinking What’s Possible Thank you, Do It Scared® with Ruth Soukup for changing what I believed was possible with blogging. Ruth does these “Get Ruth-ed” episodes where she will “live” coach an Elite Blogging…
The twitter-verse is full of hopeful “new job” posts. Have you ever wondered how many of the jobs are happily ever after or do they fizzle out under the force of unmet expectations?! The latter story rarely gets told, but its the one I want to tell. Eight months into the tenure of my (now…
What company doesn’t strive to be more agile, innovate faster, and just be more? If you had a computational problem, you could throw more processors at it. But “technology scales, people don’t.” Growing the team adds considerably more complexity in managing relationships, introduces the risk of organizational dysfunction, and adds “social debt” risk when these…
Session Details “The hardest person to convince that you deserve something is you.” Wow, these profound words are a powerful way to start a session. Who hasn’t struggled (or is struggling) with self-worth?! As women, society encourages us to be modest and downplay our successes. It ends up becoming part of our internal narrative, and…