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Life Mastery Tools to Jumpstart the New Year

I recently made an addendum to a motivational quote I posted to Twitter & Facebook: “The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.” -Eleanor Roosevelt (I added: …and implementing the realization of them!). I know so many creative people–especially entrepreneurs who sometimes get stuck in inertia at the prospect of [...]

Playing to Your Strengths Is Not Always What It is Cracked Up to Be

What!??! Okay, let me explain what I mean by that and you are welcome to disagree! Many who know me have heard me say that you should outsource those tasks that you hate to do and don’t do well (or even those tasks you do well but hate to do). But what if something you’re [...]

Products, Promotion, Passive Income …oh my!

Happy Holidays and Merry Christmas! The following segment was a semi-spontaneous idea based on some questions I’d been receiving about product creation (especially audio) and then the technical aspects of creating and then selling your product. There are also other people’s products you can sell and follow the same technical process you would with your [...]

Are you a (*ahem*) Toilet Paper Entrepreneur?

I truly wasn’t in the mood to read another “Business How To” book, but when Scott Bradley sent me a review copy of Mike Michalowicz’s The Toilet Paper Entrepreneur, I was honored. When people take the time and money to send out a complimentary book, I will not let it sit on the shelf. I [...]

Interview with Mari Smith on How She Hired her Team through Social Networks

I was honored to have Mari Smith, who was deemed the Pied Piper of Facebook by Fastcompany.com on Productivity Talk Radio. Listen in as shares strategies on how she grew her team using social networks as her business went to yet another fantastic level of growth. Podcast: Play in new window | Download

Tacit Knowledge, Twitter, and Twitter Tech Tools

I’m thinking back to a conversation I had with Bea Fields over a year ago about tacit knowledge–you know the knowledge we take for granted that because we know it so well, we figure all people naturally know it too (even if the reality is different!). The first time I realized I was taking knowledge [...]

The Playing Bigger Implementation Experiment

Often when we’re stepping up our game and playing bigger, we (and that definitely includes yours truly!) sometimes feel a little overwhelmed–even when we KNOW what we need to do to take us to that next level. So on this special edition of Productivity Talk, I was what one of my mentors, Tim Paulson, calls [...]

Interview with NLP Expert Ron Hudson on Influential Elegance in Leadership

Inspired action is what it’s all about. If you are a team leader, you definitely want to download and listen to this show! Ron shares some great nuggets. Podcast: Play in new window | Download

Ron Hudson Interviews Your Truly

I was honored to be asked to be a guest on Ron Hudson’s Immediate Influence Blog Talk Radio Show where he asked me to speak on the subject of productivity and profitability. We had a ball even as my Diva child decided that it didn’t matter that her mommy was in the middle of an [...]

Interview with Business & Membership Website Consultant, Kim Beasley

Kim Beasley is known in some circles as the WordPress and Membership Site Queen! We discussed her upcoming book due to be be released in September/October 2008 entitled, “Business Makeover System: 21 Days to Good Habits.” This book will help business owners take an internal and external view of their business and refine it to [...]