Women entrepreneurs — like me, like you — are a complicated “breed” of woman. We’re big thinkers, fast movers, constant dreamers, consistent movers, and always up to something. I have found that we don’t FEAR FAILURE… as much as we FEAR various aspects of SUCCESS. Will success overwhelm us? Will it interfere too much
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Storytelling is an incredible sales strategy… and READING stories — even fiction stories — helps business women become better writers, better bloggers, better communicators.  So, when Jocelyn Bates – author of  The Storyteller’s Throne — offered to send us a copy of her latest sci fi / coming of age book for the Birthing An Empire
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I am smarter than my brand suggests. I DO know that it’s infinitely HARDER to sell HUSTLE than EASE. I DO know that tolerating — even EMBRACING — sloth and excuses and mediocrity and victim mentality is a POPULAR movement, passionately championed… and that going AGAINST this — and promoting ACTUAL accomplishment and achievement and
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  I had a conversation yesterday. Many of them, actually. One with someone who has been FAITHFULLY and DILIGENTLY following a system designed to get her a CERTAIN type of client…. for DEFINITELY over a year, and I am thinking it’s been AT LEAST 18 months. Any client yet? Nope. Not yet. She’s going back
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Think aspirin and ibuprofen can’t be made better… and made into a business?  Think again! This is EXACTLY what Josh and Tony Breeden did with b+b products! Josh and Tony Breeden grew up in the Smoky Mountains of Tennessee. At the height of the recession in 2009, Tony founded Ole Smoky Moonshine and Whiskey to
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People often ask me how I write the way I do… How I can “unleash” the message the way I do, and as OFTEN as I do, (daily) and how seemingly unrelated “topics” EFFECTIVELY SELL… whatever it is I’m selling that day. The answer is simple, but also a BIG FAT CONTRADICTION. In order to
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Do you think this business of yours is just something you “fell” into? Do you think YOU being YOU… in YOUR industry… with YOUR unique (insane) desires and ideas… and YOUR personality… and the CRAZY way you want to show up… is an ACCIDENT? Or a HAPPENSTANCE? Nope. No, and no. This business is YOURS.
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AND THEREFORE CAN’T JOIN US IN BEING IN THE TOP 5% OF WOMEN ENTREPRENEURS. It’s REALLY not that I don’t care, I promise. it’s just that these stories…. are keeping you STUCK. So, so, so incredibly, unbelievably STUCK. ANCHORED to your past. ANKLE CHAINED to your bullshit excuses. WEIGHED DOWN by made up reasons “why
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