When I was a little girl, we didn't have a television, so my main entertainment was reading. I would pull my beanbag chair up to the fireplace and dig into a pile of books. My favorites were anything to do with myths and adventures, like The...
Pictured above: The glorious cohort from The Widest Net Retreat. There is not much more essential, worthwhile or challenging than building community. It combines the feel-good pheromones of sharing space, hugs and conversation with the endless days and nights thinking...
"WTF is happening in the market?!?" may be the tagline of 2024. Many business owners are finding that what has sold well before is not selling now. "Sure thing" products or programs no longer stand up to the uncertainty of the market. And while sectors of the economy...
As someone who majored in community development in college, built online community for 20 years on social media, ran a brick and mortar community space for 8 years and wrote a book on a community-based approach to building a business, you may be surprised that I am...
Pictured: Josiah Owens, Lucas Petty of aidaddy, Pamela Slim and Darron Padilla Last week, I spoke at ISA: The Association for Learning Providers. We were in heaven for 3 days discussing learning design, measurement, business development, partnerships and performance...
No matter how many years you have been in business, it is normal to be faced with a project or client challenge and think: "What the hell am I doing? Do I even know what I am talking about?" My former retreat co-leader and business brother Charlie Gilkey says "Some...
The crew of joyful Key Guardians who have made K'é a sacred space for nearly 8 years. Why is it so hard to say goodbye? Running a business for a long time is bittersweet. One one hand, you get to learn and grow with beloved clients, build and launch exciting new...
Anecdotal and formal research is telling those of us in the professional services world what we have known in our gut: 2023 was a very difficult year for business development. RSW/US did a survey of over 3,000 advertising agency executives and found this as well as...
Photo credit: Eric Williams and Fortune My extended community of clients, friends, family, book readers, speech listeners and online buddies have zero doubt who is the one person in the world I would most love to work with: John Legend. This is probably because I have...
We have all gotten inspired by speakers on large stages showing us the ease, impact and riches that come from scaling our business. The promise of passive revenue, productized services and steady and scaleable cash flow is alluring, but can feel totally out of reach...