How to handle an emergency when you’re a one-woman show
When you own your own business, you wear a lot of hats. You are the provider, CEO, CFO, marketing department, and blogger…what don’t you do!? Turns out you are also your…
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Seven Secrets to Launching Your Own Jewelry Line
It often starts as a hobby; when you finish your first rainbow-colored friendship bracelet at summer camp and think, Damn, I want to make these for everyone now. And later,…
Sprint Towards Your Goals with Cynthia Johnson
With the start of the new year well underway, many spirited entrepreneurs are getting the feel for 2017. Some are finally learning how to Snapchat or growing their engagement numbers.…
10 Ways to Get Active When You Work from Home
For many of us, working from home means a lot of sitting. As a freelance writer, I spend much of my day at the computer, usually working through lunch. In…
Smiles Are The Best Face-Lift
Last year I read a fantastic book called The Boston Girl by Jewish author Anita Diamant. This story of a grandmother sharing with her granddaughter her life stories, trials and…
How an Email about Free Food Led Me to Becoming Self-Employed
I was guilty of being irresponsible. I found myself scrolling aimlessly through all of my social media apps during a Grapes to Wines lecture my junior year at Cornell University.…
The new War on Women: Calling out Ivanka Trump.
There’s no winning for Ivanka Trump. In fact – there may be no winning for women who either supported her father in Election 2016 or supported the GOP and voted…
The Only Goal-Setting Exercise You’ll Ever Need
Multitasking seems to come with the territory of being an entrepreneur. It’s amazing how many things you can do at once when you have to. It’s not uncommon for me…
Three Things We Can All Learn From Coretta Scott King
Today, we remember a great man. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s indelible mark on history stands with us today, echoing through time with whispers of hope for what we might…
A Beginner’s Guide to Meditating
Running late to a doctor’s appointment, argument with your sister, unpaid invoices. Every day we are hit with stressors big and small that can take us down if we’re not…
Can we really have it all?
We as women are always giving up one thing for another. We give up ourselves and our health for our careers and families. We put ourselves last because we’re the giving…
Meryl Streep is the Left’s new hero and the Right’s new enemy
Meryl Streep is my hero at the Golden Globes! No, that’s not a quote from me. And neither is, “Most of the political rhetoric coming from these spoiled, preening and pretentious…
Daring and Disruptive with Lisa Messenger
Not unlike the title of her best-selling novel Daring and Disruptive, Lisa Messenger’s attitude towards life and business has consistently been a challenge of traditional conventions. As the game-changing Chief…