Imposter Syndrome is Robbing the F*ck Out of Us All
The other day I was with a stone mason—UM, HIS HANDS ARE HUGE—chatting about business. Stone mason: This one guy doesn’t even get out of his truck for less than $1500 a day.Me: So, why don’t you do...
View ArticleClient Weird About Your Contract? Say This and They’ll Happily Sign (While...
So you know how you get that client and literally feels like you’re prancing through a field of daffodils that have been sprayed with CK One from the year 1998? (This might sound horrifying unless you...
View ArticleThis Couple Needed to Turn Their Blog Into a Business: Here’s How I’d Turn...
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View ArticleThe New Salary is Here: Soon, Digital Nomads Will Out-Earn the Average...
Summer meadows.Queen Anne’s lace. Picnic blankets made of blue and white gingham. A laughing four-year-old boy (so long as the fucker is laughing). A skinny footpath leading down to the ocean. Cherry...
View ArticleThe Cost of Not Traveling: Featuring Mexico City, Eyeball Tacos, and “Travel...
The other day, someone said to me, “To be frank, I can’t believe you’ve never been to Mexico City” to which I naturally replied, ”To be frank, I hope you have nightmares about teeny tiny Chihuahua...
View ArticleThis Etiquette Consultant Needed a New About Page: Here’s How I’d Make People...
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View ArticleHow to Do Email Marketing Without a Scuzz Hangover: Modern Ideas for...
I remember my exact thought the first time I ever saw a sales letter: What a crock. I was working with an old-school marketing consultant who was brought on board to work with me on a long-term...
View ArticleThe Romantic, Creative Spirit of Lisbon, Portugal—And Why This T-Rex-Hearted...
Is everyone you know talking about Portugal right now—or just me? Because I should warn you: this is the kind of place that causes divorce. (Because you definitely ain't coming back.) Provence is that...
View ArticleThis Irish Tour Company Needed to Differentiate Themselves: Here’s How I’d Go...
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View ArticleThe Real Key to Earning $250,000/Year as a Creator (And Why More People Aren’t)
I’m convinced of two things in this life: I will someday be a sheep farmer in Scotland.Just because something is popular, doesn’t mean it’s good: it just means it’s popular. What am I referring to,...
View ArticleThe Whole Wide World Isn’t Big Enough for You, Darling
Have you ever felt like the whole wide world would never be big enough for you? You’re so hungry for it, you eat up every square inch you can find: streets, monuments, wine bars, neighborhoods. The...
View ArticleThis Tattoo Artist Needed Less Overwhelm, More Money: Here’s How I’d Grow the...
HEY, KITTY CAT—and welcome to Middle Finger Fridays! I’m featuring a new creator every Friday who’s out there SMOKIN’ it—and highlighting what I think they’re doing really, really right—as well as one...
View ArticleClient Weird About Your Contract? Say This and They’ll Happily Sign (While...
So you know how you get that client and literally feels like you’re prancing through a field of daffodils that have been sprayed with CK One from the year 1998? (This might sound horrifying unless you...
View ArticleThis London Tour Guide Needed to Scale Her Biz: Here’s How I’d Add $250K to...
HEY, KITTY CAT—and welcome to Middle Finger Fridays! I’m featuring a new creator every Friday who’s out there SMOKIN’ it—and highlighting what I think they’re doing really, really right—as well as one...
View Article“F*ck Doing It All”: How Sharp-Toothed Maverick Grit Can Sell Your Products...
When the lottery wants to boost ticket sales, they don’t raise the odds. They raise the jackpot. Why? Because people don’t buy odds, they buy dreams. HERE’S A LIST OF THINGS THAT PEOPLE DON’T WANT:...
View ArticleListen: Do What You Crave Without the Guilt. Travel to Italy. Enroll in That...
My almost-mother-in-law gets really fucking nervous when I travel—especially when I bomb off to South America for a month by myself to drink ALL THE WINE and celebrate ALL THE BOOK DEALS. But she...
View ArticleBake a Cake and Shut Your Mouth: Or, How to Be Unhappy, Unfulfilled, and a...
I am a fickle bitch, and it's one of my greatest qualities. In fact, I wish the word “fickle” were more attractive—it sounds too much like “pickle,” and one time in college I read a book called...
View ArticleEducation & Wage Slavery: Hand In Hand?
Ed-u-ca-tion. Ah, the sound of the word alone evokes feelings of hope, prosperity, success and—what's that?—money, you say? Ah, yes. And money. We grow up believing that education can defeat all...
View ArticleWriting, Houses & Hot Dogs: A Love Story
There were greasy hot dogs on the counter. Four of them. Naked and un-bunned, flopping around inside a glass Tupperware dish for all the world to see. I had many questions, including “are these for...
View ArticleOn Not Thinking With Your Cultural Crotch
I fantasize about pugs. Not the way other people fantasize about pugs, mind you—nuzzling them and squeezing them and squealing “oooohhhhhhh!!!!” before scooping them up in their arms for a welcoming,...
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