On Becoming Unfuckwithable
Unfuckwithable. If you’re contemplating themes for the New Year, I highly recommend borrowing this one. Unfuckwithable. Rolls right off the tongue and deep dives directly into your ovaries. But more...
View ArticleI Hate Monday: Edition #11
Welcome to I Hate Monday, obvoiusly the most productive way to procrastinate until it’s not Monday anymore. This is going to be the best thing you watch today. It’s going to make you tear up. It’s...
View ArticleBetter to Be a Mouse With a Backbone, Than a Lion With No Spine: A Rant On...
You know when you sit down to write and your brain sort of feels kind of…constipated? (A delightful image, if I do say so myself.) Then you finally manage to put a sentence on the screen, but then...
View ArticleI Hate Monday: Edition #12
Welcome to I Hate Monday, obvoiusly the most productive way to procrastinate until it’s not Monday anymore. Know why Danielle Laporte’s been so wildly successful? Because she doesn’t just give you...
View ArticleSometimes in Business, You Need to Do YOU.
The dead horse of the decade is the target customer. You’re asked to create personas. Put yourself in their shoes bras. Get inside their head. Imagine what’s keeping them up at 3 o’clock in the...
View ArticleOn Getting Old, Having No Idea How to Make a Soufflé & Consciously Choosing...
It’s 2:42 in the morning and the reason I’m awake is called CHARDONNAY. People talk about getting old—buying crock pots, nonchalantly cutting your spouse’s armpit hairs, relating more to The Golden...
View ArticleI Hate Monday: Edition #13
Welcome to I Hate Monday, a list of my favorite must-know recommendations, finds and other delightfully unproductive things. Because it is Monday after all. What else would you rather be doing? I’ve...
View ArticleRead This if You’re an Impatient, Demanding, Self-Critical Tart Who Gets Mad...
What gets measured, gets managed has got to be the most annoying piece of business advice ever. (Right next to “create epic content,” “follow your passion,” and “don’t fart too loud when the mic is...
View ArticleHeadspace Is Like a Goddamn Unicorn (+Announcements!)
Headspace. Even though it feels about as mythical as a goddamn unicorn, it’s a thing. I know most of us would feel more comfortable using a keyboard full of hypodermic needles than, you know, actually...
View ArticleNice Brands Finish Last
I take it as an insult when somebody calls me The N Word: Nice. Out of 100,000 adjectives in the English language, if the best you can come up with is nice, then I’m doing something wrong. It’s like...
View ArticleAn Ode to the Internet’s Worst Business Advice
A person, going into business for themselves for the first time: How can I get found? The Internet: Start a newsletter! Person: What, like a weekly bulletin? The Internet: No, like a newsletter....
View ArticleWhen New Opportunities Show Up, Waving Their Ta Ta’s
There’s a lot of…pressure these days. Post to Twitter! And Facebook! And Instagram! And Vine! And Pinterest! And AREN’T YOU PERISCOPING YET, YOU CURMUDGEON? Speaking of self-important broadcasts, have...
View ArticleI Hate Monday: Edition #2
Welcome to I Hate Monday, the most productive way for small business owners & bloggers to procrastinate until it’s not Monday anymore. 1. THERE IS A BOB ROSS PAINTING MARATHON HAPPENING ON TWITCH....
View ArticleDo You Suck at Oral? A (Tongue-In-Cheek) Discussion on Why It’s Hard to Ask...
My first sales call was the most disgusting thing I’d ever done. I mean, I don’t even like talking on the phone with people I know, let alone people I don’t. My love for the phone ended after the 7th...
View ArticleYour Hatred is Wisdom
What is it? The thing you sighed with relief about this morning? The thing you didn’t have to do on a Saturday? The thing you exhaled about? (And maybe even shimmied around the room naked over. With...
View ArticleI Hate Monday: Edition #3
Welcome to I Hate Monday, the most productive way for small business owners & bloggers to procrastinate until it’s not Monday anymore. By FAR this is my favorite thing on this list today: A video...
View Article“How do I raise my rates without making it awkward?”
Well isn’t this the motherloving question of the year. It gets asked a lot sometime between the stages of that time you started your business and worked for peanuts because you were feeling wildly...
View ArticleI Hate Monday: Edition #4
Following the events of this past weekend, there’s a lot to be contemplative about today. More than anything, we should be spending time considering the recent acts in Paris, keeping up with the news...
View ArticleWhat if My Customers Aren’t All the Same? How Do I Appeal to Multiple...
SELLING YOUR STUFF TO OTHER HUMANS IS HARD. (Caps required.) It’s hard for a number of reasons, but one of the biggest reasons is because nobody really knows what to say. We’re all filled with a...
View ArticleI Hate Monday: Edition #5
Welcome to I Hate Monday, the most productive way for small business owners & bloggers to procrastinate until it’s not Monday anymore. “I won’t give you the gift of hating you.” A man pens a...
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