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Emotional Labor, Entrepreneurship, and My Breakdown
My mom was a seamstress while I was growing up. She started working at her sewing machine in the wee hours of the morning, paused to help my brother and me get ready for school, and then welcomed a steady stream of customers into the house for fittings and pickups....
The Game Is Rigged: Rethinking The Creator Economy
Do you remember the internet before influencers? Before teenagers were regularly becoming millionaires on YouTube or TikTok? Before billions of us started sharing our lives online? The opening bit of Iliza Schlessinger's Elder Millennial special on Netflix always...
Beware Goal-Setting’s Compare & Compete Trap
A few years ago, Sean made a rule for me: no calling yourself lazy. It's a good rule—and a rule specifically directed at me. Sean never refers to himself as lazy; he values rest and sustainability far too much to label himself with such a negative term. But me? Well,...
How To Stop Striving And Start Growing
A few years ago, I sat with a group of entrepreneurs in the living room of a cute little condo in Whitefish, Montana. My role was facilitating conversations about their obstacles and opportunities as business owners. It was a group of super successful folks, some on...
The Inertia Of Optimism
Entrepreneurs tend to be optimists. And that optimism inspires persistence and creative thinking—two key traits of success. But entrepreneurial optimism can also lead to sticking with an idea or a venture longer than is beneficial. Every new creative...
How To Find Stability In Life And Business
When Simone Biles pulled out of the Tokyo Olympics, she cited a case of the "twisties." Like most Americans, I had to look that up. Turns out, the "twisties" is the term gymnasts use to describe the feeling of losing the mind-body connection that allows them to...
My Pain In The Butt: Thinking Abundantly About Capacity
I’ve been nursing a nagging pain in my butt for the last year or so. Literally. The tendon at the top of my right hamstring is worn out and inflamed—and it manifests as a giant pain in my butt. I’ve been focused on lower-impact exercise all this year, but it never...
What Would You Make If You Had Everything You Need?
I've been thinking about the nature of scarcity and abundance quite a bit lately. A couple of months ago, I listened to a podcast that suggested we often mistake which side of the equation scarcity is really on. The conversation was about economy-level scarcity, but...
I Quit! How The Ethos Of The Great Resignation Is Fueling The Great Pivot
"This did not feel like real life, exactly, but nowadays what did?" Patricia Lockwood I first saw the Fisher-Price My Home Office playset cross my Twitter feed on Saturday. I thought, surely, this must be a joke! This dystopian image was an attempt at cutting cultural...