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How Your Personal Priorities Shape The Way You Design Your Business
Our feeds are full of people trying to sell us goals. More money. Passive income. Working far fewer hours. Building a community. Working 1-to-many....
Manage Others The Way You’d Want To Be Managed—And More Lessons For Working With Others
I've heard a lot of horror stories about working with people over the last 12 years. Stories about virtual assistants. Stories about web designers....
Why It Takes So Long For People To Buy (And What You Can Do To Speed It Up Without Being Gross)
I often hear from business owners that their customers are on their email lists or following their social media accounts for years before...
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READ: 3 Books for Remembering You Have a Body
“You have a body.” That’s the first principle of feminist business-building according to Jennifer Armbrust, founder of Sister and creator of the Feminist Business School. It might seem a strange way to begin a manifesto about business, but remembering that we’re human...
What Does Power Sound Like?
In fourth grade, I auditioned for my elementary school chorus. I love to sing—but it’s not, let’s say, one of my more celebrated talents. So I’m standing next to an upright piano in our school auditorium-slash-gym-slash-cafeteria and singing along to my music teacher...
Listen: A Podcast About How Podcasts Make Big Money
The business of how podcasts make money is relatively opaque. Lots of podcasts never make a dime. Plenty support marketing efforts at small businesses and large corporations. Still others maintain complete editorial independence by utilizing crowdfunding. And that...
How Influencers Change the Way We See Ourselves
How do influencers impact the way we see ourselves, our families, and… our shopping lists?
What’s Your Type? Why Self-Knowledge is Big Business on Social Media
Two types of content dominate my Instagram and TikTok feeds right now. The first is users talking about different personality and developmental conditions. The second is all about personality types and astrology signs. I’m sure some of the prevalence of this content...
Who Do You Trust With Your Business or Career?
Distrust is society’s default emotion. That’s according to the 2022 Edelman Trust Barometer survey. It found that 6 out of 10 people report that their default tendency is to approach new information with distrust until there is clear evidence of its trustworthiness....
“She Looks Like an Instagram:” How Empowerment Became A Brand
I’ve always loved makeup. I’ve gone through many phases with makeup over the years—and I’m sure there are many more to come! Over the last few years, though, my makeup routine has involved wearing less. Most days, I wear a tinted moisturizer, bronzer, eyebrow...
How Advice Culture Turns Us Into Winners (And Losers)
Do you know Dr. Rick? Dr. Rick was one of the only good things that came out of 2020. He’s a "parenta-life coach"—he helps young homeowners avoid turning into their parents. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rcw6uS-gsqk Dr. Rick is an invention of Progressive, the...
Why Entrepreneurs & Freelancers Should Consider Quiet Quitting, Too
You've probably seen the headlines. If you haven't, here's what's up: the youngsters are talking about quiet quitting. Essentially, quiet quitting is no longer going above and beyond at one's job. Instead of working beyond the job description (or...