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Entries from February 2009

What Michael Gerber told me about leaving a corporate job

February 26th, 2009 · No Comments

As surreal as it feels at times I am in the middle of a six-week telesummit of my own creation and am having fabulous, inspiring conversations with very successful “corporate fugitives” as part of the Entrepreneurs Unplugged Telesummit I am producing with my friend Marcia Hoeck.
Our friendship, and this joint venture, developed quickly - which [...]

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Tags: Becoming a solo-preneur · Entrepreneurs Unplugged · Fellow fugitives · Working at home

A cowgirl’s guide to business

February 11th, 2009 · No Comments

I’ll let you in on a little secret love of mine - western movies - the more cowboys, tumbleweeds and horses, the better.
So the other night for some hard-earned R&R I finally watched the movie Appaloosa. In the opening scene, Everett Hitch (Viggo Mortensen) tells the story of how he left a second-generation career as a [...]

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Tags: Becoming a solo-preneur · Fellow fugitives

Taking leaps

February 4th, 2009 · No Comments

Many entrepreneurs (and aspiring entrepreneurs) think they have to know exactly what they’re doing, and how to do it, before they start. They also tend to think and dream on a much smaller scale, in part due to that reason.
In 2008 I made it a point to uplevel my thinking — and the results of [...]

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Tags: Becoming a solo-preneur · Bright shiny objects · Building a virtual team · Investing in yourself · Marketing yourself · Uncategorized