Being a Dork Pays Off

November 18, 2011

Geeks are making a comeback. {I ‘heart’ The Big Bang Theory.} Dorks have changed the face of our world. {Who doesn’t love their iPhone?} I was a dork in high school. {And am finally proud of it.} Because being a dork in school pays off in your 30′s. There are secrets that no one tells [...]

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Help Them Talk About Your Brand

November 16, 2011

Part of personal branding is empowering your current and future consumers to talk about you. To feel like they know you. To recognize your brand, your look and feel, and give the pitch on your behalf to their circle of influence. You want them to love you so much it comes naturally to ooze glowing [...]

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Thank Them

November 14, 2011

How often do you say ‘thank you?’ To the ones that help you do what you do? That listen, buy, and support you? The ones that make it all possible? You know who. Your customers. It’s easy during this list-making, eating binge time of year to get wrapped up in our own holiday celebrations and [...]

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Ridiculous

November 10, 2011

She said it. Over red cups and silver laptops. She spoke the words that most of us are thinking, but wouldn’t dare say. “I have all kinds of thoughts, visions, ideas. But I don’t dare speak them. They’re probably ridiculous!” I grabbed my chest. Her statement was so true for most of us, but at [...]

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You’ve Gotta Define Success

November 7, 2011

It’s a good thing. . .to be a success. But first you have to know what success looks like for you, your business. We no longer live in a place where cookie cutters dictate our future. Regrets aren’t allowed. There’s no reason to have any. Frustrations can only be with ourselves, since no one can [...]

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What’s Your Next Step?

November 3, 2011

When the next step is. . . to do it. Take it. Sometimes there won’t be a plan, a road sign to guide the way. Just a stone in the path that leads to the next. . . step, the next revelation, the next phase of a plan that is unfolding. Don’t listen to the [...]

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How to Develop Your Personal Brand

September 14, 2011

If you came to me asking for help with your brand, here are some of the questions I would ask. Take the time to answer each of these. Your brand will thank you. {So will your consumer.} First, forget about words for a moment, build a pinterest board that visually expresses what you want to [...]

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Are You A Personal Brand?

September 13, 2011

Yes. You have a personal brand. You’ve had it since you started kindergarten. Don’t fight it. You may not be Ralph Lauren, Kate Spade, or Tory Burch, but you do have a name that others recognize. The mention of your name brings certain characteristics to mind, what you’re good at, your style, how you help [...]

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When Your Dream Changes

September 12, 2011

Sometimes your dream doesn’t look like everyone else’s. To start out my oversees journey, I arrived in Houston in the humidity of August to meet up with a group of 22 students that would be my traveling companions for the next semester’s adventure. Just having said goodbye to my parents until December. 21 years of [...]

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Oh The Places I Went with My Dream

September 8, 2011

Oh, the stories I could tell of my European adventures. Like the overnight train from Amsterdam to Copenhagen with the quirky Spaniard. The spray of the Versailles fountains that made me believe I was a lady in waiting in the King’s court. The tears I cried as I stood in amazement beneath the Eiffel Tower. [...]

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