This is a post from Jenn Lee, a right-brain hero of mine and author of The Right-Brain Business Plan, which is my most-used, most-recommended business building tool for us creatives, hand-down. She wrote this sweet post to tell ya all about her 2nd Right-Brainers in Business Video Summit, which is totally free and which’ll be totally amazeballs, just like last year. But I don’t need to tell ya – see/read it for yo’self!

If you are a right-brain entrepreneur, you might feel totally connected to your creative gifts but still struggle with the nuts and bolts of business. The traditional way of doing business doesn’t work for us creative folk but we still need to do what we can to take our business seriously. The good news is you have permission to approach building your business using your right-brain gifts. You can take your business seriously while still having loads of fun!

Speaking of fun…. last year I had the absolute pleasure of featuring the wonderful Michelle Ward at my inaugural Right-Brainers in Business Video Summit. I just love this woman and think she’s so freakin’ inspiring (I’m sure you do, too!!).

I thought it’d be a blast to share with you an encore of her delightful Right-Brain Business Plan® Show and Tell Spotlight from our 2011 event. It’s amazing to see all that she’s accomplished since doing her RBBP and since last year’s summit! Read the rest of this entry »

Wanna quit yer job, but don’t wanna wind up living in your parent’s basement eating Ramen noodles? Well, that doesn’t have to be mutually exclusive!

In this 90 minute virtual workshop (that means you can join us from wherever you be as long as you have a computer and a phone line!), you’ll find out how I created a big, fat, sturdy safety net so that I could leave my corporate job in Mar 2010 and make “the leap” to full-time coach – and what I’d do differently if I had to do it again!  You’ll also leave with the framework of your big, fat, sturdy safety net (not yo’ Mama’s or yo’ partner’s!); potential Plan Bs that won’t leave you beaten down without a soul; and your Breathe Easy number that’ll give you enough of a financial cushion to make you, um, breathe easy but not have to wait until 2020 to break free of those golden handcuffs.

Only 50 45 40 39 spots left! I’m not planning on offering this again, so head on over and join us for An Effective Escape: Leaving Your Day Job Without Living In Your Parents Basement!

A few months ago, I got interviewed for Yes and Yes’ True Story series. While the title’s a wee melodramatic, it’s absolutely the truth. And while you might’ve heard My Story before, Sarah asked me some Barbara Walters-like questions, like how I dealt with other (less talented!) people being cast in parts I auditioned for, if there was something specific that made me throw in the towel, and if I was ever close to “making it.” You can read it all here.

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I’ve been an interviewing machine lately! I was the first profile in BrandKit’s Classy Entrepreneur Series (I tricked ‘em good!) and loved talking about my goals and life lessons and favorite resources. Then, because of an interview I gave with Margarita Tartakovsky, I was featured in two articles on PsychCentral: Career Coaching 101: How to Find a Professional to Help You Find Your Fulfilling Career and How to Find a Fulfilling Career Path. I’m so pleased with how they all came out, and hope they’re helpful for ya. Enjoy, and have the most wonderful of weekends! Read the rest of this entry »

When there’s yin, there’s yang. When there’s black, there’s white. When there’s low Clubhouse numbers, there’s…a book deal!

Back in the fall, Jessica Swift was approached by Tonia, an Acquisitions Manager at North Light Craft Books (they published Kelly Rae Roberts!), asking if she’d be interested in writing a book for them. She responded, “Why yes, yes I would. Also, I have already kinda wrote one with my friend Michelle. Here it is, in case it interests you.” (Ain’t she sweet?!)

To back it up, a few months prior, we got an email sent to us straight from our Contact page, asking if we’d wanna make The Declaration of You into “a book-book”. After a round of “Duh please!”, that publisher (different from this one) pitched us to her boss. We’re not sure exactly what he said, but it prompted her to give us this feedback:

“My publisher felt you might want to consider approaching young adult houses. I’m not sure if that fits with your goals, but for what it’s worth, that’s an idea.” Read the rest of this entry »

Geez Louise Louise, I can’t believe I waited ’til the very last day to tell you guys about the new round of How to Build a Blog You Truly Love, a butt-and-blog-kicking e-course headed by the amazeballs Liv Lane. In 6 weeks, you’ll get advice/wisdom/tidbits from 20 contributors like SARK, Christine Kane, Jess Swift, Kelly Rae Roberts, Amanda Oaks, Aimee Dolich, Alexandra Franzen and lil’ ole me.

Cutting to the chase: 6 weeks. A 300 page PDF of the class content. A personalized blogging blueprint. Your blog’s purpose. A community of other creative (wannabe) bloggers. Audio. Video. Exercises. Essentially: crazy-good stuff.

So if you have a lil’ baby blogging seed in the back of your mind that you’ve been scared to act on, or if you have a living-breathing blog that’s collecting some interweb dust, or if you wanna take your active blog and give it a shot in wherever your computer’s arm is….then click here to check out How to Build a Blog You Truly Love.

(Links here are affiliate links, but seriously, have you known me to partake in something or hooplah something up just to have it be a big stinkball? No. No, you haven’t. I promise all sorts of goodness here and with everything else I give my time/effort/attention to. Pinky swear promise. That’s the serious kind.) Read the rest of this entry »

Tomorrow is my 34th birthday. Presents! and a Party (or something that my man is planning just for me)! and a Kindle Fire (riiiiiiiiiight babe?!)! I love being The Birthday Princess, and I wanted to wave my wand and send you all some birthday love. I’ll be waving it tomorrow in the form of a discount code for one of my products – saving ya almost 50%! – but only if you’re on my newsletter list. It won’t be tweeted, or Facebooked, or blogged, or put on my website…the only way to get some love from The Birthday Princess is to be on the list and check your email at tomorrow morning after 10a Eastern. The birthday sale is only going on for 34 hours, because this wand is made of diamonds (obviously) and I get tired waving it around for that long.

Enjoy my birthday weekend, you guys!
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Wanna gimme an amazeballs birthday present? Sponsor my Avon Walk – even $5 helps!

You guuuuuys! So much stuff happened while I was on my break – and so much stuff just happened/is about to happen – that I have to give ya all the info in one juicy post. Get your mouse ready to click away!

My Mom’s friend’s daughter (who I never met), doodled a series of notecards inspired by me (!!), & is gonna give 100% of the proceeds to boob cancer!(!!!)! So, so, so, so (so!) touched/thrilled/appreciative by/for/of Alex and the good that’s coming out of all this stupidness. Please head over to her Etsy shop to get your set of (5) 5.5″ x 4.25″ fold over note cards with envelopes featuring different freehand illustrations with hidden words: hope, courage, faith, strength (that’s the one above! See it?), and tenacity. They each have 3  swarovski crystals for extra bling, because you know there can never be enough bling.

I spent mucho time answering questions for Stephanie Levy’s Creative Courage, an international e-course about finding, following, and realizing your creative dreams. As 1 of 12 expert guests giving exclusive interviews, everyone in the course will  get tips and advice on how to move more quickly in the direction of our goals. These ladies are top-notch (Andrea Scher! Mati Rose McDonough! Jennifer Louden! Kate Swoboda! etc!) and I know we’ll all be bringing our personal stories on how we found – and are continuing to find! – our creative dreams.  You can register here for the next e-couse, which runs from Jan 9th-Feb 24th. Funness! Read the rest of this entry »