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Your Business Should Serve Your Life
You became an entrepreneur for a reason — freedom, focus, and a life of deep satisfaction. You were created for a full, vibrant life. There’s a deep wisdom in you, always guiding you toward your true desires — meant to be expressed and lived. Thriving isn’t about...
Simple Financial Tips for Gen Z Navigating the Gig Economy
The gig economy is no longer an outlier. For many people in Generation Z, it is becoming the norm. A 2023 World Bank report estimated that there were as many as 435 million gig workers around the world, representing as much as 12.5% of the global labor force. By 2027,...
Understanding People/Building Customers
People are not one dimensional in their thinking about who they are and what matters most. People will determine their priorities by how they perceive “what matters most” at the particular moment in time when they are asked to examine priorities or offered...
5 Insights To Support Growth
Motivation Follows Action, Not the Other Way Around For a long time, we believed dopamine—the brain's "feel-good" chemical—was a reward we got after completing a task . But recent groundbreaking research flipped the script. Dopamine spikes before we take action, not...
August 2025 Newsletter
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Business From Home
A huge percentage of the workforce has chosen to work from home. Work can be accomplished from anywhere, even the beach or park bench. With the popularity of online shopping, the prevalence of social media use, the implementation of 5G networks, and the increasingly...
The Long Tail of U.S. Businesses
This article provides insights derived from Chris Anderson’s very popular book, The Long Tail. Applying The Long Tail concept to U.S. businesses, the “tail” represents millions of small actors - the 1099 independent contractors, contingent workers, micro-businesses,...
Individual/Solo Entrepreneurship Can Be an Equalizer
There is a strong and growing trend toward an interest in income opportunities that are designed around two basic attributes: Easy to understand and do. Flexibility and freedom in how the work can be accomplished. The incredible growth of the gig economy is proof of...
Growth: The Most Important Key Performance Indicator
The desire to grow is inherently within most of us. Most kids want to grow. Students typically want to grow and learn. Most adults want to learn more and experience more. As we take on various responsibilities in life and career, we learn to set goals and support them...
Financial Literacy Made Simple
Suzie Orman is recognized as an authority on all things financial for a simple reason: She always makes it simple! Anyone who has ever experienced the opportunity to listen to Suzie in a live lecture will probably attest to the effectiveness of her coaching and the...