How to Build Your Network

How to Build Your Network

Ask any successful freelancer and they’ll probably tell you that networking has been essential to their career growth. The connections we form both professionally and personally can open doors for us. Here are a few key points to remember when marketing your personal...
Using Conflict to Drive Positive Change

Using Conflict to Drive Positive Change

Conflict is a natural part of life, whether in personal relationships, at work, or even within ourselves. But not all conflicts are created equal. Amanda Ripley, journalist and author of High Conflict: Why We Get Trapped and How We Get Out, distinguishes between two...
Understanding Neurodiversity

Understanding Neurodiversity

Neurodiversity is a term that recognizes and celebrates that there is natural variation in how human brains and minds work, with no single ‘correct’ way. It refers to the idea that neurological differences like autism, ADHD, dyslexia, sensory processing disorders,...
Navigating Life’s Transitions with Strength and Resilience

Navigating Life’s Transitions with Strength and Resilience

Life is full of transitions—some exciting, some difficult, all requiring adjustment. Whether you’re starting a new job, becoming a parent, grieving a loss, or entering a new phase of life, life’s transitions can shake up your routine and challenge your sense of...
Managing and Preventing Burnout

Managing and Preventing Burnout

Burnout has become an epidemic in the modern workplace, leaving employees exhausted, unmotivated, and struggling to cope. The good news? There are ways to manage and prevent burnout. To begin, it helps to take a closer look at this condition and its causes.  What Is...
How Accessible Websites Grow Revenue and Reduce Risk

How Accessible Websites Grow Revenue and Reduce Risk

For solo entrepreneurs and gig workers, a website isn’t just a marketing tool — it’s a front door to customers, partners, and income. Making that front door accessible to people with disabilities is both practical and principled: accessible sites reach a bigger...
Your Business Should Serve Your Life

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

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

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

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...
Business From Home

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

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,...
Individual/Solo Entrepreneurship Can Be an Equalizer

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

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

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...
A Key Reason to Explore Entrepreneurship

A Key Reason to Explore Entrepreneurship

Whenever we experience any form of economic uncertainty, it is natural for workers to become much more sensitive to the relationships between inflation and wages. Workers do not have any control over inflation. The facts are: Most workers, in the traditional workplace...