Is Fear of the Unknown Blocking Your Dream?
Fear of the unknown is a waste of energy, much less time and money. Maybe you’re reading this from your comfy perch as a corporate executive, but sense something is…well, missing. Your [...]
In Balance & Priorities, Business Model, Career Advice, Planning, Starting My Business, Success Stories
Posted What’s the Difference Between Starting a Business vs. Creating a Job for Yourself?
There are important differences between starting a business and creating your own job. It isn’t about taxes or your “corporate structure.” It isn’t about whether you offer a product or a service [...]
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What’s Your Story, and Why Your Business Model Matters
Your story for your business is critical to your success. Perhaps you’ve heard that “story” is crucial to your marketing – and that is true! But “story” is not [...]
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So You Want to Start Your Own Business
So, you want to start your own business? Thinking about quitting your job to become your own boss? Women are leaving Corporate America to start a business at ever-increasing rates, unlike our [...]
Making the Leap from Executive to Entrepreneur
Are you thinking about making the leap from executive to entrepreneur? Many female executives are working in jobs to build someone else’s dream. It may mitigate the risks you face, but [...]
How to Leave Your Job to Build a Business
Do you dream of creating a change with a product or service that you create and sell? If your current job is not providing the satisfaction or fulfillment you want from your life’s work, [...]
In Balance & Priorities, Career Advice, Entrepreneurship, Inspiration & Motivation, Starting My Business, Success Stories
Posted Why Do Women Start Businesses?
Why do women start businesses? Because we can. OK, that’s kind of a snarky response, however true. The rate at which women start businesses is dramatically greater than our male [...]
Thinking about Leaving Your Corporate Gig? How to Identify the Right Business for YOU.
Entrepreneurship is not about limiting yourself – quite the opposite, in fact. Being an entrepreneur means being open to all sorts of ideas. Before that, you need to be willing to explore inside [...]
3 Keys to Leaving Corporate America
It didn’t take the first time I tried. Not really. After 20 years as a Fortune 500 executive and being “the first woman everything,” I achieved all that I set out to in my career. Yet I wasn’t [...]