It was standing room only. Business owners packed into a room to talk about something most of us avoid like the plague: ourselves. Not our services.Not our logos.Not our team’s credentials or the client list we’re proud of. Us. Because here’s the truth: people don’t buy from logos—they buy from people. And if you’re not […]
Imposter syndrome won this past weekend. I think I spent most of Sunday staring at a wall, contemplating all of my failures. What a great time. Highly recommend spending your day like this. I don’t typically sit around and feel sorry for myself, but these past two years have been absolutely brutal. It caught up […]
For years, I saw my gender as a weakness. Working in manufacturing and medical devices industries dominated by men with egos the size of Texas—I did everything I could to blend in. I ignored or laughed at inappropriate jokes, went to the strip club (that’s a story I’ll tell over iced red wine), and pretended […]
Travel is stressful enough without dealing with complete and utter...people who apparently forgot how to act in public the second they stepped into an airport.
Look, I travel a lot. Like, a LOT lot. And after years of trial and error (and some spectacularly bad packing decisions), I’ve got my travel game semi-down. Some of my most recent travels had me scratching my head at other travelers, so I turned to the women who know best: my friends. These women […]
“What on earth are you watching?” I ask Josh as I crawl onto the bed in our motorhome (in our driveway) and lie down next to Frank*, the office dog (picture below). *We brought Frank to our house for the weekend so he could run around the yard and sleep in a real bed. Josh […]
You know how people say “life is short,” all the time? Well, it really hit me this week. A person I had a massive amount of respect for, passed this past year. I’ve witnessed some incredibly strong women break down, pick each other up, rally, and move sh*t forward amidst overwhelming grief. It’s been pretty […]
The Great Resignation, Great Exhaustion, and Quiet Quitting – what does it mean to small businesses?
The holidays, am I right? What a shitshow. I like to give so much I have nothing left, then I’m resentful and bitter. Good times. I should point out it isn’t just the holidays. We, women, do this 24/7. Women often bear the emotional, physical, and mental burden of holidays, birthdays, vacations, anniversaries, and home […]
Perhaps by calling it Sharkie Poo, it was a bit of a self-fulfilling prophecy. All seven dogs have a nickname – Millie is Millie Vanilli, Noodle, Silly Millie…I’ll spare you the rest; you get the drift. It only felt fair and proper to give the Shark Robot a similar name; after all, he is now […]
