Authenticity

Why You Want to Give (and Receive) Brutally Honest Advice

Editor’s Note: This a  joint blog post by Vlad Dolezal and Ali Luke. “Does my butt look big in this?” You rely on your friends for honest advice. Sometimes brutally honest.  You might be willing to show a close friend (or a coach, or a partner) something which is very much a work-in-progress — something which [...]

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Do Your Thing To Rock Your Brand

I was talking to a client last week and heard myself say the very words I needed to hear and apply. It’s amazing how the people you’re meant to help often provide you ways to see and help yourself, too. She’s been trying so hard to control what her brand is that she’s been struggling [...]

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Bewildered And Exploring

I just read Sarah Robinson’s Bewildered and wanted to pick up the conversation here, as well. Here’s a bit of her post for context: Here’s what I see: There are a number of so-called leaders in the internet and social media space who seem to stick with what I can only call a “clique”. They [...]

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Are You Modeling Your Message?

Today’s short video is about modeling your message in your life and business or career.

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This You

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[If you're reading this via email or RSS, you may need to click through to listen to this short recording.] I recorded this last week as I was thinking about the ways we hide ourselves away. I hope you enjoy it. I’ve included the text below in case you want to read it rather [...]

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What’s Your Boomerang?

Think about that thing you keep coming back to, no matter how hard you try to suppress it. It could be writing. It could be painting. It could be coming up with funny one-liners. It could be a particular skill or perspective that we picked up during a formative period of our development that really [...]

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Does It Matter If I Know What I’m Doing?

[If you're reading this via email or RSS, you might need to click through to watch the video.] In this vlog, I raise a counter-intuitive problem: there are cases in which knowing your craft well changes people’s perspectives about what you’re doing. What’s also interesting is that our evaluations change depending on which craft is [...]

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Four Realities Of Being A Big Shot

Editor’s Note: This is a guest post from Marissa Bracke. There is a tipping point between being just another struggling entrepreneur and becoming a Big Shot. Those who do well in the transition tend to keep some grounding in the finite (and often fleeting) nature of being the Big Shot. But we’ve all seen the [...]

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If You Really Want It, It Doesn’t Matter What You Do To It

Editor’s note: This is a guest post by Ken Robert from Mildly Creative. If you really want it, it doesn’t matter what you do to it. It doesn’t matter what you call it: your hobby, your work, your mission, your curse. Those are just words, and words can mean different things to different people and [...]

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