Mindset
What To Do When Your Friends And Family Don’t "Get It"
You know what I’m talking about. The eyes that kind of gloss over as their mind drifts to their grocery list as soon as you start talking about how many new opt-ins you got today, or how you just can’t seem to get Mailchimp to send to your list properly and should you hire a…
Read MoreAn Interview With Andrea Owen On Writing A Book, Being A Hot Mess, and The Top 3 Things You Need To Do When You’re Starting A Business
I recently joined a Mastermind (can someone please gimme a better word for that, because Mastermind sounds SO fucking pretentious) with 4 amazing other coaches, and one of them (Miss Andrea Owen) wrote a book! So, being the totally biased friend that I am, I wanted to help her promote it, because it’s awesome, and she…
Read MoreWhy Business Is Like An Arranged Marriage
Now, I’ll preface this post by saying that I know NOTHING about being in an arranged marriage. I’m not in one, nor do I actually know anyone personally who is. I guess we could always use the analogy of marrying for money. Something I also don’t know about, but that doesn’t sound half bad (I’M…
Read MoreHow Uncaged Came To Be (And The Power Of Lowering Your Expectations)
BUT BEFORE WE BEGIN… A hilarious photo. This is what happens when you do a photoshoot in a back alley in a city like Toronto. Asian tourists want to get their photos taken with you. Anyway. It was 2011. I was working for an online wellness company that was paying me $12/hour to manage ALL…
Read MoreCopy Me. Go Ahead. Seriously.
I have been waiting for 3 days to write this post. This week, I was semi-accused (twice) of copying someone else in my business, and it left a bad taste in my mouth. And I knew I had to write about it. I knew this was part of a bigger conversation. I usually post on…
Read MoreHow To Get Anything You Want
Once upon a time, there was a little princess who lived far away in a beautiful castle. Ok let’s cut the crap. The girl was me, and I didn’t like in a faraway land. I lived in Ottawa, Ontario, with divorced parents and a really smelly hamster named Nipper (she used to bite me to…
Read MoreHow To Be Successful Without Any Planning
I was thinking the other day about how I got started with all this crazy online business stuff in the first place. How did this happen? Two years ago, I dreamed of the business I have today, but I didn’t have a clue what to do to get here. I was totally and completely in…
Read MoreHow To Bring Your Offline Business Online
Yoga teachers, chiropractors, reiki teachers, osteopaths, personal trainers, and anyone else who runs a business that’s typically hands-on, something you physically have to be IN PERSON to do – this is for you! You’re craving the online business lifestyle, yeah? But you feel totally stuck because your thing has to be done in person, yeah?…
Read MoreNot Everything Is Precious
I asked a question recently in my Uncaged Lifers Facebook group about whether you’d choose perfect fulfilling work, or freedom and lifestyle, if you had to choose. Would you rather have a job that was kind of “meh”, where the work wasn’t particularly fulfilling, if it gave you tons of freedom to work from anywhere with…
Read MoreThe Ups and Downs Of Solopreneurship
Sometimes, I’m convinced that I can take over the world. Other times, I’m not even sure I can help a single person. Once in a while, I wonder how long I can really do this for. Is it sustainable? Will I consistently make a good income, forever? Will I get bored, and want to drop it…
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