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Why 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…

Obsessed With Having A ‘Fun’ Job Title? Don’t Make This Mistake.

Attention all service based business owners (especially anyone in the realm of “life coaching”) PICTURE THIS: You’re hanging out at a dinner party and the douchy guy next to you (who has been trying to hit on you the entire night) finally takes a breath after talking about himself for 3 hours straight, and…

How 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…

Copy 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…

How 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…

How 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…

How 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?…

Not 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…

The 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…

Don’t Change Yourself, Change Your Business

I used to be a nutritionist. Sort of. I spent 2 years in nutrition school, learning how to clean up a messy gut with with an advanced supplement regime, how to prevent my goddamn adult acne by eliminating gluten from my diet, and writing lengthy protocols that would cure everything from candida to cancer. I…