LISTEN ON YOUR FAVE PLATFORM NOW: APPLE | SPOTIFY  | GOOGLE | ANCHOR I’m calling this week’s podcast episode my “COVID podcast” because I’m recording it while I have COVID, talking to my girls about their experiences living through quarantine, and having a spicy conversation with my friend Lindsey Chevalier on all things quarantine, COVID, […]

Blog, Business & Entrepreneurship

April 20, 2021

“The COVID Episode”: Trauma, Women’s Equality, Race, and more

LISTEN ON YOUR FAVE PLATFORM NOW: APPLE | SPOTIFY  | GOOGLE | ANCHOR   One of the things I’ve done really well in my career is quit.  Even just saying that feels wrong, like I’m violating some code of business ethics. We all know that to be successful you need to work hard, show up, […]

Blog, Business & Entrepreneurship, Finding Balance, Sales, Self-Care & Skincare

April 13, 2021

When to Quit & When to Stick In Your Career

LISTEN ON YOUR FAVE PLATFORM NOW: APPLE | SPOTIFY  | GOOGLE | ANCHOR   Let’s get right to it! In this podcast episode, I’m finally announcing the creation of my seventh and largest business venture: opening a FACE FOUNDRIÉ franchise with my business partner Casee Hawkins.   Casee and I talked with FACE FOUNDRIÉ founder, […]

Blog, Business & Entrepreneurship, Self-Care & Skincare

March 29, 2021

I’m Finally Announcing my 7th (and largest) Business Venture

LISTEN ON YOUR FAVE PLATFORM NOW: APPLE | SPOTIFY  | GOOGLE | ANCHOR As I’m setting up my 7 and largest business to date, my desire is to bring people along in the process. When I set up my first business in 2008 at 25 years old, I would have loved to have someone to […]

Blog, Business & Entrepreneurship, Habits

March 17, 2021

My #1 Tip for All Entrepreneurs (at any stage of the game)

LISTEN ON YOUR FAVE PLATFORM NOW: APPLE | SPOTIFY  | GOOGLE | ANCHOR How we do anything is how we do everything, right? Therefore, when we work hard (like really hard) we also tend to play equally as hard.  As I head into creating my seventh business, I’m sharing what I’m doing to purposefully slow […]

Blog, Business & Entrepreneurship, Finding Balance, Health

March 5, 2021

Work Hard(ish), Play Hard(ish)

LISTEN ON YOUR FAVE PODCAST PLATFORM NOW: APPLE | SPOTIFY  | GOOGLE | ANCHOR   Whether you’re a mom, a waitress, a marketing exec, an entrepreneur, or a teacher, your success depends on influencing those around you to do something or take action. And the more effective you are in your communications, the better the […]

Blog, Business & Entrepreneurship, Sales

February 22, 2021

My Number #1 Tip For Being Successful in Sales

2020 may as well be renamed “The Anxious Year”. It seems that everywhere you turn, everyone is talking about anxiety and the toll it’s taking. What gives? Where does anxiety come from? Why are so many experiencing anxious symptoms and what can we do to combat anxiety? That’s what I’m diving into today. This has […]

Health, Self-Care & Skincare

December 22, 2020

How To Interrupt The Loop To Combat Anxiety

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I’ve been thinking a lot about grief while working through it myself with the loss of our beloved family dog Kahlo. Her departure leaves a gaping hole in our family. She spent the last 14 years with us, from before John and I were married, up until the completion of our family with Paige in […]

Finding Balance, Self-Care & Skincare

November 24, 2020

This one’s for the grieving: Sitting in our emotions and feeling our way to healing and love

What to do when you find yourself presented with an opportunity you thought you’d flat-out reject but instead you find yourself curious. If you’re here it’s likely because your friend Sam, or your colleague Melissa or your great aunt Sue invited you to take a look at her network marketing business. (groan) It happens to […]

Business & Entrepreneurship

October 29, 2020

Why Our Friends Keep Joining Pyramid Schemes and Why the Channel Itself is Exploding Rather than Self-Imploding

Over the weekend I was listening to a podcast interviewing Marie Forleo about her new book, Everything if Figureoutable. In the interview, Marie talked about perfectionism and what she had to say hit me between the eyes. Prior to Balanced Entrepreneur and everything I’ve worked on with the book, the website, this blog and now the course […]

Blog, Business & Entrepreneurship, Finding Balance

November 5, 2019

The Trap of Perfection