The Boss of You

In our book, we talk a lot about cre­at­ing your own def­i­n­i­tion of suc­cess. As an entre­pre­neur, it’s cru­cial to under­stand your own moti­va­tions and have a clear idea of what suc­cess looks like for you — oth­er­wise it’s not likely you’ll end up achiev­ing it. Any­way, I was tick­led this morn­ing when I received […]

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Michelle Good­man rec­om­mended On My Own Two Feet: A Mod­ern Girl’s Guide to Per­sonal Finance a few months ago over at her site and I made a note to review it for the resource sec­tion of our book. I found the time to read a copy a few weeks back and have been mean­ing to […]

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We’re in the final stretch of our book edits, and one of the many items on this month’s to-do list was to fin­ish off our resource guide. Typ­i­cally we would do most of research for addi­tional resources online and at our beloved local library, but there’s a munic­i­pal strike in Van­cou­ver this sum­mer which has […]

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Grace at Design*Sponge is look­ing to take her suc­cess­ful Biz Lady Nights on the road. If you’re inter­ested, go vote for your city. Details:
Start­ing this fall i’m going to take the d*s biz lady nights national. the goal is to travel to five major cities this fall, win­ter and spring and host a meet up […]

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I’m one of those for­tu­nate (or per­haps fool­hardy) folks who has never expe­ri­enced the sheer ter­ror many peo­ple asso­ciate with pub­lic speak­ing. I attribute that lack of fear to my father’s voca­tion — he was a min­is­ter in the United Church of Canada, and so pub­lic speak­ing was an inte­gral part of his job. Not […]

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Through the Writer’s Revealed live chat this week­end (and by the way, it sadly looks like my “pearls of wis­dom” have been lost to the inter­nets) I had the chance to come across Lorissa’s blog, Lorissa is a boss lady in her own right, and has some great thoughts on work scat­tered through­out her site.
She […]

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