The Boss of You

I hate to start off blog posts with excuses, but this one really needs a little ‘splaining as it were. I contacted Jeannette Ordas, a local Vancouver designer/blogger/all-round-crafty-gal back in early July with this idea that I would run a local summer series of profiles of some of my local indie business heroines. Then my […]

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I fell head over heels in love with Becky’s (aka Tortilla Girl) designs when I came across them on one of those happenstance web searches. At the time I was actually looking for a bag for personal use and came across this beauty, but then quickly became entranced by her clothing line. In particular her […]

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One of the things that has kept Lauren and I go through the book dreaming/writing/promotion process is the amazing, smart and savvy business gals we get to meet and learn about. It was, after all, the seemingly endless world wicked smart business women who inspired us to first write The Boss of You. I’ve always […]

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We’ve received some great press for The Boss of You lately, and I want to share a few highlights. But before we get to that, let’s take a quick swerve back in time… Some of you may remember that back in May we got a chance to meet four-time world champion figure skater Kurt Browning […]

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We’ve been wanting for a while now to carve out some time to profile the marvelous women whose wisdom graces the pages of The Boss of You. We interviewed eighteen entrepreneurs whose businesses inspired — and continue to inspire — us, and who had taken the road less traveled in the business world, carving out […]

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This profile, of one of my absolute favourite local clothing designers, kicks off our Boss Lady Profiles section (in truth we profiled a few gals eons ago, but given the long period of dormancy it seems hardly fair to count those). Eventually we’ll branch out, but for starters we’ll be profiling some of the truly […]

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Before we jump into a profile of Lunapads, I would like to take a moment for some full disclosure. One of the things we are most excited about with this whole project (the website and book) is the opportunity to meet other business women, this profile however is of some very dear friends. In fact, […]

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