The Boss of You

Hello, friends. What’s new? You may have noticed we’ve been a little, um, absent lately. It’s been about six weeks since we last blogged here, but we haven’t been slacking, no ma’am. Here’s what’s up: We’re blogging weekly for BC Business magazine, for one thing – recent topics include getting over your fear of firing, [...]

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I’m not sure how many web developers read this blog, but if any of you lovely people know a kick-ass coder who wants to work in a small Vancouver studio with amazing clients, please point them to Raised Eyebrow’s latest job opening, OK? Here’s a bit more info from the Raised Eyebrow blog: We’re excited [...]

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A funny thing about being an author is that although you get to take most of the credit for your book, the fact is there’s a huge network of people and organizations involved in getting your book into readers’ hands: From your agent and your publisher to bookstores and libraries, bloggers and reviewers, the web [...]

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As Lauren mentioned, I started Maternity leave the beginning of February, and on February 9th at 9:56am my daughter Lena was born. She’s six weeks old today and I’m sitting here marveling at how fast the time is going while I get my first uninterrupted visit at the computer (with baby monitor at my side) [...]

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I recently had the great pleasure of meeting Natalie Sisson, a Vancouver-by-way-of-New-Zealand (and very well-traveled) entrepreneur whose intelligence and energy are inspiring. She maintains a blog called WomanzWorld, where she posts video & written interviews with women entrepreneurs, along with resources and advice. I highly recommend you check it out. Natalie was sweet enough to [...]

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When my business partner Emira announced that she was expecting a baby, my delight at her good news was accompanied by a creeping feeling of dread about taking on some of her key responsibilities at work while she went on maternity leave. See, we’d always divided the workload between us so that while I handled [...]

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Oh my goodness. Where to begin? We’re only a month into 2010, and already it’s a doozy. Emira’s started maternity leave (more on that soon); we just hired a new employee; and we’re in a bit of a tug-of-war on a business matter that I don’t really think I should talk about here, but will [...]

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Nearly 10 years in, I still get asked all the time how we came up with the name Raised Eyebrow Web Studio. Maybe people are just being polite to me at networking-type events, but I always take it as a good sign that it’s an interesting enough name that they want to ask about it. [...]

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I hope it will come as no surprise when I say that we don’t always live up to the standards we put forth in our book. We’re human, after all, and although we believe passionately in creating and celebrating new models for success, not every day at Raised Eyebrow is a banner Boss of You [...]

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Yesterday I received a very topical and timely email in my inbox from one of my favourite email newsletters, YoyoBelly. The email, which you can read here, was all about Employment Insurance in Canada for gals taking time off to have a baby and for those of you working in Canada and planning for a [...]

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