The Boss of You

So, I’ve been kinda quiet around here of late. My schedule got full and writing blog posts kept falling to the bottom of my to-do list — not because I don’t love writing, or because I don’t have a ton of ideas, but because it got to that point where it just felt like one [...]

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Ever have one of those moments when you come across something incredibly cool, and your initial reaction — delight — is followed swiftly by self-recrimination of the “Damn! I wish I’d made that” variety? That’s how I felt when I found FreelanceSwitch’s Guide to Making Passive Income. It’s a smart, pithy guidebook, available online in [...]

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The oh-so smart and savvy team behind local Vancouver newsletters yoyomama and yoyobelly, for mom’s and mom’s to be respectively, have just launched their own blog at Yoyo Diaries. I have a pretty strong hunch that the BizTips category is definitely one to watch for working and entrepreneurial moms. How do I know this? It [...]

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We often receive press releases about grant and prize opportunities for entrepreneurs, but this past week I got word about one that fits so closely with our values that I’m very excited to share it with you.
Eileen Fisher, a clothing company that puts environmental and social consciousness at the forefront of its business principles (yay!) [...]

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I’m very excited to announce that Emira & I are going to be guest-blogging over at one of our favourite blogs, design*sponge; as I hinted not-so-subtly a couple of weeks ago, we’ll be contributing to Grace’s new Biz Ladies section, which focuses on nurturing local communities of women running their own art and design-based businesses.
Those [...]

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There are so many awesome Seattle events happening all the time… sadly we have only so much time to spend driving back and forth and playing “spot the crazy patriotic bumper sticker” in the border lineups. (The Washington state highway signs exert a strong pull on me, though. My favourite reads, “LITTER AND IT WILL [...]

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Design blogger extraordinaire Grace Bonney (whom we had the great pleasure of interviewing for our book) has been a great champion of women entrepreneurs, particularly those in the design field. She’s been organizing Biz Ladies events for the past couple of years, and they’ve been highly successful and popular.
We’re very excited to note that although [...]

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Our friend and admired colleague, Michelle Goodman, graciously took the time to do a Q&A with us. Her new book, My So-Called Freelance Life: How to Survive and Thrive as a Creative Professional for Hire, is chock-full of great advice for entrepreneurs of all stripes, whether you fall into the “freelancer” category or not.
Bonus: Amazon.com [...]

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Something very exciting happened last week: I got my new iMac set up at work. And the heavens opened, the angels sang, the earth shook a little (gently)… then I got straight back to work, because let’s face it, things are busy.
This wouldn’t be such a big deal, I guess, except that until recently Raised [...]

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When we were in Seattle for The Lab at Velocity Design back in July, we had the great pleasure of meeting the fabulous Kristen Rask of Schmancy Toys, who is just as cool as you would expect her to be. Turns out Kristen has joined forces with four other Seattle biz ladies who are starting [...]

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