The Boss of You

The delightful Brigitte of Covet Chicago has a really beautiful giveaway up on her site right now (if we do say so ourselves): one lucky winner will receive a signed copy of The Boss of You along with a copy of Danielle Laporte‘s The Firestarter Sessions. Brigitte has done a lovely job of describing why [...]

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We had such a great time at the Conference of Creative Entrepreneurs in Seattle this weekend. It was my first conference with baby in tow, and as a result I wasn’t able to spend as much time hanging around and networking as I might have liked, but it was great to be out and about [...]

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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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Design Sponge has put together a great list of business books for the creatively inclined small business owner/freelancer. And, I’ll be so bold as to say that The Boss of You makes a nice addition to the list — and I’m not the only one, a few people have emailed/pinged me to say the same [...]

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I posted on our Facebook page to see if Boss of You fans had any business questions for us, and we got a great one right off the bat: I read your book (awesome, thank you!) and I ran into the first snag when trying to figure budgets. What i want to do would be [...]

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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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Sweet Seattle, we do love you so. And of all the reasons to love Seattle, our friends Megan Reardon (of Not Martha fame) & Kristen Rask (the creative genius behind Schmancy) are high on the list. They started up the Grassroots Business Association last year, a business group for creative, indie entrepreneurs, and it’s been [...]

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We’re going to Seattle! (Or coming to Seattle, depending on your perspective.) We’re going to be speaking with the fabulous Grassroots Business Association on June 17 at Vermillion (1508 11th Ave, Seattle, WA), on the topic, “Defining Business Success on Your Own Terms.” We hope you (and/or your Seattle-based friends) will join us — please [...]

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Forgive the slight tangent from regular business talk here while I share a truly awesome video with you. As a fellow author and a big ol’fan of Babycakes in NY I could not resist sharing this: BabyCakes, the Book of Recipes: It’s Here! from BabyCakes NYC on Vimeo. How great was that? BabyCakes Book of [...]

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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. [...]

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