The Boss of You

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 spread […]

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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 Recipes comes out […]

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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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This morn­ing, our next-door neigh­bours — they’re a lit­tle more con­ser­v­a­tive than us, yes, but we get along pretty well — are swear­ing in their country’s first African-American (well, every­one keeps call­ing him that, although his slip­per­i­ness with regard to racial cat­e­go­riza­tion is part of what allows us all to iden­tify with him) pres­i­dent, and […]

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The Grass­roots Busi­ness Asso­ci­a­tion is the project of a bunch of super awe­some Seattle-based small busi­ness folks (includ­ing our pals Megan and Kris­ten) who are cre­at­ing an asso­ci­a­tion for small busi­ness own­ers (and the aspir­ing or busi­ness curi­ous). They’re hav­ing their first class is tomor­row night (Decem­ber 4th) in Seat­tle and if you’re run­ning a […]

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A friend sent me a link to Sum­mer Pierre’s awe­some video announce­ment of her good news, and it reminded me…
It was Thanks­giv­ing up here in Canada a week or so ago, and I had meant to post some­thing here about grat­i­tude. I’ve been pro­cras­ti­nat­ing because things are very, very busy at our happy lit­tle web […]

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Just a reminder that tomor­row — Fri­day, Sep­tem­ber 19 — Emira and I will be at Chap­ters Books on Rob­son Street, here in Van­cou­ver, sign­ing copies of The Boss of You. Do stop by and say hello; for those of you in the Van­cou­ver area, we’ve sched­uled it at lunchtime in the hope you can […]

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Just a quick note: We have had to resched­ule our Chap­ters book sign­ing to Fri­day, Sep­tem­ber 19th. (It was pre­vi­ously posted for this Fri­day, the 5th.) Sorry for the short notice, and we hope to see some of you there!

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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 when we […]

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