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 [...]

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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 [...]

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