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So what exactly is an Entrepreneur
I have been wondering for years now, what exactly is an entrepreneur. On one side, you have those that give you that label simply because…
Winter is Here!
Winter is here! The leaves have gone, the weather has turned, and the December holidays are right around the corner. The business season has changed,…
Can you Vacation?
One of the greatest joys of owning your own business and working for yourself is the freedom to schedule work around your family, spouse, and…
Empowering Your Team
“Empowering employees so that they can make good decisions is one of an entrepreneur’s most important tasks.” – from Like a Virgin: Secrets They Won’t…
Systems and Processes Aren’t Just Big Business Tools
I recently came across an article on Entrepreneur.com that caught my eye. You have Good Ideas–Don’t Let Them Disappear by Matt Mayberry made a point…
Entrepreneurs, are you overwhelmed and considering trading your business for a day job?
Take a deep breath, we’ve all been there. You certainly aren’t alone in feeling this way. While working for someone else may be the right…
Do You Have a Paper Nest?
Look around your work area. Are you sitting in a nest of paperwork? Can you tell what day you began a project by how far…
Should you be the one running a business?
How’s that for a controversial question? Should you be the one running your business? Your feathers may be ruffled, but man, this has been a…
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If effort is high and outcomes are inconsistent, look at the structure, not the people. This is one of the harder conversations to have with a business owner, because it requires them to look somewhere they often do not want to look. The team is showing up. They are working…
The problem is rarely the calendar. It is what the calendar is built on top of…I used to think the answer was more time. More hours in the day. Fewer commitments outside the business. A longer runway before the next deadline. What I have learned, from my own experience and…
Reset is not a vibe. It is a process. I chose reset as my word for 2026. Not because I needed a fresh start aesthetic or something to put in a caption. But because something had to change, and I knew it, and I needed to make that commitment concrete….
Avoidance is not neutral. Delayed decisions compound. There is a decision you have been sitting on. Maybe more than one. You know what it is. It is the conversation you have been meaning to have with a client whose relationship has run its course. The hire you keep almost making…
Structure does not flatten good work. It protects the space where good work happens. I hear this objection regularly, especially from creative service businesses. Coaches, consultants, designers, writers, strategists. People who chose their work because of the freedom it gives them and who built businesses that reflect that freedom. The…
If you’re making money but everything still feels heavy, reactive, and scattered, you’re not doing anything wrong. You’re experiencing a normal – but dangerous – growth gap. Revenue Does Not Equal Stability Many business owners assume chaos means failure. In reality, chaos often appears after traction—when demand grows faster than…
This year marks 25 years in business. A quarter century of building, breaking, fixing, and starting over. I keep waiting to feel like I have it all figured out. I don’t. What I have instead is a long list of things I’ve learned, most of them the hard way. So…
Knowing you should be more proactive is not the same as kEvery business owner I talk to knows they should be more proactive. They say it themselves, usually right after describing a fire they just finished putting out. ‘I need to stop being so reactive.’ Yes. You do. But that…
When every decision runs through one person, growth has a ceiling. I say this with genuine respect, because I have been there myself: the most common bottleneck in a growing service business is the owner. Not the market. Not the team. Not the economy or the competition or the clients….
Most service business owners have thought about their personal estate. Almost none have thought about what happens to their business. Nobody likes this conversation. I get it. Thinking about what happens if you are suddenly unable to run your business, whether for a week, a month, or permanently, requires sitting…