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Tara Mohr wants you to play bigger in 2012 than ever before. I interviewed her about it here as she opens registration for Playing Big, a women’s leadership and professional development journey. Tara Mohr is someone I always have my eye on. I love watching how people craft their online platforms, and take considerable notice [...]
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I love it that I have friends who give me great books just when I need them. Michelle Farinella is one of those friends. {Do you know her and her work? She’s one to know.} At Profit Catalyst earlier this Summer, Michelle gave me a book called The Big Leap by Gay Hendricks. I’ve spent [...]
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PROLOGUE A look at this Summer {so far} at Abby Kerr Ink and beyond . . . and maybe your Summer, too. I know it’s not Summer everywhere right now, but let’s take this as a metaphor, shall we? * ACT the FIRST I woke up from a dream one morning this Summer, sat up [...]
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I’m copping to it. {I’ve been copping to so much lately.} I have this habit of saying, “Who, me?” when people ask me a direct question. Like, on the phone. As if there’s anyone else hearing the question. {Yeah, me.} Of course, that’s right before I lay it aaaaaalllllllllllllllll out on the line. And [...]
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I’ve been sitting on my hands for the past couple months, building a new product for my people and trying not to spill all the beans, and today I finally get to tell you all about it. It’s called Freeing the Voice of Your Business and I’m releasing it this Thursday, June 16th. It’s not [...]
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As a younger woman, I felt a profound discomfort with the concept of power. In undergrad, I loved my women’s studies classes and filled my elective schedule with various courses from the department, but resisted my professors’ urgings to pick it up as a minor. I never told them why. Here’s why: the power discourse [...]
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I hate it when you don’t sound like yourself. {There was a time when I didn’t sound like myself, either. So I’ve got compassion for you. I know how you probably got into this situation. But I’m also ticked off on your behalf.} Know what else? Your right people hate it when you don’t sound [...]
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So I’ve heard there’s been a wee bit of ‘unintentional mimicry’ hysteria being whispered in the backchannels ever since my last post went live. Was chatting with a friend about it and decided I needed to publish this piece next to set a few people back on-kilter. In my last post on unintentional mimicry, I [...]
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Confession time. {Better listen up. Public confessions are generally not my thing.} The first iteration of my web copy for Abby Kerr Ink — which was over a year and three iterations ago, in case you were wondering — read nothing like it does now. It wasn’t written in my voice, although I myself wrote [...]
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I’ve been transfixed by NBC’s new talent show, “The Voice,” since its premier a few weeks ago. Especially because it highlights an aspect of creative entrepreneurial life that really deserves some attention right now. Your voice. The voice of your business, savvy creative entrepreneur that you are and are rapidly evermore becoming. The importance of [...]
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