I know you are all HUMMING it. I’m sorry for that. I made a shit ton of mistakes when I started my business at the top of 2017. Yes, going through the mistakes is part of the entrepreneurial process. But not pivoting soon enough in another direction is the reason most people like us don’t […]
The difference between your Founder Story and your Brand Story. They are not the same story even though there may be overlap. What differs is the primary objective of each story. The Founder story is overridingly meant to sell yourself. NOT your business.The Brand Story is overridingly meant to sell your business. NOT yourself. The […]
SHE. DID. IT. I popped my Linkedin Live Cherry! And the Blazer and power gold necklace was in full glory. In case you missed our live a while ago, my friend, mentor and polar opposite in camera energy personality Terry Rice and I spent the better part of an hour talking about: Terry kicked off the […]
Your founder story is one of your most valuable assets when telling your company’s origin story.
How much time do you have? Because there were SO MANY MISTAKES I made when I first launched my business at the top of 2017. For those of you who don’t know the back story, here is a video I made that is Cliff Notes In hindsight I now realize that me trying to be […]
For better or for worse, social media has turned us all into investigative non-trustworthy skeptics. WOW. How’s that for a personality trait? What Enneagram is that!??! By the way I have NO IDEA what mine is but that’s for a different email. Nothing good…like really good…is ever easy. If it were…we’d ALL be doing it. […]
If someone came up to you and asked you why you do what you do….do you know what you’d say? (without you word vomiting and without the person getting that GLAZED look which is Universal Human Sign for STFU!!) So do you? Rachael didn’t. Meet Rachael who just wrapped my Founder’s Fire cohort (check out […]
So last week I made a reel and it took me a cool 754 hours to make. The content creator in me is cringing because View this post on Instagram A post shared by Patrice| Storytelling, Personal Brand, Video Coach (@patricepoltzer) But in making that video about how I got to the bottleneck of NY […]
UNPOPULAR OPINION COMING ATCHA. I have a visceral reaction whenever I hear entrepreneurs preaching the virtues of “NICHE” and “STAYING IN ONE LANE.” Why? Well other than the fact it literally makes me so anxious and like I’m somehow already clucking up before I’ve even started…. I also don’t think that is always possible when […]
