Est reading time: 7-9 minutes (promise this is worth your phone time)​​​In My World:​​School finally started this week (thank you Jesus) and I forgot Monday was Labor Day.​AM I EVEN AMERICAN ANYMORE.😭​My incessant slacking to my American founder client only realized when the day was almost over. Our second school year in Lisbon. Back to perpetual confusion on the […]

Learn from a psychotherapist’s major midlife transition

For the past two weeks we’ve had friends stay and visit us in Lisbon from NY. My former work wife from the TODAY show came to see me. (also a coach in my premium Founder’s Fire storytelling program where we put your WHY story to video kicks off this fall…get on the waitlist!) My first NY […]

A Quick AI Storytelling Hack For You

In My World​​I had a talk yesterday with a mentor and one of the smartest women I know in business and especially the online space.​I said to her, “I’m working so much to the point where I think I’m doing something wrong most weeks. Do you think other online business founders are lying when they […]

The Truth Behind ’10-Hour Work Weeks’ in Online Business

I am making some changes to my social media and I will be giving you the rundown on how it is going.​But first.​Your cheat sheet as always so you can scroll.​1. In My World: my time to share with you something personal in my life.​2. A Story Audit: I take submissions each week and will audit anything you send […]

The Secret Ingredient That Connects with Every Audience

Hear me out, because I, too, have said, “the hook is the most important part of your story.”But I am changing my tune. Why? Because of AI and programs like Chat GPT. My main wingman Claude can vomit out a TON of really awesome Hooks in SECONDS. Let me show you my original Email headline that […]

Why the most important part of your story IS NOT your opening line.

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 […]

If I Could Turn Back Time

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 […]

Your Founder Story v. Brand 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 […]

My Biggest Mistake When I First Started My Business

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. […]

Your Customers Need to Hear About Your Setbacks

“I have been accepted to give a TEDx talk in June!!!!!! The topic I was accepted with — how we can’t move humanity forward without improving the quality of life for women in the workplace. And guess what I wrote about — my STORY!!” Having a clear, inspiring founder story in written and video form […]

I Booked a Tedx Talk With My Story