Of course you do!! It’s funny, only 24 months ago if you would have asked me if “getting paid to speak” was on my radar I would have looked at you like you had 4 heads. For whatever reason, I had this notion that to get PAID to SPEAK you really needed like a gillion […]
Anyone else a fair-weather Instagram reel creator like me? I don’t know what it is about them… BUT I HATE THEM. I MEAN I LOVE THEM. As someone who has an entire business around storytelling and video, you’d think I’d be pumping these bad girls out most weeks, but I don’t. It always gets pushed […]
In the spirit of content repurposing, I stumbled upon this blog post from three years ago in the google archives when “I was determined to write a blog” and I never did because consistency! Add that to my long list of “died a hot fiery entrepreneurial death” idea grave. Also, this was waya hella too […]
My family and I were bopping around our NY hood and leaning into tourist life because friends were visiting.**by the way I have never met a double decker tour bus I didn’t love but I digress I wanted a family pic where us (OK ME) and approximately 4,678 other families also had the same idea […]
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 […]
I hate to tell you this. But most of what you write no one reads. The same for your videos. No one watches them. Why? It’s all too long. SIGH. I watched this SHORT Ted Talk video and he affirmed (with actual data) what we always knew in the video storytelling world. You are taking […]
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 […]
Writing about yourself is hard. Showing up on camera and talking about yourself -that isn’t one giant snore fest- is even harder. In order to stand out from the approximately 897,675 other people doing the exact same thing as you, you will want to get comfortable with sharing key parts of your back story that […]
My biological dad left my family when I was 5 years old.Bear with me here….I promise I’m not sending you down my personal Lifetime Movie path. It’s something I don’t think about often and if I’m being honest, probably have not fully come to a complete peace with. But you could say rejection is something […]
Hooks are the beginning of every amazing story. And the hype is true. Write a hook that connects and it’s the reason your audience will continue watching your video (or reading your pitch, email, newsletter.) Write one that doesn’t hit home and that video or newsletter you spent HOURS, OK…DAYS making will be for you […]
