Stop Being Selfish!

STOP BEING SELFISH! That's my New Year's resolution for you. I just got off the phone with a brilliantly talented woman who worked with me five years ago. Then she quit. You have gifts. They're not yours. They're the world's. Since then, she keeps marking how many...

Dia de Los Muertos — How to Wake Your Business from the Dead!

November 1st, 2014. 6pm. Annual Dia de Los Muertos -- Day of the Dead -- festival. Hollywood Forever Cemetery. Hollywood, California. Only a few feet away, the woman with the blue-feathered headdress waves her torch through the twilit air, trailing thick smoke around...

Are You Afraid to Step Into Your Power?

Early morning. Casa del Mar hotel. Book BlastOff client Michele Brown writes her first on-the-spot timed exercise. It's such an honor to witness that kind of concentration, creative flow...and trust. Personal story is truly the most intimate act -- to write, and to...

Burn This! The Art of the Moment is Marketing At Its Most Essential

Here I am on a giant bicycle. If I didn't ask Pete from Playa Bike Repair to take the shot, I might not've believed I climbed that bike. Nor remembered how gargantuan it was, how slippery and treacherous. Nor how elated I felt once I was up there, perched over the...

So I just bought a yurt…

...because I'm going to Burning Man in Black Rock City, Nevada, again. Round Two. Thanks to the business I've built this past year -- I've upgraded. No More Tent! This time, you will not see me lose my mind on the Playa from lack of sleep, wearing amber-tinted...

A Tale of Two Entrepreneurs — A Story of Success and…

Once upon a time, there was an entrepreneur. This entrepreneur was stuck. She was confused. Overwhelmed. She knew she had to tell her personal story to make her business clear. To step up her game. To make her big dreams come true. But which one? How would she know...