For more than a decade, I’ve started the year in a similar way. Beat myself up about everything I failed to achieve in the previous year, mind mapping an exhausting list of all-the-things, and building a detailed project plan that becomes unwieldy by week three and...
Life As A Chronically Ill Entrepreneur: My 2023 Reflections
For more than 20 years, I’ve spent time in December and over the holidays reflecting on the year, but this is the first time I’ve published my notes. While I didn’t achieve many of the goals from my 2023 goals list, I accomplished one significant one that felt...
My Top 2023 Non-Fiction Books – My Favourites for Founders, Writers, And Marketers
This was a fruitful year for reading books that helped me build the writing and skills I needed to grow my business. What I haven’t included on this list are the many, many books I read to help navigate a serious chronic pain flare that lasted six months. If you’d...
My Top 2023 Favourite Books in Feminist Fiction
I read a ton—this year, I will hit +65 by the end of December. (It’s an approximate number because I don’t know how much time I’ll get over the holidays to read. It will depend on whether we get some snow.) Books have always been an important escape for me. Whether...
Owned Content vs Social Media: Launch Your Content Home Base
Elon Musk has turned Twitter into a dumpster fire, with changes to how posts are viewed, moderated or verified, leaving people frustrated and choosing to leave the platform or reduce their presence on it. If your entire livelihood and business model was built with...
Is Writing A Book Worth It? 5 Benefits to Consider
It’s one of my favourite cocktail party conversations—have you ever thought about writing a book? Not that I go to many cocktail parties these days (the combination of COVID and chronic illness means I’m home a lot) but even casual conversations and asking this...
5 Ways To Start Using Thought Leadership Content To Build Authority For Your Brand
There’s no shortage of content coming at us these days. Generative AI tools like ChatGPT are adding to the volume of content being shared because they simplify the writing process for entrepreneurs and anyone looking to attract new clients from content. There’s...
How To Create A Writing Habit That Sticks (My JLO Epiphany)
I have struggled for years to write on a consistent basis---something that kept me from feeling like a "real writer"---and it took a lesson from Jennifer Lopez to finally create a writing habit that sticks. Whenever you read about the habits of successful authors,...
Proprioceptive Writing: A Practice For Unlocking Your Unconscious Mind
Step by step instructions for using proprioceptive writing to access your unconscious mind to generate more ideas and find new solutions to problems.
It’s Time To Find My Writing Voice.
Writing articles like this is one of the most difficult tasks in my life, and something I’ve been avoiding. The irony is not lost on me, given that I work full-time as a writer. I move in and out of other people's voices all the time. Why is writing my own content so...