Disrupting Design and Embracing Your Inner Rebel
Maybe you’ve noticed from listening to my podcast and reading my recent emails that I’m in a particularly rebellious stage of my life. Oprah said that when you turn 60, “You take no shit. None. Not a bit.” (As if we needed one more reason to love her, right?) Maybe I’m ahead of the curve, […]
Your Business Strategy: Stop Doing This One Thing
The other day during one of our live DesignYou Zoom coaching sessions (we have these weekly inside the program), one of our members wanted advice around following through on a business strategy that relied heavily on social media. “I know I NEED to be showing up on social media,” she said (and I’m paraphrasing here), […]
Living and Working Without Regrets
I want you to LOVE your life… which is why today today, we’re talking about the top five regrets of the dying. Stick with me. I guarantee this will be the most profound thing you hear today (maybe all week). You may have heard of a woman named Bronnie Ware. She’s an Australian palliative nurse […]
Your Picture of Success
If you ask a random person to paint a picture of success, they’ll probably tell you it looks like a power suit and leather briefcase, first-class flights, standing on stage delivering a talk to a big crowd, driving a fancy car and living in a big ol’ house, getting featured in the media, being surrounded […]
5 Rebellious Steps to Achieve Success
My dad has always had a huge influence on me as a business owner and CEO. He was an entrepreneur himself and I always aspired to be as successful, focused, and productive as he was. Yet try as I might and even with all the privilege I fully acknowledge that I have as a white […]
A New Definition of Success
When I started my interior design business 20+ years ago, I was hellbent on becoming “successful.” You may be thinking, well duh… no one starts a business to be UNsuccessful, right? But here’s the thing: Simply making enough money to support my family wasn’t enough. In order to feel truly successful — and perhaps most […]
Why You Need to Shift from Scarcity to Abundance Mindset
Friend, I have got something for you! Do you feel like you never have enough time? Or money? This is a sign of scarcity mindset! I know it because even though I’m a big believer in abundance thinking I spent years in scarcity too. If you feel like you’re not enough or you’re lacking in […]
How to Shift Your Money Mindset
OK I’m getting real with you this week… Do you try to pinch pennies? Are you afraid you won’t have enough money? These fears are so common—but they’re the exact OPPOSITE of what we’re supposed to think if we want to be successful in life and business. We attach so much fear to money—we’re afraid […]
Overcoming Obstacle Thoughts
How’s it going, friend? I want to tell you a story about my business that I’m sure you can relate with. A few years back, I had so many ideas for what I wanted to do in my business. I wanted to have a retail store, I was going to Christmas Decorating for people and […]
My 2018 Word of the Year
Happy 2018! It is here. A fresh start. This is the beginning of anything you want. And I know what I want. I have been choosing a word of the year for the past 6 years, this year is #7. It’s one of my favorite New Year’s traditions and it’s instrumental in guiding my choices and […]
2017 Year in Review
It’s hard to believe, but it’s almost the new year. 2017 is done. And equally hard to believe for me is that this is my 10th year of sitting down on December 31st and doing a comprehensive review of all the things that I experienced, accomplished and celebrated over the last 12 months. One of the […]
