Boy age 13 Wishlist: gift cards to buy clothing for Foot Locker, Nike, and Old Navy, football, basketball, body wash, electric razor, remote control car That’s the wishlist of one of the boys in a family that my own family is supporting for Christmas this year. His list made me smile because he sounds like […]

As an Interior Design Business Coach, I firmly believe that your newsletter is the foundation of your loyalty program. When people are a fit for the way you want to serve in the world and they subscribe to an interior designer’s list, they’re giving you permission to keep them interested. They’re also more likely to […]

Working as an Interior Design Business Coach, one of the most important things I help interior designers to do is to set an intention. When you’ve set an intention for a new vision and hit the start button, it usually gets messy. Everything that is not a match for that vision will present itself, usually […]

Do you think I have what it takes? As an Interior Design Business Coach, it’s a question that some designers have asked me during that first call. Me: Do YOU think you have what it takes? I’m not trying to be coy. Editors like what they like. Clients like what they like. Your peers like […]

Embodiment is one of the things we’re talking about in my new offering, Illuminate. For me, embodiment is a conversation about mind, body and wellbeing and the things that get in the way of achieving that synergy. The number one problem? Stress. Hans Selye, a pioneering Hungarian-Canadian endocrinologist and his research made the way we […]

As an Interior Design Business Coach, I hear a lot of advice, a lot of it wrong. Perhaps it’s the creative rebel in me but I get fired up by marketers and “expert”s who tell me that everyone should be on instagram, tiktok, forget about lead generation, should charge flat fees or hourly only, or whatever […]

“Too many professionals try to protect themselves against failure, but never plan to exploit success!” ​I’m doing my daily lunch-time reading and that sentence by author Alan Weiss jumped off of the page. As a single mom, I’ve lately been wrapped up answering all of the “what if disaster strikes” scenarios demanded by insurance planners, […]

The creative entrepreneurs I work with who run the biggest businesses tend to be a good blend of what until recently, science has called being left- and right-brained. They can toggle easily between an analytical approach and a more creative and emotional one to solve problems. I operate that way too. When we’re collaborating to […]

Most of us have learned that it’s not a good idea to burn bridges, because we think of that concept exclusively in terms of relationships. But if you’ve read Napoleon Hill’s classic, Think & Grow Rich, you know that the concept of burning bridges is also a reframe for risk. Burn the bridges that keep you […]

Half of the kids in my neighborhood have already gone back to school which feels a little crazy to me since I’m still in Summer mode. Last year at this time, I was closing on a house and I had no idea what was in store for us as I made a move across the […]