You know that feeling: Your thoughts are flying at 90 miles per hour. It’s new business ideas, it’s deliverables, it’s remember-to-text-your-friend-tomorrow-it’s-her-birthday. It’s mental hyperventilation. The thoughts are going so fast you can barely complete one before the next comes zooming along. When you’re an entrepreneur, the professional is very personal. You’re pouring everything you have…
Welcome to Shop Talk! While we love providing you with jam-packed, actionable posts, we also wanted to share quick, thought-provoking snippets here and there — from our brains to yours. We once had a coaching client blurt out “I want to run away” mid-session. We could have laughed and kept pressing her about her to-do…
The comparison trap is a universal one. You’ll be hard pressed to find anyone who hasn’t fallen down the slippery slope and had a moment (or two) of jealousy from coveting someone else’s career success. And let’s face it — no matter what career stage you’re in, there will come a time where comparison will…
Let’s not beat around the bush: There seems to be a myth amongst One Woman Shops that it’s shameful to take on part-time or full-time work for someone else when they’re working to build their solo business. The feelings that come up: shame; embarrassment; failure. After all, how can you call yourself a business owner…
Do you feel a little like you live in a vacuum? You’re working your solopreneur socks off, getting stuff done, but in a big empty cave of introverted aloneness? Your mental space is big, echoing, empty, and you’re used to the silence of solitude. It’s not really fair — you became a solopreneur to get…
I recently took a well-deserved vacation up and down the West Coast. I scheduled my blog posts, doubled-checked my invoices, and gave my clients the scoop, but I couldn’t shake the feeling that I was going to miss out on something. It was my first time away from my business for more than 72 hours,…
