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“There will always be chaos. There will always be change. You will always be dealing with fires in your life. It’s really about how you respond to the chaos that will determine your success or failure.” – Elisa Schmitz, on the Successful Bookkeeper Podcast with Michael Palmer. I had a great conversation with Michael Palmer,…
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It’s very rewarding when third-party organizations validate the dedication you put into your work. Especially when those organizations make it their mission to share only the best books and products with their communities. I know this professionally because book and product reviews were part of my first business, iParenting. We developed the highly respected iParenting…
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You know the little voice inside your head that whispers things like, “I’m not qualified” or “What if I fail” or “I can’t do this”? Those thoughts are part of impostor syndrome, the uncomfortable feeling that you are a fraud or a phony unworthy of success. So many of us deal with those self-limiting thoughts…
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Sarah Hofstetter has always been unapologetically herself. Her parents divorced when she was 13, then both remarried, creating a blended family. Sarah could be found picking up after the younger kids and helping to balance the family checkbook while constantly packing bags to bounce between her parents’ homes. Sarah’s maternal grandfather – a rabbi who…
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I believe that women supporting women is essential to our collective success. That’s why I wrote Become the Fire, and it’s why the book stresses the importance of female allyship. When we take an active role in fostering each other’s achievement – through role modeling, coaching, mentoring, networking, promoting, connecting, etc. – and as we…
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In my book, Become the Fire: Transform Life’s Chaos into Business and Personal Success, I share 10 lessons that show success in career and life is not dependent on how smooth a path you have. It’s about mastering your own transformation – from being thrown into the fire to becoming the fire – every single…
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When I first met Laura Desmond, she was the CEO of advertising behemoth Starcom and we were speaking on a panel at the Cincinnati, Ohio, headquarters of Procter & Gamble, the consumer packaged goods giant, about “Courageousness in the Workplace.” The audience was made up of hundreds of the Fortune 50 public company’s rising female executives and…
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Looking for inspiration as we head into the New Year? I’m a huge fan of audiobooks because they make it so easy to be inspired. You just grab your headphones and start listening! I just learned that the audio version of Become the Fire has been released on Audible by my audio publisher, Ascent Audio.…
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The holidays are the most wonderful time of the year, right? So with all that joy swirling around, why do we often feel so stressed and overwhelmed? With so much pulling at us, with so many people needing our attention, with so many bittersweet memories of the way holidays used to be, and with so…
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As an entrepreneur, one of the things I love most about what I do is building community. At my first business, iParenting, we built a community for expectant and new parents that grew into one of the biggest parenting communities online. After iParenting was acquired by Disney, it was tucked into the larger community of the Disney…
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