What’s in the Water?
Guidance for Swimming Against the Stream
In waking up to whiteness, there are questions to answer and ideas to confront. Molly’s insights bring perspective and clarity.
The Paradox of Money and Meaning: Why Thrival Comes First
Many self employed professionals in the creative and healing arts flounder on the shoals of making a profit. Experts in their craft or practice, they excel in their work of making meaning, yet fail to earn more than a survival level income. What's wrong with this...
I Can Do It Myself (Not): Beyond Self Sufficiency
Why You Can’t Measure the ROI of Social Media (unless you’re a real person)
Love this David and Goliath tale from Jonathan Fields at Career Renegade. The moral of the story? [I]f you’re a small business or solopreneur Career Renegade and you’ve been wondering about the value of this wacky thing called social media, fact is you’ve got a huge...
The Art, Science, and Grace of Thriving
Oops! forgot to post this week's article to the blog. I'm in Taos at Jen Louden's annual writers' retreat, and it's heaven! Thriving is part art, part science, and part grace. A thriving business must not only accommodate but support life in all its complexity. A...
Zen and the Art of Paving: Off Topic
There are right ways to build paths, and I did not use any of them for this project. The area immediately adjacent to the carport was sandy/rocky/clay full of pebbles and packed hard as stone. I scraped out the grass and weeds that eked out an existence there and...
How to Add a Stream of Income that Makes Your Clients Smile and Makes You Money
Recently in Shaboom County we were talking about how to figure out what you can sell that people will actually buy. In other words, how do you create a new stream of income, really? Most of us approach designing a product or service by figuring out what people need,...
It was a grand old fourth
IMG_9580, originally uploaded by Bainbridge Island Review. My friend John Ellis and I at the microphones to announce the 42nd Grand Old Fourth parade on Bainbridge Island. Photo by Sean Roach of the Bainbridge Island Review.
It was a grand old fourth
IMG_9580, originally uploaded by Bainbridge Island Review. My friend John Ellis and I at the microphones to announce the 42nd Grand Old Fourth parade on Bainbridge Island. Photo by Sean Roach of the Bainbridge Island Review.
It was a grand old fourth
IMG_9580, originally uploaded by Bainbridge Island Review. My friend John Ellis and I at the microphones to announce the 42nd Grand Old Fourth parade on Bainbridge Island. Photo by Sean Roach of the Bainbridge Island Review.