Pursue Your Dreams

Whether your dreams are career and work dreams or just a dream project or lifestyle (or all of the above), here are real-life practical resources for women who want more fulfillment in their lives, whatever that looks like.

what it takes to change things
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How do you save the world while still keeping your own family safe, fed, and cared for?

This week we watched the long-awaited Incredibles 2 and it got me thinking about what will it take to change things in our world, and our own lives.  Fourteen years after the original film, I wondered how this new addition would be different.…
selling without feeling sleazy
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The Magic Mindset to Selling Without Feeling Sleazy

Those words "sales" and "marketing" have often felt icky to me. Marketing definitely has a stigma caused by the incessant, bludgeoning advertising and empty promises that assail our modern lives. And sales? For me it's often had a sleazy,…
how to give your book or creative work its best shot at succeeding

How to Give Your Creative Work its Best Shot at Success

Your book, service, art, or product–should you choose to share it with the world–deserves its best shot at success. Don't forget that. One of the most common questions I get is, "Do I need to have a brand or online presence before I have…
National Novel Writing Month reduced my stress

How Doing #NaNoWriMo is Actually Reducing My Stress

I hemmed and hawed about whether to participate in National Novel Writing Month this year. The idea of this challenge--writing a 50,000 word novel in a month--has always appealed to my overachiever side, but I’ve never pulled the trigger,…
How branding helps writers and creatives
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Why Branding is So Important for Writers and Creatives

One of the most common questions I get from writers and creatives is, "how can branding help me?" There are so many ways, but for brevity's sake let's just look at these few. But first, remember that great personal branding is all about knowing…
inspiration is for amateurs
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Inspiration is for Freakin’ Amateurs

“Inspiration is for amateurs; the rest of us just show up and get to work.” -Chuck Close I realize this is a funny thing to say given that my work is largely infused with inspiration/motivation, but you'll see what I'm really getting at.…
internet tips
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What to Do When Trolls Attack

We live in a new era, one in which anyone can say anything online with often without consequences. Heck, even our “Commander in Chief” knows that. But what do you do if YOU are the subject of an online attack? I’ve managed social media…
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Make Money from Your Art: The Ethos of the Starving Artist

There's this unspoken longsuffering ethos in the literary world that writers must suffer for their craft, always look at their work as inadequate; and be relentless in their pursuit of the grand art of it all. And the ultimate reward for this…
Low Information Diet

Free Your Creativity with a Low Information Diet

I'm one of those people who naturally wants to do 4.5 million things almost all the time. Life is full of possibilities and opportunities and, let's face it, there's never been a time when so much information has been so available. Did I mention…
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What Fear Looks Like

Warning:  What follows is very raw, unpolished and deeply personal.  I cried as I wrote this.  I'm sharing it with you because I want you to know there is freedom from what holds you back right now.  And, maybe just maybe, if I show you…