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You’ve got a newsletter to publish tomorrow and you’ve barely written one word of your article. You owe three clients follow-up emails and no assistant to help you draft them. So you set your child up with their favorite snacks. Then you pray the attachment parenting police won’t catch you and write you up for [...]

Can we just agree that being a peaceful parent 100% of the time is just impossible? Maybe if you just accepted that, you’d be kinder to yourself when you lose it  get frustrated with your kids. Or you’re running late for an important meeting. Or you have a client point out a BIG mistake you made. [...]

I’ve got a question for you. And I promise not to judge your answer. Are you yelling at your kids sometimes? A lot? Are their badly-timed tantrums starting to exhaust you? Do they rebel against bedtime on the one night you’ve got an important client call? Yes, I know you love them. But you’re frustrated, [...]

What are you working for? If I had asked myself this question more often, I may have avoided hitting the brick wall of frustration I found a few months after leaving the 9-5 world for full-time entrepreneurship. I made the leap into working for myself because I was tired of putting the life I wanted [...]

Have you ever looked at other moms at the playground and thought they’d figured out something you haven’t? Do you assume they’ve got it going on?  Their homes are neat and tidy? And they always have their nails done and a cute outfit on to match their cute hair? I know I have. And the [...]

I love this manifesto from Brené Brown’s latest book:  Daring Greatly.   Source: brenebrown.com via Ije on Pinterest   I’m doing a 30-day experiment and will start each day reading one line of the manifesto and holding the intention of embodying it that day. Who wants to join me? Let me know in the comments [...]

I was 36 when I took my first taekwondo class with my son.  It was a humbling experience. The first move we learned was fighting stance.   My stance was okay.  My son’s was pretty good.  The youngest kid in the room had the best stance in the class.  Looking at him out the corner [...]

Goddess Star Monroe::UK’s Leading Empowerment Expert for Women I had a powerful interview with the powerhouse Goddess Star Monroe. She shared so many gems of wisdom I had to break the interview into two parts. In this first part. we talk about her 20 years as a successful entrepreneur, how she “sorted herself out” through [...]