What My Relationship and Marriage Taught Me About Friendship and Business
My husband’s name is Isaiah. (He’s a graphic designer. You should hire him.) We met in Chicago when I was 16 in a karaoke bar I used to sneak into back in my rebel days. We were friends for a couple of...
View ArticleGetting Over Imposter Syndrome: You Are Not a Fraud … Now Get Over Yourself
My mom is a career woman. She’s successful and smart and confident. She’s taught me a lot about how to manage my career — some of which I threw to the side, some of which I passed on to people without...
View ArticleNobody Cares About Your Networking Skills — People Like People Who Listen
You guys. I’ve been a serial event attendee lately. Between conferences and local speaking events and mixers, I am slowly losing my will to live. Is “networking” really that hard? Am I just a jerk? I...
View ArticleYou’re Only the Main Character in Your Story — Not Everyone Else’s
People are inherently good. They are also naturally selfish. We all know this. I learned something about selfishness from love. In a new relationship, you’ve got this feeling about someone based solely...
View ArticleKeep Making Mistakes
I am not afraid of making mistakes. I don’t prefer to make them. I own up to them when I make them. But I don’t let them creep in and make a comfy, moldy little home in my identity. You shouldn’t...
View ArticleI Hate Conferences. I’m Being Serious.
I have been attending conferences and professional “networking” events on the reg since I went to college. I hear someone speak or mingle in some artificially created setting just about once per week....
View ArticleDon’t Be the Asshole At the Company Holiday Party
This topic is old. I’m aware. It’s on every fucking blog this week. I don’t care. I work at The Starr Conspiracy. We just had our holiday party. It was a seriously good party. Not a seriously good work...
View ArticleIf You Want to Be a Smarter Marketer, Stop Reading About Marketing
I subscribe to a quintrigintillion blogs and read all of them on a weekly basis. At least, I read all of the posts with headlines that grab me. And, if I’m deflating my initial statement, I probably...
View ArticleNon-Verbal Communication and Hearing Loss
I am more than 60 percent deaf. That’s not a real thing, just so you know — percentages of hearing loss. In reality, hearing loss is a spectrum that no clear-cut percentage can explain. The last time I...
View ArticleDoes Your Small Business Need a Talent Community?
I thought about writing this starting and ending with “no.” But I won’t do that. It’s more complicated than that. If you’re unfamiliar with talent communities, it’s basically a network of people in the...
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