Tag Archives: Glorious Guest Post

Sep 10 2013

A 5-Step, Easy to Follow Formula for Making Money Doing What You Love

I met Kate Northrup in 2009 at Danielle LaPorte’s NYC FireStarter Session. Geez, it was forever ago! I’ve been friendly with her ever since, always impressed by her smarts, her chutzpah and her smile. So thrilled to have her guest posting here, especially since I’m about halfway through her new (and first!) book, Money: A Love Story & it resonates so damn much.

Follow Your Passion by SpoonLily

People throw the phrase “Do what you love and the money will follow” around quite a bit.

I wish I agreed with it, because it sounds really nice and pretty, but the truth is, it just doesn’t work that way.

I love to go to the movies. I love to read novels. I love to go out to dinner with my fiancé. I love to swim in the ocean.

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Sep 09 2013

How To Build Your Creative Business Quickly

grow stretch reach dare by Jessica Swift

I just love it when super smarties join forces, don’t you? In this case we have Becca from The Uncaged Life teaming up with Ellen the Money Making Expert to help coaches jumpstart their biz. But the interview they give below applies to building any creative biz. Win-win!

What do creative businesses struggle with?

Becca: Creative business owners tend to fall into the category of multi-potentialites, scanners, and shiny-object chasers. We have TONS of new ideas and are always creating new stuff – often stuff that is unrelated to our other stuff. So what happens is that we find it hard to settle on just one thing or one group of clients, and as a result, we end up being super wishy-washy, and trying to help EVERYONE, which means that the people who really need us get lost in the mix and never find us – which sucks for us and them!

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Jul 24 2013

Irish Wisdom & Moving Forward

Oh, that Stacy Kathryn. This post needs no introduction. Just know that all of it is the absolute truth.

As I sat on the tour bus and watched nervously as our driver negotiated tight turns down a narrow, one-lane road, enroute to Connemara on the gorgeous West Coast of Ireland. As we headed out from one of our first stops of the day the bus driver mentions the possibility of rain but quickly adds,”we’ll just take it as it comes” in his thick Irish brogue. Even though he was only referring to the weather, it felt to me like so much more. It was one of those oft-used phrases that seemed to have weight to it despite its simplicity. Maybe because they were the words I needed to hear at that moment; a message somehow specifically meant for me. I adopted it as my motto for the rest of my trip across Ireland, and even back home here in the states those words still resonate in my mind.

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Jun 12 2013

Wabi Sabi and Your Uniquity

Julia Ng is back to post here all the way from Singapore, and I love being introduced to the concept of Wabi Sabi. It’s all about beauty, being present, and a world full of change and possibility.

Must be kismet that I snuck a spot on the WIGU blog during The Declaration of You’s Uniquity week! It’s an incredible blessing that I get to witness clients (re)awaken to their unique Soul qualities and unfold these Soul qualities in both their inner and outer worlds.

Each time I do a reading, I’m struck by how each person’s Soul story is different and how it’s played out in their lives. At the same time, I’m reminded to stay centred in my uniquity while embracing change. It’s not always easy.

It’s often much easier to see how others are beautiful and unique, but I daresay we all tend to hold back on, or worse, FORGET our uniquity.

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Jun 06 2013

How to Create Your Best Art (no degrees, hustlin’, or experience necessary)

Ooh, that Kat McBride. Not only is she killing it with the art classes she’s been teaching, but now she’s gonna give fear the smackdown – especially when we’re convinced that we need “more training” or that we’re “not creative.” Puh-shah!

Fear Not of Breaking the Rules by Sincerely Noted

If you’re not creating the art you want because you, “can’t even draw a straight line,” please, get a ruler and get on with your bad self.

I share art tutorials for beginners online, plus I teach art classes and workshops to all ages. I want people to get their hands on this info and use it to better their lives by creating more beauty via art: Art and beauty can heal by building self esteem through positive self expression, and it doesn’t have to be hard.

If you couldn’t tell – I’m a painting zealot.

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May 20 2013

I Quit My Day Job: Jen Vertanen

Feels Good To Get Some Stuff Done by Mary Kate McDevitt

Think that Quitting Your Day Job means you have to stop working for someone else and work solely on your own biz? Think again! Jen Vertanen tells ya how she quit her job & found a new one + her own heart-based biz.

Hello, hello! My name is Jen Vertanen and I am a Small Biz Strategist + Vision Actualizer for creative entrepreneurs. My specialty is helping right-brain creatives get even more great sh*t done without having to work so. freaking. hard. Why? Because I’m a right-brainer operating in a left-brain corporate setting as a Senior IT Project Manager. So yeah…I get it!

I have an interesting, albeit unusual, I Quit My Day Job Update for you because I actually still have a day job and even better…I love it and even better than that….it’s helped me refocus and re-energize my own business from that of an ‘I-don’t-know-what-the-hell-I-am Coach’ to now which makes sooooo much more sense that I can’t believe I didn’t think of it earlier!

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May 15 2013

Why I Haven’t Given Up and Neither Should You

Oh my, how I love that Stacy Kathryn decided to share this letter to her past self with us today. If you need a soft kick-in-the-pants that the long, winding journey you’re on will lead you to absolutely, positively having your dreams come true, then read on.

Love this print? You can download a printable .pdf here!

This is more of a personal story, though I feel it applies to anyone out there who is chasing a dream but feeling that it’s always just out of arm’s reach. It was seven years ago that I decided to pursue art as my career. I found myself with paintbrush in hand, discovering my love for creating all over again thanks to artists I found online sharing their passion and excelling at it. Those days were just like falling in love, I was in a haze of paint, amazing discoveries, and the feeling of walking on clouds.

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May 08 2013

The Awesome Person in the Terrible Hoodie

Roald Dahl print by KensieKate

Oh, how I love that Danielle Euzent from Urban Darling. Not only has she taken my man from hot to sizzling, she’s helping us all in how to encourage your loved ones to make some positive changes. It’s advice you could apply to your marriage, your career, or your wardrobe. Either way, it’s gonna look good on everyone.

Last time I guest blogged here, I coincidentally ran into Michelle (and Friends) while walking home that evening.  Of course we talked about what you readers would want to learn about in my next blog post, and one of the first things that came up was “How do I get my husband to stop wearing those terrible hoodies?”  (Or, you know, insert whatever terrible item of clothing your significant other will not stop wearing.)  Excellent question!  While I cannot guarantee success, I do have some suggestions that might encourage your better half to make some positive changes.

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Apr 25 2013

Hey Soul Searcher! I’m talking to you!

Heart 416 from 1000 Hearts

Are you a “professional soul searcher”? You know the type – someone who’s gone through many hobbies, jobs, and journals on the quest to find Their Passionate Career. Tiffany Doten is right there with ya, and she’s here to make sure you know that it’s not a curse in the least! Read on for some fist-pumping mantras, and bookmark this post to reread when you catch yourself thinking otherwise.

Tomorrow, I say a happy goodbye to being what I call a “professional soul searcher” for the last 3 years. Throughout my soul-searching career I’ve learned to fly a plane, been to nursing school, taught group fitness, worked in sales, started my own knitting business, and dabbled in photography just to name just a few. Out of the billions (it feels) of things I tried, none them struck me or made enough dollar dollar bills as being something I wanted to do “when I grow up”.

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Apr 17 2013

What To Do with the Crap Opinions (and a Great Giveaway)

Not only does this post from Kat McBride make me wanna raise my fist in the air a la Breakfast Club, but the kind things she’s said give me the biggest case of the warm fuzzies (they were all a surprise!). Make sure you read it all and then enter to win a spot in her $197 course – she’s so the bestest.

I always knew what I was going to be when I grew up – I just didn’t know how to do it, and I couldn’t let myself do it for a long time. I’m an artist and I will paint every moment of my life if you let me but pressures from my family, and a lot of negative beliefs about artists, stopped me from treating Artist like a real career.

I received and believed so much stupid advice, nay sayings, and crap opinions about art and artists.

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Basically, what this means is that everything I write is my own property (duh), but you can use it on your blog or in your newsletter or as skywriting as long as you don't change nothin' & you add the following : "Michelle Ward, aka The When I Grow Up Coach, helps creative people devise the career they think they can't have - or discover it to begin with! A certified life coach by the International Coach Academy, a musical theater actress with her BFA from NYU/Tisch, and a Corporate America escapee, Michelle has served as an expert source and contributor for such outlets as Newsweek, Forbes, and Psychology Today, as well as leading workshops and seminars at SXSW 2011 and the sold-out Etsy Success Symposium. She could be found coachin', bloggin' & givin' away free stuff at whenigrowupcoach.com."

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