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I fully support our guest's perspective of retiring the term “retirement;” as Dr. Jann Freed aptly puts it, “We are not retiring from...

When we talk about systems in business, we are most often referring to processes and technology. However, the best and most important...

Here on “The Self-Employed Life,” we often focus on businesses with under five team members, and even one-person businesses....

Observing my coaching clients and students of the Self-Employed Business Institute, I see far more fear of success than failure. In this...

If you're like most people, when you hear the term “seven figures,” you probably immediately think of money. There's nothing wrong with...

I recently learned a new term called biomimicry, which is mimicking what we observe in nature and applying it elsewhere – such as in...

We often think of being in the zone or being in flow as optimal states. While those are certainly great states to be in, I'd like to...

I've often said that recognition is a strategy, not a destination. Few of us want to be stars or celebrities, but smart marketers today...

Sometimes we know we're special and sometimes we feel like the odd ones in a crazy world. In this episode, I share some scientific PROOF...

Generally speaking, the listeners of my show – my coaching clients, and the students of the Self-Employed Business Institute – tend to be...

In our attempts to reinvent ourselves, reposition our messaging, or work through the next iteration of our businesses, we can have...

One of the things we self-employed business owners are often unprepared for is being an employer. The independent attributes that make...

What we, as small businesses, can learn from big companies has nothing to do with mimicking them in any way. But what is important to...

I truly believe that one of our greatest responsibilities as service providers is to let the world know how we can serve them. Too often,...

Sometimes you're just not sure if it's a compliment or not. I've always assumed being called a beast in business was a compliment but on...

What's the number one reason anyone becomes self-employed? Freedom. Independence. Is it possible for everyone to work and live anywhere...

Being such freedom-seekers, self-employed business owners often aren't prepared to be an employer, but we can find ourselves in that role...

We are often ill-prepared to be an employer when we set out to create and run our own business. In this episode, I share some of the many...

It's built into my sign off that, “you may be in business for yourself, but you're not in business by yourself.” You are not alone....

We all know the typical advice. "Work ON your business more than IN your business." That's good advice to a degree. In this episode I...