It’s the first day of summer, and I’m sitting outside on my back porch researching WordPress themes for myself and a client. I’m trying to find the perfect design for Re-Think Recreation’s site, as well as a client of mine that I like to call “the un-accountant.”

I can’t think of a better way to be spending my afternoon!

That’s the great thing about finding something that you truly love to do. There is no part of it – even the accounting, marketing, or whatever part you currently find difficult/boring/hard/whatever about your business – no part of it at all that is a “chore.” When your business is your self-expression, marketing becomes exciting conversations… Accounting becomes an exercise in seeing how profitable you are… Sales are an opportunity to share yourself with others…

Your business and  your life become intertwined, and you no longer have to hate Monday mornings – or Tuesday afternoons!

Now if you’ll excuse me, I have a neat theme to find and a little girl to cuddle in the sunshine!

Wow, I sure disappeared for a few days there! Sorry about that. Hubby and I have been working very hard to get things going with our new campground company.

We’ve actually made the executive decision to work with all types of outdoor/wilderness recreation, to increase sustainability, social and cultural responsibility, and profitability – simultaneously. A huge challenge I know, but something I honestly feel we can accomplish if we work together.

So this blog is going to take a bit more of a personal slant for awhile. Of course I’ll still be sharing my business wisdom which you can (hopefully) learn from, but rather than coming from a coaching perspective, I’m going to walk the walk, and live my life the way I encourage others to. I still have a strong passion for helping mom entrepreneurs, and that isn’t going anywhere – neither are my years of knowledge gained.

I just had the realization that Read the rest of this entry »

A lot of business coaches, experts, and professionals have a tendency to pretend that they live in an impenetrable fortress of success. That they, unlike you, drive Bentleys, live in giant mansions on the California coast, travel the world first class, and never eat caviar before noon.

And you’re probably expecting me, someone who talks about a concept like “branding”, to be just as amazingly successful and unreal. Every other coach is, that is how they learn to coach people – by making themselves successful.

Well, no. That’s actually complete horse-poop.

The coaches we tend to see brag about their own success, and then the success of those they work with. Which is great, I mean a lot of them are very successful. But how does that really help you?

I mean, sure they know how to work in their underwear and make quadrillions of dollars – supposedly – but do they actually know how to teach someone *else* to do that? Do they even know if it will work for you? A lot of them are clueless about coaching when they start.

What you find on these pages is a bit different from Read the rest of this entry »