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Embrace Change: Your New Blueprint for Growth
Read more: Embrace Change: Your New Blueprint for GrowthWe are at the end of March, making this the perfect time to pause and take an honest look at how your Resolution Blueprint is working in real life. Not the version you imagined in January, but the one you have been living inside of for the past three months. Because here is what tends…
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Hello YOU: A Business Coach’s Guide to Branding Clarity, Stalled Sales, and the Future of Small Business
Read more: Hello YOU: A Business Coach’s Guide to Branding Clarity, Stalled Sales, and the Future of Small BusinessLet’s have a real conversation about small business. Americans are taught how to start a business. We are encouraged to dream big, take risks, and believe in the power of entrepreneurship. We hear the success stories about founders who turned a small idea into something incredible. What we rarely hear about is the moment when…
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Thursday FOODIE Flashback: When a Meal Brings You Back
Read more: Thursday FOODIE Flashback: When a Meal Brings You BackIf you watch enough cooking competitions like Top Chef, MasterChef, or the newer America’s Culinary Cup, you start hearing a phrase that judges repeat often: the best food doesn’t just taste good, it evokes memory. That line stayed with me recently because I experienced exactly that on an ordinary Taco Tuesday at Plaza Azteca. For…
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Wednesday Wisdom: The New American Housing Reality
Read more: Wednesday Wisdom: The New American Housing RealityThere’s a conversation happening quietly across the internet right now, and it’s not about dream homes or HGTV renovations. It’s about survival. Lately, I’ve been watching videos where people explain how they are living in hotels instead of apartments. Some rotate hotels every 28 days to avoid residency laws. Others stay in extended-stay suites because…
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Courage, Faith, and a Fresh Start: The Story Behind All That Grace Boutique
Read more: Courage, Faith, and a Fresh Start: The Story Behind All That Grace BoutiqueNot every entrepreneur begins with a business plan. Sometimes it starts with a closet clean-out, a conversation with family, and the quiet realization that life is too short not to pursue the things God placed on your heart. For Lea, founder of All That Grace Boutique, the path to entrepreneurship began with reselling but ultimately…
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Branding Lessons from The Great Food Truck Race
Read more: Branding Lessons from The Great Food Truck RaceThe other night my daughter and I started watching season three of The Great Food Truck Race on Discovery+. It has turned into one of those quiet, low-key traditions that sneak up on you. The kind where you sit down thinking you will watch one episode and end up three episodes deep because the storytelling…
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Friday Flashback: When Hope Ends and Somehow Begins Again
Read more: Friday Flashback: When Hope Ends and Somehow Begins AgainFeaturing Natasha Bedingfield — Soulmate There are songs that don’t just remind you of a time period. They remind you of who you were emotionally when you lived inside that season of life. Soulmate was that song for me. Around 2010, I listened to it constantly while an on-again, off-again relationship finally, definitively ended. And…
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National Get Up Day: The Quiet Strength of Getting Back Up
Read more: National Get Up Day: The Quiet Strength of Getting Back UpNational Get Up Day lands at an interesting time of year. January ends, winter still feels long, and many people are already tired of pushing toward goals they set just a few weeks ago. The ice-skating connection makes sense because skating teaches something most of us resist learning in life: that falling is not failure.…
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Wednesday Wisdom: A Parent-to-Parent Heart-to- Heart About Roblox
Read more: Wednesday Wisdom: A Parent-to-Parent Heart-to- Heart About RobloxLet me start here: if your kids have played Roblox, you didn’t fail as a parent. Most of us said yes because it was 2020, the world shut down, our kids were isolated, and Roblox looked like creativity, connection, and harmless fun wrapped in bright colors. We were doing the best we could with what…
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Florida Day: Sunshine Dreams in Snow
Read more: Florida Day: Sunshine Dreams in SnowI have been embarking on a song-a-day challenge over on Substack, and thanks to Winter Storm FERN, I completely forgot that it was National Florida Day. Because of course it was. There’s something wildly ironic about celebrating Florida, the land of sunburns, palm trees, and salt-rimmed glasses, while staring out the window at over a…
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Why ‘Vienna’ Encourages a Slower Pace in Life
Read more: Why ‘Vienna’ Encourages a Slower Pace in LifeThere are songs that feel like they were written for adulthood, even if you first heard them much younger. “Vienna” is one of those. It waits for you. You don’t fully understand it at first, and then one day it quietly taps you on the shoulder and says, “You’re tired because you’ve been rushing.” Billy…
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Red Hair Pride: Lessons from Jolene and Aging
Read more: Red Hair Pride: Lessons from Jolene and AgingFor Kiss a Ginger Day, I can’t help but think about Jolene and about the years I spent wishing I looked like someone else. I was born with naturally auburn hair. Not fiery red, not strawberry blonde. Auburn, the kind that shifts with the light and refuses to be easily categorized. And for a long…
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