Yollana in a Mango Tree Plus Small Groups
A friend of the family helped our son David make a home-made pinata for his birthday party, which worked spectacularly well. Because of time constraints (they made it the day before the party!) it was less sturdy than some pinata’s I’ve known, only two layers of newsprint before the colorful paper on the outside. This […]
The Simplest, and Hardest, Thing to Do in Business
This year, for their sixth birthday, our twins are going to each have their own birthday party, instead of a combined party as has happened up until now. The two of them, Sam and David, are as different from each other as you can imagine, in personality, in what they like and don’t like, in […]
How to family-crisis-proof your business
The weekend before Halloween my son Sam broke his elbow while jumping on our trampoline. No, we shouldn’t have had two adults jumping on with him at the same time. (Parental lapse of judgment, oy gevult.) It was bad enough to require surgery, and so wiped out Sunday and Monday, and even Tuesday I wasn’t […]
From Manipulative to Heart-Centered Marketing
Over the last year there have been a number of course corrections we’ve taken at Heart of Business, and each one was preceded by a moment of truth-telling. For instance when Steve Mattus, our Director of Education (and one of our practitioners), told me something for the fourth time, I finally heard it. It takes […]
Why you don’t deserve a successful business
I woke up to the sound of rain on the skylight in our bedroom. It was 2:30am, and I just listened to it for a while. Rain for me has a special significance. My wife Holly and I met in California, where we had each lived for more than a decade. When I first visited […]
The Better Together and We’re Hiring
I have never been so challenged in business as I have in the work of turning Heart of Business into a company. Not only has it been a steep learning curve in many ways, but it’s been a bit rough and tumble emotionally for all of us. Our practitioner Jason Stein has a relentless (welcome! […]
We’re hiring! Are you our Operational Wizard?
This is both an exciting and a sad moment in the life of Heart of Business, Inc., because we’re moving beyond using a Virtual Assistant. Which means two things: we’re hiring an internal team member, and Susan Lucibello, who has been our Virtual Assistant for years and years, has room for a new client or […]
Learning New Things Without Losing Who You Are
While facilitating a variety of sessions recently, I’ve had volunteers up at the front of the room with me while we’ve worked through their business challenge with everyone watching. One woman, who was struggling to have enough clients in her business, brought my attention to a tension between “coaching” and “teaching” which has a real […]
Saying Goodbye to An Old Friend
I’m writing this from a really cute AirBnB studio in Victoria, British Columbia, where I’m presenting at the Bellyfit Summit in a few hours. I love Victoria, and Canada in general, which isn’t really a surprise since I live in Portland, Oregon, which happens to be Canada’s 11th province (or so I’ve been told.) In […]
What Words to Use to Ask Others to Promote You
To all followers of Judaism: L’shana tovah! For you, and for all of us, may this be a sweet new year. As you’re reading this, I’m in Edmonton, Alberta teaching with my friend and colleague Tad Hargrave. Then I’m off to Victoria, B.C. for the Bellyfit Summit and an event for Living the New Economy. […]