Money Matters
Our practitioner Jason Stein has an unusual knack at helping clients make money. It’s really fun to watch. He’s helped people face money issues, and he himself has gone through his own journey with it. Recently he made this video to have a little fun and to delve a little more into his perspective on […]
Lesson from the Fiscal Cliff and No Cost Learning Series
As a U.S. citizen, I watched the “fiscal cliff” negotiations with some interest. As usual, the conversation about money was less than nuanced. Some had a hardcore position of all spending cuts, some wanted to lean more heavily into increasing revenue. The truth is a little more powerful: the relationship the U.S., the entire western […]
Tightwaddishness versus the Trusting Leap
Someone had emailed me about our year-long Opening the Moneyflow program (which starts tomorrow) and had explained his situation. The business was making very little money, from the little he described there were big foundational pieces missing, and I thought the business model wasn’t one that could be successful as-is. I told him to would […]
Being Brave About Referrals
The simple act of asking for referrals added $40,000 in revenue for us. Wow. And, actually, it’s been more than that, I’m just thinking of the latest requests we’ve made. I, however, have a history of being very shy about asking for referrals. So much so that colleagues have remarked on it, “How come you […]
Stories of Hope from 2012 for 2013
If Christmas is your holiday, you’re poised on the eve of it, and I wish you a joyous holiday. If it’s not your holiday, you can, like we do, draft on the goodwill and love of this time of year. For some, however, this time of year is not so happy. Feelings of loneliness, separation, […]
Can You Lend Your Heart’s Voice?
After hearing of the shooting tragedy at Newtown Elementary, we at Heart of Business were, like so many others, devastated. None of us could focus on work, so we didn’t. Susan told me she just “went out” for awhile. I was leading a virtual retreat for our Alumni Community, and just spent as much time […]
Shattered… and the Love
I am shattered, overwhelmed by the immense insanity not just of the shooting today in Newtown, Connecticut, but of the 22 previous mass shootings in the U.S. since 2007, including one a few days ago here outside of Portland. And this is one small slice of the violence we humans do to each other globally, […]
Cheerleading
Growing up as a geeky punk rocker in the early 1980s, I stayed as far away from my high school gym as possible. I don’t think I attended even a single high school football game the entire four years I was there. The “spirit” events felt so fake to me. I was an angsty, geeky, […]
Calvert-Woodley and the Competition Plus Video
Growing up in my family meant hearing about “the store.” My grandfather started the family’s retail wine store in 1933, right after Prohibition ended, and my parents ran it as well for many years. Calvert-Woodley was one of “the store’s” biggest competitors. And yet, rarely, but from time-to-time, my parents would refer someone to them […]
Today Is (Sorta) The Deadline
Years ago I worked in newspapers. It’s true that the high school newspaper isn’t the most elevated journalistic experience, but I did also work for my college newspaper which published daily for a population of 30,000. Then, years later, in San Francisco I was managing editor for a nonprofit magazine. All of these publications had […]