Making Videos – more tips from Jason
Before we get to making videos, I have to wish a belated happy birthday (it was yesterday) to my friend, Andrea Lee. (That’s her to the right.) Andrea has been involved with coaching since the early days, and has been a significant wise, ethical and smart-as-heck voice in the coaching and business world. She’s a […]
[Video] Heart-Leadership: Defining Success
Yollana has been working with clients within her Small Group Coaching, which she calls the Heart Leaders Circle. For someone who is self-employed, leadership can feel like a tricky question, but the truth is that many of our clients are blown about by the winds of other people’s demands or examples. Leading means really -owning- […]
5 1/2 Tips to Making Video
This Friday, May 22, is a send-off party for me, Mark. No, I’m not leaving Heart of Business. But I, and my family, are leaving Portland. I’m sad about all the wonderful people we’re leaving behind, and we’re excited about our new adventure to Ithaca, New York! If you are in Portland, or near enough […]
A quick exercise to make your marketing more effective
After 15 years of working with folks who are self-employed, I’ve watched so many people get stalled out with speaking or writing to their audience. Whether you’re creating a web page, an email, a video, preparing a talk or otherwise getting ready to put your message “out there” I have one very simple exercise for […]
How to get from the west coast to New York in 21 years
Here’s the deal: my family and I are moving from crazy, weird and wonderful Portland to Ithaca, New York. At the end of this month. After making the decision about 4 weeks ago. There’s a whole backstory of how my wife Holly and I have tried to move back east, closer to family and to […]
Intimacy in Business
This week Yollana Shore, our Heart of Business practitioner Down Under (near Brisbane, Australia), dives into what’s been coming up for her clients around intimacy and business. You want to be authentically yourself, and yet perhaps there can be too much intimacy? It’s a short video, and you get to see the beautiful place Yollana lives, […]
Stop Being So Nice
Now, I’m not saying that being nice is bad thing. BUT… we’ve seen situations where the effort of being nice, when it’s not authentic, leads to over giving and can cost you pieces of your soul. Our practitioner Jason Stein, with a cameo from his wife Rachel, deals with the issue of niceness and what […]
Transformation does not require money
This past Friday I was leading a 24-hour Virtual Retreat for our Community, as I do every two months, and one of the retreatants was nearly in tears of rage and sadness asking for feedback asking about, from a spiritual perspective, the trend to charge high prices and make premium offers. “I heard a business […]
How to respond when someone is interested
You’d think it’d be obvious- if someone tells you they are interested in what you do, then you just say… One of our clients asked this question recently, because she found she was freezing up. “What do I do? I don’t want to leap and drool all over them, I don’t want to bore them. […]
When You Just Can’t Do What You Know You Need To
Portland, Friday, April 17 Before we get to today’s video, here’s a quick invitation if you’re anywhere in or near Portland, Oregon. I’m holding a half-day workshop on April 17. Take a look! I’d love to meet you in person. How to find clients and charge your right price. And now, on to today’s topic… […]