Our new website! Basics versus Fancy tactics
Lookee! A new website! We’re deeply grateful to our team, and to Casper Blackwell of www.websitesforhippies.com who put this redesign all together! Our last website was designed back in 2010, and there have been a heckuvalotta change on the interwebs over the last 7 years. To have a new, responsive, cleaner design feels great. But […]
Two Forces of Change that Matter to Your Business
Heart of Business is making some exciting new changes! More on that to come later in the article. It’s true – change is constant. It’s also necessary. When water doesn’t move and flow, it gets stagnant. Humans who lose the use of their limbs – their muscles atrophy. Ever walked into a room where the […]
Our Miserable Little Launch and You
It’s *really* easy for someone to look successful from the outside. Which is why I like to be honest about what’s happening for us, so you get the raw truth of what it’s like to be in business. On one hand Heart of Business is doing amazingly well. We’ve been profitable and developing for 15 […]
An untasty recipe for end-of-year
Last week I led the Heart Sessions retreat here in upstate New York, with an amazing group of heart-centered business owners. We did chanting, we went deep, and what emerged from the depths was startling to behold. (Yes, there will be one next year. We’re still finalizing the dates.) The recipe is simple, but not […]
[Video] The lesson of the 3 jars
This week I’m out of the office leading a lovely group of heart-centered business owners at the Heart Sessions Retreat here in upstate New York. The rest of the team is around, though, including our team member Yollana Shore, who brings an inspired Sufi teaching to new life. Before we get to her video, I […]
Yom Kippur
In the Jewish calendar, today is Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement. Or, as friends of mine like to say, the day of At-One-Ment. It is arguably the holiest day in the Jewish year, a day of fasting, or recognizing mistakes we’ve made, and of opening our hearts to the Divine. Although in popular culture […]
Brush-hogging an acre of your business
At White Hawk, the ecovillage we live in, we’re about to start a 1-2 acre hazlenut grove project. The location we picked is currently full of goldenrod and some other brush. It’s land that hasn’t been used for human purposes in quite some time, and it’s in the process of turning from a field into […]
4 things that free sessions need to work
Updated 2/17/21 When a business owner offers free sessions, there’s usually one of two results: crickets, meaning no one responds. Or, instead, people respond, free sessions are given, but no new clients come from it. It’s hard to know which is worse. It’s great to have the validation when people do respond, but all of […]
[Video] Feedback only from those who cherish you
Quick note: Sam Bennett, of the Organized Artist Company (she helps artists and creatives actually make money, very heart-felt approach) has organized what she calls an “ebookapalooza” which isn’t nearly as overwhelming as it sounds, since there are only 6 people involved, including yours truly. One of the people is SARK (Susan Ariel Rainbow Kennedy) […]
The deep pain of dysfunctional teachers
While on the spiritual path, or working within personal development circles, I have felt a great deal of distance between the depth of spiritual teaching, and the pain of dysfunctional organizational dynamics. We’ve seen this where large religious institutions have failed to protect their most vulnerable members. Many of us have also seen in it […]