[Video] In face of big events is your business even relevant?
It took me some time to realize that the fall illness that had me coughing and hacking these last two weeks was actually unexpressed grief around the U.S. election. And, as I watch the president-elect appoint a creationist as the Secretary of Education, and a man who has made a living partially out of giving […]
How’s that “healing the world of business” going?
This past Friday was one of our every-other-month Virtual Retreats for our Community, and on one of the calls, a retreatant asked me, “I love that you are taking on healing in business, and, with all that’s going on in the world, I’m wondering how you think it’s going?” Whoooosh…. I just paused and sat […]
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Live retreat with Mark: The Heart Sessions in November near Ithaca! A small group of no more than 16 business owners will come retreat, in person, with Mark for 4 nights and 3 days outside Ithaca, New York. The evening of Nov 15 through the morning of Nov 19, 2016. Click here if you want […]
Curiosity at the Bowling Alley Networking Event
Steve Mattus is our Director of Education, Community Manager, and also a skilled Heart of Business practitioner who works with clients. I’m very introverted and a highly sensitive person (HSP) and so going to traditional networking events, for me, has a long history of being incredibly distasteful and nauseating. Blah. Yuck. No thanks. I’d rather […]
[Video] Best-selling author struggles with fear of visibility
Earlier this week I had a conversation with best-selling author and Supercoach Academy founder Michael Neill about the 3 times he confronted his fear of visibility, and how his business and work moved forward in big ways each time he was able to walk through the fear. Except that the fear didn’t look like anything […]
When your energy drops and just can’t market
Here’s a really common dynamic: you’re getting ready to put something out there, like a new way of presenting your work, or a workshop, or a new product, or even your business as a whole. Then, the getting-ready involves gritting your teeth, pushing frantically, and doing a lot of high-energy “marketing” tasks to get the […]
Trump, Sanders, and the dangers of carefulness
Here in the US we’re in the run-up to a presidential election… what? You already knew that? On behalf of all US citizens and our government I want to apologize for the oversized shadow our media circus casts over the rest of the world. It’s been strange, but I’ve watched in real fascination as a […]
When you’re dreading leading team meetings
This is an important day for Heart of Business: the debut of Lincoln Wachtel in our newsletter. Lincoln deserves a little introduction, just so you know who you’re reading. Lincoln came to Heart of Business when I was burnt out and exhausted. He told me later he was really worried about me. My team had […]
The learning curve when it comes to teams
Any business that achieves some level of success eventually hits what one of my clients called, a “crisis of capacity.” This is when you have more to do than time to do it. I don’t just mean having a lot of things to do on your list, but having more clients, more work, more paying […]
Doing Visionary Leadership Right
I haven’t written a lot on leadership for obvious reasons: a lot of our clients are self-employed, and even the many who have slightly larger businesses usually only have a handful of people on their team. Standard “leadership” topics don’t really seem to be relevant. But leadership IS relevant, especially if you have a small […]