Pay From the Heart. And Mangoes
Recently I’ve seen questions from our beloved clients about sliding scale and pay what you can pricing. I interviewed my friend Tad Hargrave, and he said the most cogent things I’d ever heard on the topic. Briefly, you can’t use sliding scale and pay what you can approach to avoid your own money issues. But […]
Design Advice From The World’s Worst Designer
You may not know this but when I first started out in this field, back in 1999, my business was called “Success by Design.” My previous history of running a magazine, working on a newspaper, and a LOT of experience with QuarkXPress convinced me to do design for self-employed folks. It shouldn’t have convinced me; […]
How Spiritual Opening Creates Business Movement
We’ve been going through a particularly challenging transition at Heart of Business, one that is helping us evolve and grow as a true team. In some ways we’re shedding some of the last vestiges of the solopreneur childhood that was, and stepping into the true team that is now. Similarly, something has been happening with […]
Facing the Ick Factor of Asking Others to Promote You
Awhile back I had a client who was relaunching for the first time after taking a couple of years to recover from a high-octane coaching program he had participated in. One of the biggest parts of a well-done launch is asking others to help promote it. Unfortunately, for many of us the ickyest (is that […]
Avoiding a Drought in 2013
Here’s a quick 2 minutes from one of our star practitioners Jason Stein about avoiding a money drought in your business. These are two of the issues he focuses on when he helps his clients increase their income without trampling their heart. I think it’s worth mentioning that Jason has had a few clients complete […]
5 Places to Stop Trying to Do It All At Once
If I haven’t already mentioned it, let me tell you that I am a 5-planet Virgo, a 1 on the Enneagram. And if that means nothing to you, it adds up to a controlling, detail-obsessed, type-A, overworking perfectionist. It’s taken years of spiritual practice, healing and sheer cussedness, but all of that has calmed down […]
Beyond Toilet Paper Activism
In high school I remember Larry, a friend of mine, talking me and another friend out of toilet-paper rolling the South African Embassy. This was during the apartheid protests, and living right outside Washington, D.C. it seemed like a good idea at the time. Thankfully Larry was successful. “Think about it, dude. You will be […]
Money’s Starring Role in the Creative Process
This article teaches a principle taught in our year-long Opening the Moneyflow program. Over the next 3 weeks we’re going to be delivering three lessons. There will be a no-cost live call on November 26 for the third lesson. You can join here: No-Cost Third Lesson Being heart-centered in business can sometimes obscure the fact […]
On Finding Faith in Hard Places…
This article is by our star practitioner Yollana Shore. Yollana co-facilitates our year-long Opening the Moneyflow program and works directly with clients, as well as being an integral part of our team. “I’ll tell you what I need: tips for having faith when I am running low on money and still working my butt off.” […]
We Can Do Financial Harm To Our Clients
This is a guest post by Bridget Pilloud and Matthew Stillman and is part of the Do No Financial Harm discussion. Recently Mark Silver asked a very honest and interesting question. “Can we do financial harm to our clients?” Yes. We can. We can do financial harm to our clients in several different ways, most […]