Category: Flamingo Club
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The Unfiltered Truth About Back-Office Operations
If you looked at my social media feed over the last few weeks, you would think it was business as usual. The reality? I have been completely sick in bed for 11 days. No filter, no polished office background, just me under the covers trying to rest and recover. Nobody…
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What Santa Pictures Taught Me About Quiet Social Media Feeds
Every year around this time, we put on the matching pajamas (sure do miss when we wore fancy dresses though), the girls lineup for Santa pictures, and I hope for a picture-perfect moment. (FotoFly never lets us down!) Looking at my girls opening boxes and cracking each other up, it…
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The 80-Year-Old Version: Why Masterpieces Require A Starting Point
I was walking through a quiet garden section at the zoo in San Diego recently when I stepped into a Bonsai Tree Garden. 🤩 Tucked right into the soil near each tree base was a small, understated sign. The one I fell in love with noted: 80 years old. Now,…
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Version 1 Beats Version None (Don’t Let Overthinking Hide Your Business)
So many small business owners come to me with incredible passion for their business. They invest real money, heart, time and late-night sweat equity into building out their dream. They choose the brand colors, tweak the logo, refine the fonts and even build out full website pages and social media…
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Building a Shelter Before the Storm: How Basic Structures Protect You in Survival Mode
Ben and my oldest daughter were standing next to a palm leaf that was almost as big as they were. We spent some time talking about how you could build a shelter out of it if you ever got stuck in the woods- and a brand new family inside joke…
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Adapting to Growth: Why Breaking the Operational Bottleneck Feels Unnatural (And How to Do It Anyway)
Did you know that almost all the iconic palm trees lining the streets of California are actually non-native? They were imported, planted and adapted to thrive in an environment they were not originally born into. Driving down the road to get to the beach, looking up at them, made me…
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Ditch the To-Do List: How Time Blocking Reclaims Your Sanity and Sanity-Driven Productivity
How many times have you sat down at your desk, looked at a handwritten list of thirty tasks, and immediately felt a wave of exhaustion hit you before you even started? If you are trying to manage your home, your kids and your small business using a traditional to-do list,…
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It Is Not a Personal Failure. It Is a Systems Failure.
The very first thing clients tell me when they jump on a coaching call is that they feel like they are failing in their business. They are completely overwhelmed, exhausted and have zero clue what to work on next. They assume the problem is their own work ethic, their lack…
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All or Something Is Better Than All or Nothin’
We were sitting in the car dealership, waiting on whatever mysterious multi-point inspection process takes place the second they take your keys and walk away. My husband was sitting right next to me in the tiny leather chair, phone pressed to his ear, taking business calls without missing a beat.…
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Work Smarter, Not Harder: Why I Refuse to Run on the Social Media Content Wheel
I was looking at a photo from this past spring of our momma duck with her fresh batch of ducklings. My husband spent some time building them a solid, sheltered coop with a roof that doubles as a door so we can keep them safe from other critters at night.…