January 2025

How to Build Your Personal Brand, According to Gary Vaynerchuk

Who are you anyway—and what is your brand? What does it stand for? You might know, but does the rest of the world? Building your brand and communicating it to others doesn’t happen by accident—and it sure doesn’t happen overnight. Knowing this, personal branding expert Gary Vaynerchuk took to LinkedIn workshops recently to share his

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Free New Year Meditation & Writing Challenge

Hi friend! As you might recall, last fall I shared an empowering five-day meditation and writing challenge from Tiny Buddha contributor Nadia Colburn. This month, she’s back with another free meditation and writing challenge, designed for the new year, focused on transformation, and I can’t recommend it enough! Founder of the online creative writing school

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5 Hidden Ways Codependency Is Sabotaging Your Relationships

“We rescue people from their responsibilities. We take care of people’s responsibilities for them. Later we get mad at them for what we’ve done. Then we feel used and sorry for ourselves. That is the pattern, the triangle.” ~ Melody Beattie I first uncovered codependency and how it was ruining my relationships back in 2019

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Why an ‘Innovacation’ Might Be Just the Thing To Help Spark New Ideas

What if the breakthrough idea you’re chasing isn’t at your desk but somewhere far from it—maybe in a quiet village café or on a mountain trail you’ve never hiked before? Shifting environments, or what some entrepreneurs call an “innovacation,” might be the sharpest tool for unlocking creative thinking. Indeed, research shows that while 84% of

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Grief Is Love

*Affiliate disclosure  “Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value of joy, you must have somebody or something to divide it with.” – Mark Twain Mark Twain’s quote helped give me back some hope. It will also give those who have lost hope a positive outlook. And, for those of you

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3 Keys to Turning Your Side Gig into a Successful Startup

Even though wedding rings are their specialty, you won’t find much—if any—gold at the Honest Hands Ring Co. workshop in Morrison, Colorado. What you might find, instead, are drawers full of shark teeth, mammoth tusks, fossilized plants, offcuts from wedding dresses, splinters from treasured log cabins, antlers, feathers, high school band instruments—you get the picture.

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