Motivational

As recent data breaches have shown, you likely can’t prevent your personal information from being stolen. However, knowing what a credit freeze is and taking advantage of it can help protect you and your finances.  When you freeze your credit, it keeps sensitive data in your credit files from being accessed without your permission. While […]

Bill Murray is one of America’s great pranksters, the funny guy who became a household name on Saturday Night Live. Later, the actor starred in movies including Caddyshack, where he plays a gopher-obsessed greenskeeper named Carl Spackler, and Ghostbusters, in which he plays psychologist, parapsychologist and ghost hunter Peter Venkman. And he knows how to

“Do less to make more” is Amy Porterfield’s mantra, and for good reason: Through her focus on gaining in-depth knowledge on a select few things and marketing that knowledge to others, hers is the name that pops up when it matters. But entrepreneurship hasn’t always come so easily to her.  After leaving her job as

As a kid, my dad occasionally took me fishing in his small, rusty tin boat. Sometimes, in the middle of the lake, he’d put duct tape over a leak to keep the water at bay until we got back to shore. He used to say that boats don’t sink from the water around them. They

With mass layoffs continuing to make headlines, your small or new business might think—at first blush—of saving cash and manpower by defining and activating its brand strategy in-house. Or perhaps you feel confident enough to completely press pause on any branding work. You’ve already figured out your vision and how to set yourself apart from

When Gary Moore’s son, Andrew, turned 11 in 2007, Moore worried about his future. Moore’s concerns weren’t typical. While many parents were thinking about grades, extracurricular activities and adolescence, Moore was concerned about what would happen once his son transitioned to adulthood. His friend Dan Selec understood these woes. Moore and Selec were fathers to

At 27, Keely Cat-Wells has been a Forbes 30 Under 30 honoree, an advisory board member on Lady Gaga’s Born This Way Foundation and has visited the White House as a participant in the first Mental Health Youth Action Forum. Last year her talent agency, C Talent, was acquired by Whalar in a deal that’s

Funding startups by underestimated entrepreneurs is the mission of Backstage Capital. Arlan Hamilton, founder and managing partner, says, “We invest in the very best founders who identify as women, people of color or LGBT in the United States. I personally identify as all three.” Christie Pitts, Backstage Capital’s general partner, talks about the early days

Bill Murphy is no stranger to struggling. The in-demand business coach had a difficult upbringing marred by competition and escapism. But he faced a choice: grow or stay stuck.  Driven to improve his situation, he developed biohacking routines and coping mechanisms like meditation and breathwork to build a life he loved for himself. “Part of

The lights of the concert hall dim. The audience grows silent in anticipation. Angela Jia Kim, a talented concert pianist, sits in front of her piano and begins tickling the ivories like she usually does—until hives start to appear all over her body.  For a piano virtuoso, your hands are your life. After discovering that