How a Gap Year Will Change You and Your Future
A 2018 study by the American Psychological Association found that 70% of high school students reported feeling burned out at least sometimes, and 20% reported feeling burned out often. A 2019 study by the University of Cambridge found that 30% of European teenagers reported feeling burned out at least sometimes. All indicators point to these […]
Startups Fail for a Few Key Reasons
Follow your passion. Do what you really love. Work isn’t work when you love it. Live your dream life – become an entrepreneur. We could go on for paragraphs with the social media ready soundbites people love to spout about entrepreneurship but, (1) you’d be bored, (2) eventually you’d smell a rat, and (3) we’d […]
Why Executive Presence Matters for Women
Women have been taking the workforce by storm, becoming leaders, and making impactful changes within the labor force. Female entrepreneurship has also been steadily increasing within the past two decades, as approximately forty percent of businesses in the United States are owned by women. As women continue to pursue entrepreneurship, it can often be challenging […]
How to Give Your Business A Competitive Edge With Coaching
What do Serena Williams, Oprah Winfrey, Hugh Jackman, and Bill Gates all have in common? They have all honed their success and expertise through hiring coaches to encourage their work and development. Consider your daily routine: you work in a corporate role, own your own business, or are managing your day-to-day life. Whatever your situation, […]
Can You Embrace Creative Destruction?
In the 1950s, Austrian economist Joseph Schumpeter coined the term Creative Destruction: a process of industrial mutation that continuously revolutionizes the economic structure from within, incessantly destroying the old one, incessantly creating a new one Creative destruction is the lifeblood of capitalism. Embracing creative destruction is a survival skill for entrepreneurs. Companies literally die when […]
Keys to Success: Affirmations, Visualization and Action
Thanks to the internet and recent technology, you can get almost anything at the touch of a button (or smartphone). The concept of delayed gratification has become outdated. Instead, we are living in a world of instant gratification and near-constant stimulation. For that reason, many people find themselves struggling to focus and get things done. […]
What a Business Coach Is (and Isn’t)
Everyone needs advice now and then. Business owners are no exception- according to the Bureau of Labor in 2020, two out of ten new businesses fail in the first year of operations. This rate only increases year after year. Only about two thirds of businesses survive the second year and by the tenth? Seventy percent […]
It’s Time to Retire From Hustle Culture
“Hustle culture” is largely characterized by long hours, a breakneck pace, and an insatiable drive to develop any and every passion or idea. A 2020 article from ABC found that 40 percent of Americans couldn’t cover an unexpected $400 expense, signaling economic issues that lead to many people adopting a “side hustle” to pick up […]
We Entrepreneurs Need to Keep Calm & Carry On
You’re in the flow. You’ve dealt with all the curve-balls and adapted to them. You’ve reconciled with the new normal. And then a curve-snowball comes down the mountain at you and bowls you over. A tropical storm was my curve-ball this week. The day and week were progressing perfectly well until we sat down to […]
An English Degree is the Best Foundation for a Career
There are many misconceptions that come with being an English major. No – we don’t live in the library amongst stacks of old books, feeding off Shakespeare. No – we have not read all the “classics.” No – we do not always use perfect grammar and spelling, and we definitely do not know the definition […]