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Easy Mind Mapping Tutorial

Are you a visual, hands-on person? You might find mind mapping to be a useful tool. Mind mapping can be used to organize your thoughts and ideas, improve your understanding of different concepts, and group ideas together so they are all in one place. The best part is, mind mapping doesn’t need to be a …

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How to Organize Your Home Office: 15 tips

Grab your FREE home office checklist now Get your FREE home office checklist: Perfect for solopreneurs! Success! Now check your email to confirm your subscription. There was an error submitting your subscription. Please try again. Email Address Yes! I want this Powered by ConvertKit Do you feel rather disorganized with some aspect of your home …

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Top 10 Self-Editing Tips for Authors & Freelancers

Grab your (free!) freelance writing project checklist now >> Get the freelance writer’s checklist: This fillable checklist can be used for all of your freelance writing projects! Success! Now check your email to confirm your subscription. There was an error submitting your subscription. Please try again. Email Address Yes! I want this Powered by ConvertKit …

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10 Ways to Overcome Writer’s Block

Whether you’re a freelance writer or a book author, we all tend to struggle to get the words on the page at some point or another. There’s no doubt that it can be difficult to figure out how to overcome writer’s block when it crops up. But luckily, it’s not the end of the world! …

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What burlesque dance class can teach us about business

In summer 2017, I began taking burlesque fusion dance classes on a weekly basis (and pretty soon I increased it to twice a week). Since then, I’ve performed on stage three times… and I love it. It is hands-down one of my favourite things to do! As I was preparing for our most recent live …

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Aftermath of a Business Partnership Break-up

In mid-July this year, my business partner Dan “broke up” with me, for lack of a better term. He realized that he no longer wants to be a business owner and that he was more interested in the benefits of working from home/being one’s own boss, rather than the actual reality of it. Fair enough. So …

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Romance Novel Writing Process

Back in July (right around the time that my business partner broke up with me), I made a drastic change: I decided to finally take action on something I’d always wanted to do but had never prioritized. I decided to write romance novellas. And since I began writing those books, I’ve had a lot of questions about …

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A Year in the Life of Candid Conversations: book launch!

Dan and I started our small business podcast, Candid Conversations, in March 2017, and pretty much exactly a year later, we went on an undetermined hiatus. What goes into the making of a podcast? Who did we interview, what kind of stories do they have to share? How did our podcast lead to the creation …

Improve time management with these 7 questions

Managing a freelance business can be overwhelming for a number of reasons, but one of the biggest is that so many freelancers have no idea where they should spend their time… and, as a result, they end up wasting a lot of time. But no more! Ask yourself the 7 questions in this blog post …

How to automate your small business: step-by-step guide

You know you could save time and work more efficiently by streamlining and automating aspects of your small business… but how do you go about doing that? I’m breaking it all down for you in this article to teach you exactly how to automate your small business! Automating and streamlining processes in your business is …