Have you ever used a pressure washer on your driveway or deck? (And even if you haven’t, a friend probably has. And you probably know because they probably posted a VERY excited before and after on Facebook.) Can confirm: it is a very, very satisfying feeling. All that high-pressured water fires out of the spout at a […]
“I want to put myself out there more… but I feel like no one really cares.” ^ Ah, the self-judgement trap that literally every creative in the known universe falls into. (At least the ones who want to build more of a brand for themselves online.) And the reality is: when you’re just getting started? You’re […]
Launching is basically the Schrödinger’s Cat of marketing. It’s an approach to sales strategy that feels simultaneously dead and alive. Effective and broken. Useless and game-changing. Creating record profits, and record failures. Somehow everything, everywhere, all at once. My criticisms of the launch world have been well documented (and coincidentally read tens of thousands of times) — but it’s still a part […]
“Please don’t be mad at meeeee!” she said, holding yet another rat in her small, tanned hands. It was my senior year of college, and my soft-hearted roommate had had yet another run-in at the pet store. Specifically: another trip to Petco for rat food had caused her to discover yet another under-loved rat she simply had to bring home. (At […]
It won’t surprise you to know that I came out of the womb noisy. I arrived on this green Earth apparently screaming that I wasn’t ultra fond of being touched (these days I’m more chill, but I am incredibly ticklish), and intensely eager to look at/babble at everything. From an early age I was terrifying my parents with my unbridled extroversion. […]
It probably won’t surprise you to know that as a kid, I loved to perform. Chorus and dance recitals. Fall festivals. Spring musicals. Variety shows. Christmas pageants. You name it — if it meant being onstage under the spotlight, I was first in line to audition. (Granted, I was never very good. But rest assured: if there […]
