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It’s Ben Silbermann from Pinterest.com. Ok, so I may be a *teeny* bit biased in this opinion, as Ben grew up in the Des Moines area like yours truly, but his talk at the ThincIowa event last week was casual, honest, informative, and fascinating. For someone who self proclaims that “No one cares what we’re […]

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What kind of “gal” am I?

October 26, 2011

I just watched a webinar that made several of its points by sharing example after example of personal stories. All of them were great, actually, and really added to the understanding and purpose of the presentation. However, they were all introduced as, “John Smith, The Word Guy” or “Jane Doe, Mrs Spreadsheet” or “Suzie Homemaker, […]

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1. Start a business. 2. WORK REALLY, REALLY, REALLY HARD. 3. Quit your job. — Don’t kid yourself into thinking that you can skimp on – or skip over – Step 2. —

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It’s true. I am proud of this industry. I’m proud that I’m a part of it, I’m proud that it offers people the chance to take control of their life, and I’m proud that I successfully built a business that allowed me to do that very thing. Also, I like this guy. Eric Worre. He […]

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Think Different

October 7, 2011

Go ahead. Be weird. — [If you can’t see the video, click here.]

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Work Into Life: How can I help?

September 29, 2011

In need of a bit of inspiration, I was flipping through the past few months of scribbles and scratches in my notebook a couple days ago when I ran into this: “Some of us choose to work for a living, and some people choose to incorporate work into living.” -@petershankman I’m not sure where I […]

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Choices

September 22, 2011

It’s easy to do, many things are. It’s also easy not to do. That’s the tricky part. ‘It’ meaning, well…everything. Which side will you choose? Reasons for doing something are often identical to the excuses for not doing them. Reasons versus excuses is really just a point of view. A choice. I don’t have any […]

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There are many, many reasons why, at the age of 25 without any previous business experience, I chose to the industry of network marketing. But part of explaining why I originally chose NM is elaborating on why, now 5 years later, I still choose to be a part of this industry. That is the part […]

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