Hot Mommas who want to “do it all” often don’t have a choice. They HAVE to do it all. Caregiving is an example. I’ve witnessed my mother flying down to South Carolina every other week for months to take care of her aunt and uncle. My grandmother benefited from the care provided by all of my many local family members, and nurses who became adopted family. It matters to our… Read More »Awards for Caregivers/Top 7 Caregiver Resources
Esther and I are in San Francisco for the BlogHer 2008 conference. Okay, to be totally honest, we came out here for a party being hosted by Guy Kawasaki’s venture http://www.alltop.com/ and BlogHer. We decided to do this just last week. (Side Note: If you want to see why we like Guy Kawasaki, click here or here. Here is the link to the Alltop page where we’re listed http://moms.alltop.com/). This… Read More »Building a Million Dollar Business Part Time #9: How to Market_Networking Our Brains Out
We got our first set of sponsors for The Hot Mommas® Project 2008 Case Study Competition. This blog talks about who they are, and how we got them. The bottom line is RELATIONSHIPS. Pictured left is my son, Maxwell, and daughter Lilah who is traumatized by Maxwell hitting her with one of those noodle toys people use in the pool. If Maxwell could read, he would learn from this post… Read More »Building a Million Dollar Business Part Time #8: How We Got Our First Sponsors
In preparation for our 2008-2009 Hot Mommas Project Case Study Competition, we are focusing on ROLE MODELS. Do you or someone you know have a story to tell or lessons to share with others? Then get ready to write your own case. Our goal is to build the worlds largest women’s case study database for use in classrooms and women around the world. The top three winners will be published… Read More »Role Model Series: How to Do it All – Featuring Julie Lenzer Kirk
I also affectionately refer to this post as: “How to get s*&t done.” What are the big takeaways from today’s post?: 1. Focus 2. Focus 3. Focus Esther, pictured here (with our original business partner), and I have been religiously and regularly deploying the “F-word”: FOCUS, FOCUS, FOCUS. We have been very focused on results, and – unfortunately – not fun stuff like blogs. For the full post on our… Read More »Building a Million Dollar Business Part Time #7: How to Implement
This is the 3rd post of a three part series on Eastern Medicine – featuring the Chi Master in China in the Bill Moyers series – inspired by learnings at one of my favorite girlfriend getaways (click here for a favorite girlfriend getaway site): Green Valley Spa in St. George Utah.
This is a continuation on a series on Eastern Medicine inspired by a learnings by one of my favorite girlfriend getaways (click here for a favorite girlfriend getaway site): Green Valley Spa in St. George Utah. Today we have a guest author, Mike Rice, who is the spa’s general manager and teaches the meditation class out there. I will say, it is the only success I’ve ever had with meditation.… Read More »Eastern Medicine For Stressed out Chicks-Part 2: How to Meditate
Pictured here is one of the team members selected for the Hot Mommas Project competitive internship. My first thought is “YAY. The cavalry has arrived.” Albeit, the cavalry looks like a Barbie doll. (No offense Jen). Why do I – and why should you – love Jennifer? We love Jennifer because she represents HELP. And a lot of you out there – you know who you are – try to… Read More »Building A Million Dollar Business Part Time #6: Help Arrives
As an addendum to the first post on Eastern medicine for Stressed out Chicks – Part 1,I am rolling out our April book club selection – The Whale Rider and our June book club selection: Go Put Your Strengths To Work by Marcus Buckingham. The combination of the two books explore the topics of strengths, personal discovery, and leadership in two completely different contexts. Set in New Zealand, The Whale… Read More »Addendum: Got Chutzpah? Read These
This is part of a series on eastern medicine for major novices. First, readers, please accept my apologies for the gap in posting. Apparently there are quite a few readers as the founder of 'Holiday Golightly' informed me that the Hot Mommas Project Blog sent her a bunch of traffic from the April post on girlfriend getaways. So, thank you for reading. Shout out to Guy Kawasaki's www.Alltop.com which has… Read More »Eastern Medicine for Stressed Out Chicks-Part 1: Your Equation