by chala | Feb 9, 2015 | Ezines, Inspiration, Leadership, Marketing, Small business growth
After years of working on myself, I am fortunate to be in the place where I’m actually uncomfortable being comfortable. If I have lots of money in the bank, I go and spend it on a wildly scary new way to grow my business. So I’m scared ALL the time. I...
by chala | Jan 28, 2015 | Ezines, Inspiration, Leadership, Marketing, Small business growth
I lived through 2 clients having deep lows this week. They had come to the end of their limits of failure. They were feeling weak, vulnerable and defeated. These are strong, intelligent people who are very successful at most things. Yet they were both reduced to...
by chala | Jan 21, 2015 | Ezines, Inspiration, Leadership, Marketing, Small business growth
A few weeks ago, I got a shocking email: a friend’s young son was diagnosed with leukemia. He now needs a bone marrow transplant. The odds of a match are 1 out of 30 000. The donor can’t be anyone (I really thought hard about doing it myself!). It has to...
by chala | Jan 14, 2015 | Ezines, Inspiration, Leadership, Marketing, Small business growth
So said my new coach in an intensely emotional stand-off with a participant at this weekend’s event. The unfortunate woman was emotionally and financially bankrupt. She had lost a lawsuit, owing over 6 figures in damages. She had to shatter her daughter’s...
by chala | Jan 7, 2015 | Ezines, Inspiration, Leadership, Marketing, Small business growth
Happy New Year everyone! I wanted to greet you with a scary statistic..call me strange…Only 19% of people who make new year’s resolutions keep them for one whole year. Here are the other numbers according to the Toronto Star article: 19%: Less than 24...
by chala | Dec 16, 2014 | Ezines, Inspiration, Leadership, Marketing, Small business growth
I had one of the most interesting confrontations of my life at last week’s Canadian Association of Professional Speaker’s Conference. It was really illuminating and I’d like to share it with my fellow business owners who dare to blog, speak and in...
