by chala | Mar 18, 2015 | Small business growth
Unrequited love..a pretty word for a very ugly feeling. Yes, I lived it. In fact, it was my first experience in the whole game of boys and girls at the tender age of 14. His name was Ian. He was my lab partner in Computer Class. We laughed so hard together. We hung...
by chala | Mar 11, 2015 | Inspiration, Leadership, Small business growth
Marketing with Luxury It’s not how it sounds people, we’re both married. It’s more about the night I spent inside Donald’s mind at his hotel (sans Donald in the room) this week. I must say I was really impressed. Not because it’s an...
by chala | Feb 19, 2015 | Small business growth
I was conference coaching at the SOHO Toronto Small Business event this past month where I had the pleasure of coaching small business owners 15 minutes at a time. Almost all of them unanimously agreed that their biggest problem was lack of new clients. Most of them...
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...
