As a chronically ill entrepreneur running two businesses, I know we all need to check ourselves to find the balance, rest, and enjoyment in life we need…even when we’re caught up in the euphoria of success. […]
Author: Hilary Lauren
Freelance Minnesota writer, author and die-hard word nerd, Hilary Lauren reads grammatical reference books in her spare time. She is the author of Killing Karl, a story about a career killer masquerading as an everyday man, and his wife trying desperately to love him. She also owns J. Hill Marketing & Creative Services, a digital marketing and editorial firm. She cannot stop writing. For there is no control over love. And that is what writing is…love. Like any other kind of passion.
Why Starting a Business Is Like Going Through the 5 Stages of Grief
When a loved one dies, you are thrust into an otherworldly existence. Your feelings ping-pong all over the place. You would risk anything to have your love back. Entrepreneurship evokes the same emotions, with one […]
How to Start a Business Without a Product or Service
When starting a business, one question needs to be answered in the affirmative: will my new company have a customer base? Maybe you don’t even need a product to begin. Lincoln Waters, Co-founder and CEO of […]
How to Live Like an Abundance Magnet
Half of you will hate this article. Because roughly half will be the pessimistic thinkers who believe that they are not participants in their own life. The glass-half-empty peeps will perhaps click on the title […]
13 Indispensible Skills of Chronically Ill Entrepreneurs
By the year 2020, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services projects 157-million people will live with a chronic illness. Many of those people have been forced into working for themselves. For me, it […]
How to Charge What You’re Worth and Why You Must Get Published
Yesterday, as happens cyclically in my business and in every business, it was time to button up a project. I detailed while Facebook IM’ing with a client that my role in the creation of their […]
3 Reasons to Appreciate the Hard Lessons in Business
If you’re like most every other entrepreneur out there, you have a story of disappointment to tell—times when your plans didn’t pan out. It doesn’t make you a failure. No, you, like many others, have […]