Three years ago today, I was working at my last catering gig. It was a gigantic wedding in a beautiful yard, but it was catastrophic from the beginning – starting with when I had said yes to working the event when I wanted to say no. I said yes, because I wanted to be helpful, … Read more
Last September, I could feel myself shifting, growing. My business was growing, and my energy was changing. It felt as though my consciousness was being pulled out of my head and my ability to charge forward in spite of myself, and traveling down through my feet, into the ground beneath me. Traveling beneath the soil, … Read more
Two years ago today, I started working for myself full-time. The day before I started went full-time in my business, I found myself elbow-deep in food debris as I hurriedly washed dishes at my last catering gig. I remember the sudden awareness that I could not longer do things the way that I had done. … Read more
Over the next couple of months I will be sharing the sweet, brave stories of women that I admire who are doing beautiful work in the world. The very first of these posts is written by the powerful and delightful Esmé Weijun Wang – so I totally adore and am really pleased to welcome to my … Read more
Once upon a time, my mornings started like this… Wake up to alarm clock set really early – even though I worked for myself, at home. I would rub my eyes blearily while checking my email from my horizontal position. Since I hadn’t yet defined my boundaries in my business, I would inevitably come across … Read more