I’m a small business owner twice now. My two businesses are drastically different in some ways, and similar in others. The common denominator is me, and I use my personality and skills in both of them. When I started my first business, a real estate brokerage, I didn’t think much of just doing it. I figured out what I needed …
Owning a business is by far the most joyful thing I do in my life outside of traveling. The two are intertwined for one of my businesses, so I have the best of both worlds. It wasn’t an accident that I got here, though some of it leading up to it would appear that way. I’ve always been entrepreneurial and …
When I was growing up, I saw that owning a business was a very normal thing for the people around me. Almost every member of my dad’s family (his siblings) owned their own business. And I thought that it was how the world of business worked. No one had huge business, yet everyone was financially comfortable. They all had (for …
According to ChatGPT, the definition of an entrepreneur is someone who identifies, develops, and manages a business venture, taking on financial risks in the hope of making a profit. Being an entrepreneur myself, it’s so much more than that small definition. I’ve been an entrepreneur since I was a kid, always identifying needs and coming up with solutions. My first …
The dating scene has turned into an interesting place to exist. As someone who has been single on and off for 30 years, I’ve seen a lot and I’ve turned down a lot of people. I’ve also said yes to a lot of people. Today’s environment is particularly fascinating, and I’d attribute that mainly to social media and dating apps. …
Dating. It used to be something I enjoyed. Before I got married (for the second time) in my mid-30s, I went out on dates all the time. They weren’t complicated, and I didn’t meet these guys on dating apps because the apps didn’t exist. If they did, no one I knew used them. Fast forward a decade, and the art …
When we are little, we want to be grown. When we are grown, we realize the realities of being grown come with a lot of responsibility and it becomes not quite as fun. As I’ve gone through adulthood, I have decided to become more playful and fun, and it’s just because I can. I’ve learned how to have fun as …
I’ve been single and I’ve been coupled throughout my entire life. Now, after two divorces under my belt, I’m not in a rush to get into any type of situationship, coupleship, or marriage. I’m not interesting in dating. I’ll never say never to anything, but for now, I’m happy to be single and not super ready to mingle. My earlier …
We’ve mostly all been there. A negative environment or situation that we wonder how we let ourselves get into. One day we wake up feeling depressed, down, fraught, or any other feeling word that you can think of. The reality is that we cannot control anything outside of ourselves, but we absolutely can control our actions, our mindset, our next …
Friends have always been part of my life. Much of my youth I had them because of proximity and nothing more. The kids that lived across town from me were a treat to spend time with outside of school because our parents rarely wanted to bother toting us from one house to the other. It was easier for them to …
