A Kiwi In Kona

The actual official day of moving to The Big Island was focused on a soon-to-be-Hawaiin French Bulldog. This was more complicated than you would think, but he was a non-negotiable, just like reef-safe sunblock. 

We’d been up since four am, doing tasks related to leaving the rental, so I was tired and tense at the airport. Standing in the queue to see the agent about loading our bags had me box breathing and repeating one of my mantras: there is enough time, money, and love, over and over.

I forgot to tell people - we moved to Hawaii!

Goodbye Seattle gloom; it's aloha from now on. 

The few people we did tell have been kind enough to ask how it is going. Rather than trying to remember what info and photos I had sent out, I'm chatting with you here. Questions are welcome, including how we ended up here and the process.

You are welcome to read the short blogs, which are a sort of diary, or if you are opt-in(you should see a pop-up), they will be delivered like post cards nto your …

Kia ora (hello in Kiwi)

On Thursday, I came out of the closet live on LinkedIn (thank you, Micha Goebig) and declared myself a compulsive spender.

An ex-shopaholic. 

Huh?

Well, twenty-four years ago, I stopped using alcohol or anything else that affected me from the neck up.

Alcohol sucked as a solution to deal with inner turmoil and was causing a ton of problems. 

Around ten years ago, I realized I was using money as a way to avoid emotional pain. 

Yup, just like alcohol. 

I tried to fi…

I was on Andrea Heuston's Lead Like A Woman podcast recently.

Big fun.

It won't be released until March, but she has plenty of other awesome guests to listen to, like Congresswoman Nancy Mace and Hope Zvara, CEO of Mother Trucker Yoga. 

As well as asking me why I have had 35 different jobs, she asked me what was the best business advice I had every received. 

Spoiler alert!

Here's what I said. 

"There is enough time, money and love."

One of my mentors, Suzy told me that. She wafts serenit…

I just found a really cool way for you to realize how amazing you are & meet new female friends, and it's so much fun!

My other half got an Oculus for Christmas, but I've been playing with another software instead as it leads to meeting other awesome women,

Imagine LinkedIn meets Choose Your Own Adventure meets Girl Scout badges.... and with that, those really great talks when you meet a new friend and within minutes you're sharing the real stuff in your life, not just the edited version that …

Kia Ora (hello)

Just in time for the holidays....when I realized 28 of my podcast guests, all women, all amazing, had written books, or published a magazine, or created cards to help with grief, I added a page on my website to showcase them. 

If you go to this page, you will see categories such as business & inclusion, fiction, curls & calories, mindset and relationships. 

Subjects range from returning to work, how to find your soulmate, why people buy, why you need a LinkedIn Business Page,…

Kia ora (hello) , 

Last week I wrote about some of my hacks for those days when everything seems in the too hard basket, or you want to have more freedom to dash out on the deck on the rare days Seattle is sunny in winter. 

This week, here's a few of my business hacks if you're just starting out as a solopreneur, or if you'd like to. If you have been in business for a while, I'd love to hear you solutions, let me know and I'll add them to an upcoming resources page. 

Templates (also good for …

Some days I can conquer the world. Other days sending an email seems in the too hard basket.

I mentioned this to a group of women friends and guess what? Their energy is fluid too - but life still needed us to show up. We could hold a summit on why women are held to different standards, but for now, here's some of my hacks for when I can only be a part time human. They all come under delete, delegate and defer. 

Some of these require buying your time back, which isn't possible for everyone. Ho…

I was just told I’m a minor celebrity in a community in Moscow.

Bet you didn’t know that!

So, here’s what happened.

I belong to a peer-facilitated recovery program (you’re welcome to message me confidentially and ask me more).

There are many to choose from, but one I have been closely involved with for the last few years has to do with the repercussions of not having a healthy relationship with money. It completely changed my life and led to me living in Seattle, but that’s another story.

A…

My birthday was last week. I had an absolutely wonderful day filled with love and yellow flowers to combat Seattle grey and me being stuck in bed after having feet (yes, both of them) surgery.

I also got a lot of weird marketing pitches. Does that happen to you? 

OK, I can deal with my orthodontist and optician sending me birthday texts. They obviously have a system and think this counts as customer engagement (i.e. maintaining our...not sure what to call it. Mutual dependency?) And if you're …