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Reflections on Milestones and Starting Over Again | Brunch on a Wednesday

It was a hot and sticky walk to the radio station for our 50th show. I was nervous. I'd actually been ruminating on this show since we decided to tackle this topic. 50 seemed like a good marker for the beginning of a new set of chapters for Brunch &…

Brunch on a Wednesday: Why a bad day doesn’t have to mean a bad month

We've all been there. You've been so good about your budget or your diet or whatever else you've restricted yourself on, and then one weekend it feels like it all goes to hell. You went to a party and ate three cupcakes instead of none, you walked into a sample…

Brunch on a Wednesday: How to overcome fear of failure

I've officially become a podcast junkie. I find myself browsing through Stitcher and iTunes to see what's trending and also find new podcasts when other podcasts talk about them. This is how I found Jerry Colonna's Reboot podcast. I listened to one of his episodes called, "You are Not Alone in the Fear," and…

Brunch on a Wednesday: Almost-Milestones

In a few weeks, Dyalekt and I will be airing our 50th radio show on Bondfire Radio. It's a pretty big milestone in a lot of ways. 50 is just such a nice big-sounding number in general and it marks almost a full year of shows, which is pretty exciting. Then I…

Brunch on a Wednesday: Not all the Tools, Just the Right Tools

I went to a financial planner training last week and the presenter, Bill Bachrach (he advises advisors on how to advise, so meta), asked a question about golf. Knowing nothing about golf, I started to tune out. He asked, "Ideally, how many clubs do you want to use to get your golf ball…

4 Things that Simultaneously Rule and Suck about Working For Yourself

This is the dream, right? Working for yourself and doing what you love, getting out of the rat race, quitting your day job - what could be better? Well, I'm about to enter Month 4 of being full time freelancer, and some of the things that are awesome about working…

Brunch on a Wednesday: On Going All In

I got an email today from the program director at Bondfire Radio (shoutout to Tasty Keish!) asking if I wanted to renew my contract for the next three months or the next six months. This time last year, Keisha had just asked me if I would consider doing a radio show.…

Brunch on a Wednesday: A Year of Experimenting

I'm entering month 3 of officially being a freelancer/entrepreneur/business owner. Is it awesome? Honestly? I don't know yet. I've worked for someone else my entire adult life. I took for granted the fact that there would always be someone there to double check my work, help me prioritize my work…

Brunch on a Wednesday: Making A Thousand Pots

Join me for Brunch on a Wednesday: the b&b biweekly and get this stuff straight to your inbox! I met with a client last week and one of my favorite stories came up during our b&b. A pottery teacher split her class in two. One half of the class was tasked…

Brunch on a Wednesday: On being treated like a person

We had Rus Garofalo of Brass Taxes on the b&b Bondfire Radio show a few weeks ago. He's an accountant who talked about accountant-type things, like what you could write off (and more importantly, not write off!), whether or not you should pay estimated taxes, all that good stuff. But…

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