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Innerpreneurship Articles
How We Got Here: Becoming a Cultural Creative
The four steps every Cultural Creative takes to find their own truth.
Marketing to Innerpreneurs & Cultural Creatives
Discover the keys to practicing mindful marketing and connecting with your fellow Cultural Creatives.
How Culture and Consciousness Intertwine
When it comes to consciousness, there are really two forms that exist, absolute consciousness and relative...
How Do You Define the Achievement of Success?
A few months back I was helping to design the header graphic for a new blog that was being launched. The blog's...
Marketing vs. Advertising vs. Public Relations: An Analogy
Do you have trouble understanding what the heck the difference is between Marketing, Advertising and Public Relations?...
What Being an Innerpreneur Means to Me (And Only Me)
I’ve said it before and I’m sure I’ll say it again, I did not make the word Innerpreneur up. I was only drawn to it...
The Forms of -preneurship and Your Personal Brand
If we look at -preneurship as a term used to describe our personal brand, what form of -preneurship best communicates...
“Pay What It’s Worth” is Not “Pay What You Can”
As a practitioner of Pay What It’s Worth pricing, I see the business approach of asking a client to pay-what-they-can...
Choose Your Own Character
As this new chapter, a new year, begins I'm considering the story I am writing, and whether the character I'm...
What Icarus Can Teach Us
Do you know the Greek myth of Icarus? Icarus is the son of Daedalus who dared to fly too near the sun on wings of...
The Power of Relationships
Every relationship you develop, from the most casual to the most intimate, serves to help you become more conscious....
Exploring Our Money Shadow
This is an excerpt from my upcoming book from Integral Publishers, Pay What It's Worth: You Don't Need to Set a Price...
You’ve Got the Mind of An Entrepreneur Whether You Like It or Not
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It’s true
No matter what you’re doing, whether you’re a therapist, coach, or artist, if you’re selling products or services, you’re an entrepreneur. It’s a mindset, not a title.
An entrepreneurial-minded person comes up with creative avenues to generate income. It doesn’t matter how they do it or what they know when they undertake it. All that matters is that they are building a system to make money.
What Tune Does Your Business Sing?
Think of your web presence as a radio signal. It is constantly sending out a frequency.
The frequency is determined by your online content — the words, images and feelings you express online.
And like a radio signal, people gravitate towards and listen to frequencies that they connect with. Frequencies that share their worldviews, interests, needs and desires. People tend to listen to frequencies that are similar to their own.
Holy Shit! Can We All Hold Hands?
I’ve been thinking a lot about community in the last few months.
My pondering really got going with a phone conversation with Tim Bursch a few months back. He’s a guy that understands the value of making connections and helping people. He had some really interesting ideas for fostering more Innerpreneur interaction online.
I’m more the solitary type.
But I launched the Innerpreneur Forum… with little personal understanding of how to cultivate conversation there. I’m not so into community. I know very little about fostering community. I’m know about connecting one-on-one. I’m just not gregarious (definition: fond of company).
Quite simply how your business can work best
It wasn’t so long ago that I thought…
I came from a Modern upbringing where art was appreciated but certainly never encouraged as a profession. I attended business school, worked in corporate marketing (albeit in tech, music and the performing arts) and was driven to write only when my world seemed to be falling apart.
Until a little over a year ago, I would have never identified my Self as Creative for I felt I lacked the talent, the ideas, the whimsy. I saw my Self as level-headed and practical girl and because I was basically good at everything, I felt I had a gift for nothing.
They’re All Going to Laugh At You
It scares me to stand behind the word Innerpreneur.
As much as it connects me to you, and encompasses my views on business, life and everything in between, I am conscious of how the word, a word that references that which is within us, appears to others.
Do you experience the smirks?
Perhaps in your social life spirituality is an open topic but in mine it is not. Reading this blog is more a window into my soul than most people get.
Enough About Me, What About You?
I’ve created a forum…
… a place online where we can exchange our ideas and views. After more than a year of just me talking (okay, I let others talk a bit;) I think it’s time for the innerpreneur community to have more of a voice.
It’s Not ‘Hippie’ Business, At Least Not in the Way You Mean
Somewhere in between the stereotype and the truth
‘Hippies’ are often associated with a removal from ‘the real world’. They’re blissed out, unaware of the true realities of how our society actually functions. It’s all planting trees, doing sun salutations and blowing bubbles.
Often times their points of view are far left, viewing economic and political freedom as an evil — seeing it as the source of most of the world’s problems. The corporate drones must be stopped. Unrestricted wealth pollutes absolutely.
The Video: My First Presentation on Innerpreneurs
The Scene:
A small auditorium of 100 business men and women in a business park outside Lisbon. Most are Portuguese entrepreneurs and venture capitalists.
I am on the Entrepreneurship panel with three other speakers. A mayor passionate about sustainability from Ericeira, Portugal and two bio-technology innovators.
The Speech:
I was more dynamic live, where you could see my slides too. They really drove the presentation. And it distracted the viewer from my nervous rambling.
My intention was to highlight why people (specifically the business community) should care about innerpreneurs.
Connect, Then Sell
How can you sell to someone you don’t even know? How do you know you can help or add value to their lives when you don’t even know their problem?
Get to know your prospective client before you tell them what they need. Build a connection, understand their challenges, show that you respect them as an individual. No one appreciates being treated like a walking $ sign.