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My Journey | What's On My Mind 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...
The Space Between the Umms…
I watched the video of my first speech on innerpreneurs only once. It’s all I could bear. All I heard were the umms… that seemed to follow my every sentence. In the moment, I felt calm but upon watching the video it is clear that I am anything but.
What is it that those umms… mean to me? Am I using them as a tool to help me think of my next thought? Or is it because I was afraid of silence?
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.
Happy Canada Day!
My hometown, Toronto — that’s the CN Tower, the now second tallest free-standing structure in the world.
When in Doubt, Take the Next Small Step
I made a mistake. I got ahead of myself. I temporarily forgot my purpose. I got caught up in someone else’s ideas and began ignoring my vision.
Perhaps it was a lack of self-confidence that began leading me down the path – I’d like to think it was a desire to collaborate, improve, share and help – whatever it was, along the way I stopped thinking that my voice mattered. I stopped considering what brought me joy and what felt ‘right’ and instead focused on what I thought I ‘should’ be doing. I am not infallible and I often go astray.
I am no longer involved with InnerpreneurVentures.com or Innerpreneuring.com.
Pride, Gratitude and Education in Lisbon
I should have told you before I left. I just got back from speaking at an entrepreneurship conference in Lisbon held by Gesentrepreneur, a company dedicated to promoting entrepreneurship in Portugal. I was invited to speak on Innerpreneurs. The video is coming soon. You can check out the slides here.
30 Unanswered Questions
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I got the idea from Dave Pollard author of the blog, How to Save the World. He got the idea from Beth Adams. Basically you sit for half an hour and write 30 thoughts/questions that enter your mind. It’s a fun exercise but beyond that I’m not sure what value it creates. I wrote my questions over Pho at my neighbourhood Vietnamese restaurant.
- What is the line between empathy and judgment?
The Weight of the World
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I had one of those days yesterday. One of those days where the sadness of the world seems to be weighing down on me. I expect you have them too.
On these days I wish I could turn off my beautiful gift for empathy. Sometimes I don’t want to feel everything so deeply. Sometimes I don’t want to hold the pain of others within me. Sometimes my own pain is more than enough.
We Have Found a Pulse
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As you may or may not have noticed for the past few days my blog has been offline. There was a problem with my host’s new software and it didn’t accommodate the code blogs are built on. They’ve now worked out the problem and have been very gracious in offering retribution for the issue.
The Reality of Dreams
I’ve always wanted to work myself. It was my dream.
It strikes me now how quickly dreams become reality and how quickly the euphoria