You’ve Launched, Now What? — What to Do When You’re Stalled in Your Business & You Need to Course Correct In the Creative Launch Cycle, the purpose for looking at your results is to evaluate where you are when it comes to reaching your objective. (Angel Investor Evelyn Simpson talked about using money as a tool to see what you’re doing right and wrong in your business. …

Around this time last year, I was finishing up my coaching practicum. Or, more truthful to say, I had 53 hours of a 100 hour practicum left to complete. I wasn’t finishing it up, I was watching the deadline roll in and paralyzed with fear that I wouldn’t be able…

Two years ago when I got my Reiki certification, my teacher explained a number of principles of energy healing to me. “First of all,” she said, “you do not do the healing. The healing comes through you. You are not the source, but the channel.” “And as such, you do…

Here’s a story about navigating — and getting lost — in the wilderness. My step-dad was an experienced backpacker and would lead two, sometimes three families out into the high sierras for a week of backpacking. It’s a lot of responsibility, getting people prepared to survive out in the elements…

My parents divorced when I was quite young — about three, and my mom remarried my step dad a few years later. By the time I was seven years old, my dad was taking us on back-packing trips into the high sierras. At first I hated it — carrying the…

People often ask me how I had the courage to move from my home town in San Jose, California to a small town in Turkey. It’s a love story, but it almost didn’t happen. I was engaged to marry a tall, dark, handsome Turk that I’d met in graduate school…

Last week someone in the Creative Impact Studio community asked about startup funding, so I used that to start a discussion on startup funding, asking how other women in the community have funded the startup of their companies. Community members have mentioned a number of different options including: Bank loans …

As found and facilitator of the Creative Impact Studio, I interact with women leaders every day. I speak to women leading companies, teams and movements that are making our lives better through products, services, apps, books, films, programs and ideas that they are bringing into reality to improve the way…

I love my job. I get to work with inspiring women leading the companies and teams and movements that are making our lives better. These women are highly educated, highly intelligent, highly accomplished and have big visions. They are Fulbright Scholars, award-winning filmmakers, and bestselling authors. They are thought leaders…