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Building Quietly Is Not the Same as Building Slowly

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This essay is part of The Quiet Business Truths, a series on the beliefs behind building a calm, sustainable business. Start with the overview. There’s a special kind of quiet that settles over my office in the late afternoon. I have a disco ball pencil holder and light catches it in the afternoon, the dog gives up on me ever throwing the ball again, and the only sound is the small tick of the keyboard. On the good days, that’s when the real work happens. Not the loud work. The quiet work. For years I thought that quiet was a problem to solve. I’d watch other people in this industry and the message was always the same, even when nobody said it out loud. Be everywhere. Post daily. Show up on every platform. Launch loud, sell hard, keep the noise going so the algorithm remembers you exist. And underneath all […]

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Why I Chose the One Word I Used to Hate (My 2026 Plan)

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I have a confession to make. For a long time, whenever I heard the word “consistency” in the online business world, I flinched. Maybe you do, too. For creative, freedom-loving business owners, consistency often feels like a trap. It sounds like a rigid cage. It sounds like someone telling you that you must post on Instagram every single day at 8:00 AM, regardless of how you feel or what is happening in your life. It feels like a hamster wheel that never stops spinning. As someone who has rediscovered their love of focused, unrushed work, that version of consistency never appealed to me. In fact, I actively avoided it. But as I looked at my plans for 2026, which is pivoting my business from heavy technical work for clients toward mentorship and writing, I realized I had a problem. I wanted more freedom and less “feast or famine” stress, but

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That ‘ugh’ feeling

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I’ve been having thoughts and ideas rumble around in my head about how I want my business to look in the coming year. While I KNOW I have a lot of life left to live, I do want to shift where my focus is, and I want to explore things that excited ME. Here’s a snippet of what I shared with my biz bestie this morning: Had an interesting internal response when Monday came around in terms of “being back at my desk” after some time away. I had that kind of “ugh” I’m back at work today. This insight has really inspired the idea of moving away from specific client work – having recurring services like my Protection Plans and Hosting fits into this new vision, but needing to do “client work” UNLESS I can complete in one sitting really needs to be off the table.​What does excite me right now,

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Do you sense it too?

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If you celebrate a Happy St. Patrick’s Day, the day when the beer turns green, Irish Stew is on the menu, and you get pinched if you’re not wearing green. I guess I’m lucky since I’m staying home today and won’t have to worry about that. Today, I wanted to touch on something that seems to have stirred something up for others. Yesterday, I shared how my promotion of my Build Your Website course didn’t make a single sale last week, and yet I still made money because I was showing up. I also…

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It’s finally here!

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I’ve been thinking a lot about freedom and especially how it relates to creating a business and living a life. As the algorithms would have it, I’d also start to think that it’s all anyone is talking about. So many people in my sphere (or silo – all depending on how you look at it) are talking about freedom in some form or another. This got me thinking, I think so many people are talking about freedom and specifically how it relates to creating your own form of lifestyle freedom, because now…

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My business, my rules

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One task I have on my task list for the day is to sit down and write. That writing is often, what is sent to you as my morning musing. Not every day, but most days it goes like this: I sit down at my desk, take a few breaths, and then write. I write to see what bubbles up and if a message or an idea presents itself. I share what is happening in my business, the fun things I’m doing and even the struggles that come up as a solo business owner. In one of the groups, I’m in on Facebook, there…

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A different approach to Black Friday…

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Happy Monday, We had a great visit with the KID yesterday it was nice to have some time to spend with him to catch up in person. Since we started our nomadic journey, we don’t see him as much as we use to. Guess that’s what happens when you leave and have him take over the rental of the house we were living in! LOL! Anyway, I’ve been busy getting things ready for a new offer I am planning to share with you in the next few days. It’s will be an incredible deal for a special coaching offer, I’m…

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