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Yoga, Cats and Women Entrepreneurs

Women run their businesses while handling the rest of their lives. It’s often a disjointed way to run a business, but it’s what we have. My morning’s yoga practice was a perfect allegory.

If you have cats, you know there’s a remarkable phenomenon that happens with a cat and a closed door. If the [...]

Focus and the Woman Entrepreneur

One of the business issues that keeps coming up for my women entrepreneur clients is that of focus.  As women, we are used to multi-tasking — cooking dinner with a baby on our hip while carrying on a conversation with the two-year-old playing on the kitchen floor, for example. When we open our own [...]

2009 Amgen Tour Gets to Santa Cruz

Some of my friends are braving the weather in Santa Cruz to see the 2009 Amgen Tour.  I’m not.  I admire these folks for making the 115.9 mile ride from Sausalito and vying for position on Bonny Doon road in the rain. I’d rather taste the wine from Beauregard Vineyards if I trek to Bonny [...]

Conflict and the Woman Entrepreneur

I want to get this on the table first. I hate conflict. My stomach clenches and I find it hard to breathe every time I know I have to confront someone about something. I feel like crying every time someone raises their voice to me or, heaven forbid, gets MAD at me!

My name is [...]