5 Business Lessons from failing Kilimanjaro!

Last month I started 2014 with a bang and conquered Kilimanjaro. I did not reach the highest summit, but I did have an awesome experience! Although last year was pretty exciting (check out my review), I had a lot of downs in my personal life. In order to challenge myself and take my business and life to the next level,

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Must-Read Business Books for 2014

I know of people who have earned business degrees and figured that’s about the extent of education they need to run a successful business. Always an avid reader, I have learned much more from books and lectures outside of formal education than I have from the degree courses I have completed. You see, formal studies involve theories and ideas. That’s

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Best 15 Posts of 2013!

Hi Empire Builder! What a wonderful year it’s been! This year has been the beginning of my blogging journey and here are the top posts I’ve written over the last six months… Lots of love, inspiration, motivation, business and transition tips… 1. I am a Women 2. 71 Perspectives on Why Fear is Awesome! 3. 6 Business Lessons From Losing

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25 Business Lessons and Life Lessons from AIESEC

A month ago I had the wonderful opportunity to chair an AIESEC conference after five years of being missing in action. It was amazing to reflect on and realize how much I have grown after my five-year investment into AIESEC.  AIESEC has been the major defining factor of my success because it gave me loads of opportunities to fail… yes

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Banish Unproductive Work Habits and Get to Work B*tch

Everyone is in the race for being more productive. We all want to do more things, want to achieve more things? Have you ever walked into the office in the morning, with all the best intentions to conquer a massive workload, just to face one distraction after the other all day and leave the office feeling deflated and with an

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Business Stress: 6 Things You Can Do When You Feel Stressed or Down

Being in business for yourself, by yourself is super-rewarding, however, it can be rather stressful. Sometimes the load just seems too heavy… What do you do when your clients are unhappy, or pull out of deals? You stress of course! Well, that’s one option, at least for a very short while. But then it’s time to count to 10, slowly,

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Email Marketing Psychology: 5 Things You Miss When Are List-less

And 5 Tips For Creating a Kick-Ass Email Marketing Subscriber List During my exchange year in Vancouver, the only job I could get was a fundraising job on campus where I would spend 20 hours/week cold calling alumni to donate money to the to help current students on financial aid. Being  on financial aid myself, was really curious how it

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Increase Your Rates with These 3 Tips

Steps to Increase Your Prices (Without Losing Clients, Freaking Out or Feeling Guilty About It) This is a question I get asked all the time and in my experience, one of the main reason is that many women do not value the service that they’re offering.  This undercharging is predominately due to their their lack of confidence. This happens to all

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