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REAL Secrets & TRUE lies - why connecting works!

The day I turned 30, I slipped on the icy back porch & joked my hip was broken because I was now so old.

The entire month leading up to that day was filled with DREAD & WORRY. I left my birthday party early to pout & sulk - like a total jerk.

I held SO MANY expectations for my 30s - mostly that th...

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The Technology No One WANTS - a story of email BS & lies

I’m sitting among 80+ college freshmen in a giant lecture hall at SUNY Fredonia, my undergrad alma mater.

It’s 1988. Dr. Chilberg’s my favorite professor - from up in the nosebleed section, I see he’s rocking big dark glasses & a salt-n-pepper closely-cropped afro.

But even from far away, I feel h...

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Put Down the Firehose: 3 tips to help your audience digest your message

Here’s this week’s helpful take-away so you don’t have to scroll to the bottom. šŸ˜‰

We think we need MORE…

What we actually want is BETTER.

Would you believe me if I told you, for your business - & life - you don’t have to do MORE to make it better?

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Here’s what MORE looks like:

šŸŽ‰ The...

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Am I too dumb to do marketing?

If you haven’t figured out how to attract clients, it’s not your fault.

There’s a lot of OMG-are-you-seriously-freaking-doing-that! marketing tactics out there you’re probably avoiding.

So much so that some people tell me they’d rather stay stuck where they are than grow a business because they HA...

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Blobby Brown is helping me write this

It’s basically summer here. 46 degrees on February 23 in Syracuse, NY!

Like a total badass, I walked around all day without a coat or socks.

My desk, facing 3 giant, ancient windows, is cleared off- ready for work.

These windows are 115-years old - and if you stand close to them, you’ll feel your...

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What happened when Real Erica showed up

Doubt crept in. And Erica was hiding.

She had the perfect excuses, -ahem, I mean reasons- to NOT grow her business…

Not enough time. Not enough know-how.

But the NUMERO-UNO reason she lurked in the shadows of her own business?

It's terrifying to be seen.Ā 

You get it - what if someone sees you &...

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