Interview with Brad Feld- VC, Entrepreneur & Marathon Man
Here’s my interview with Brad Feld, nationally recognized speaker on the topics of venture capital investing and entrepreneurship who writes widely read and well respected blogs at www.Feld.com and www.askthevc.com He also happens to be one of the most generous, intelligent and thoughtful dudes I’ve ever met. Brad shares his story of success and gives tips for finding work/life balance. And my favorite story about when things go wrong; “At least they can’t... Read More
It’s Never Too Late to Try Your Hardest
This is the 10th blog post in my screenwriting series, it all started here Day 21 – 19,092 words down I’m packing for the Sundance Film Festival! I can only imagine how disappointed I would be with myself if I hadn’t taken on this challenge and I was going back to Sundance without accomplishing much of anything this year. I am so friggin’ happy that I finished the first draft of my very first screenplay. One more look at the awesome-ness of the finished... Read More
Breakdown? Breakthrough.
*I wrote this screenwriting blog series about 6 months ago–it took me this long to get the BALLS to post it.* After years and years of building a business, I shut everything down last year. I pulled the plug and walked away. It was sucking the life out of me. I didn’t recognize myself anymore. Who had I become? I call it my Jerry Maguire breakdown. Breakdown? Breakthrough. It was an incredibly difficult decision, but I was finally free. It was exciting and terrifying.... Read More
Interview with Tony Heish, CEO of Zappos.com
“How to Build a Fabulously Successful Empire & Have a lot of FUN with special guest Tony Heish, CEO of Zappos.com” Under Tony’s leadership, Zappos has grown gross merchandise sales from $1.6M in 2000 to now upwards of $1Billion by focusing relentlessly on customer service. During this interview Tony shares the inspirations from his early days, lessons learned along the way and secrets every entrepreneur who wants to build a successful business & have FUN along the... Read More
Detox Update-Social Media Sabbatical, Day 30-ish
Social Media Sabbatical ~ it’s been 30 days since my last…. indulgence.:-) [if you want to read Part 1 of my Social Media Sabbatical, click here] Hi, my name is Sandy and I’m a Facebooking Twitt-aholic The first 2 weeks were the hardest. It’s really humorous to watch your brain as it thinks in 140 characters and status postings. I find myself wanting to take pictures of a beautiful dessert or a fabulous cocktail and share it, but where do I share... Read More
Social Media Sabbatical
So, I’m not entirely sure how I decided that I needed a Social Media Sabbatical, like, right this very minute, but I just asked my good friend Melani to change the passwords on my Facebook & Twitter accounts and had her promise not to tell me what they are, no matter how much I might beg and plead until next year. January. 1st. 2012. Whaaaaaa? How am I going to do this? I think I might be cheating already. Because I’m writing this before I’ve actually... Read More
It Ain’t About the Money ~ or is it?
Edward Burns. Portrait by Leslie Hassler. My daughter & I were singing in the car the other day (and dancing at the red lights) when this Jesse J. song came on. Price Tag. Have you heard it yet? (I posted the video & lyrics below for you) The first few lines of her song have been haunting me. “Seems like everybody’s got a price, I wonder how they sleep at night. When the sale comes first, And the truth comes second, Just stop, for a minute and Smile... Read More
Manifesting Mojo Tips
Hi, Here are my top 3 manifesting mojo tips- so you can Rock Your Manifesting Mojo- Baby! Grrrrrr- Oh- Beeehaaaave. Read More
Magical Weekend
Here’s the video from my magical, manifested weekend away. (if you want to see the crazy story about how I manifested this, check out my video “What’s On Your Vision Board?”) Here’s part 2 of our Magical Weekend… Magical Weekend Part 2 Read More
Book Proposal 6
This is the continuation of the writing process, creating the outline, getting your book proposal complete. Here’s the link to the 1st part of this video: Book Proposal 5 Read More
