In our book, we talk a lot about creating your own definition of success. As an entrepreneur, it’s crucial to understand your own motivations and have a clear idea of what success looks like for you — otherwise it’s not likely you’ll end up achieving it. Anyway, I was tickled this morning when I received […]
Entries from August 2007
Succeeding on your own terms
August 29th, 2007 by Lauren · No Comments
Tags: Entrepreneurial Inspiration
Book Recommendation: Personal Finance
August 13th, 2007 by Emira · No Comments
Michelle Goodman recommended On My Own Two Feet: A Modern Girl’s Guide to Personal Finance a few months ago over at her site and I made a note to review it for the resource section of our book. I found the time to read a copy a few weeks back and have been meaning to […]
Tags: Resources for Women in Business
The Business Lady Ghetto?
August 13th, 2007 by Emira · No Comments
We’re in the final stretch of our book edits, and one of the many items on this month’s to-do list was to finish off our resource guide. Typically we would do most of research for additional resources online and at our beloved local library, but there’s a municipal strike in Vancouver this summer which has […]
Tags: Thoughts
D*S Biz Lady Nights: Vote For Locations
August 7th, 2007 by Emira · No Comments
Grace at Design*Sponge is looking to take her successful Biz Lady Nights on the road. If you’re interested, go vote for your city. Details:
Starting this fall i’m going to take the d*s biz lady nights national. the goal is to travel to five major cities this fall, winter and spring and host a meet up […]
Tags: Events
Taking the “Yikes” out of Public Speaking
August 3rd, 2007 by Lauren · No Comments
I’m one of those fortunate (or perhaps foolhardy) folks who has never experienced the sheer terror many people associate with public speaking. I attribute that lack of fear to my father’s vocation — he was a minister in the United Church of Canada, and so public speaking was an integral part of his job. Not […]
Tags: Resources for Women in Business
Striving for Email Zen
August 2nd, 2007 by Emira · 1 Comment
Through the Writer’s Revealed live chat this weekend (and by the way, it sadly looks like my “pearls of wisdom” have been lost to the internets) I had the chance to come across Lorissa’s blog, Lorissa is a boss lady in her own right, and has some great thoughts on work scattered throughout her […]
Tags: Business Advice






