Pay From the Heart. And Mangoes
Recently I’ve seen questions from our beloved clients about sliding scale and pay what you can pricing. I interviewed my friend Tad Hargrave, and he said the most cogent things I’d ever heard on the topic. Briefly, you can’t use sliding scale and pay what you can approach to avoid your own money issues. But […]
How to Unfreeze Your Business Writing
I’m so grateful for last week. The U.S. Thanksgiving holiday, plus parent-teacher conferences, provided our family with a LOT of unscheduled time. Which. Was. Fantastic. I find that my life has high and low tides of scheduling. Sometimes my life feels very tightly scheduled with client sessions, teaching and team meetings, not to mention family […]
Learning New Things Without Losing Who You Are
While facilitating a variety of sessions recently, I’ve had volunteers up at the front of the room with me while we’ve worked through their business challenge with everyone watching. One woman, who was struggling to have enough clients in her business, brought my attention to a tension between “coaching” and “teaching” which has a real […]
Saying Goodbye to An Old Friend
I’m writing this from a really cute AirBnB studio in Victoria, British Columbia, where I’m presenting at the Bellyfit Summit in a few hours. I love Victoria, and Canada in general, which isn’t really a surprise since I live in Portland, Oregon, which happens to be Canada’s 11th province (or so I’ve been told.) In […]
What Words to Use to Ask Others to Promote You
To all followers of Judaism: L’shana tovah! For you, and for all of us, may this be a sweet new year. As you’re reading this, I’m in Edmonton, Alberta teaching with my friend and colleague Tad Hargrave. Then I’m off to Victoria, B.C. for the Bellyfit Summit and an event for Living the New Economy. […]
Anatomy of a Heart-Centered Sales Page
Note: A number of live events are coming up, including one in Edmonton, Alberta, Melbourne, Australia, Victoria, B.C. and Portland, Oregon. Crazy! If you’re in any of those places, check out the link- we’d love to see you there. Last week, the first week of kindergarten, was hard on the boys. Change of routine, new […]
Profitability With Sustainability
Here’s the truth: everyone here at Heart of Business is here to help your business succeed, which means making more money and bringing in more clients, each with our own flavor. Our practitioner Jason Stein has a particular take on getting to profitability. He’s been here at Heart of Business for over five years, and […]
Are you wearing a mask in your business?
You know, teaching as an Islamic Sufi Jewish (aka “Jufi”) spiritual teacher in the world of business, doing business healing and training, I’ve definitely been tempted to hide who I am at times. Thankfully, I rarely feel that way now, but it took time for me to sink into my own sovereignty about it. In […]
Confidence… through Humility?
I’m grateful that for years now Heart of Business has supported me and my family to take vacations, especially since we live so far from our boys’ grandparents, cousins, aunts and uncles. However, there was a first with this vacation: that I came back and everything was already taken care of. I was not buried […]
Heart-centered Hiring
Hey everyone! Lisa Young here, holding down the newsletter fort this week for Mark. He’s been enjoying a two-week holiday with his family, and returns today. We’ve all been busy bees in his absence – Steve just wrapped up an incredibly successful Open House for our Community, and we’re working on a bunch of projects […]