Get Inspired

If you’ve read “The Tipping Point” by Malcolm Gladwell, you’ll know that there are particular roles valuable in creating fads or social epidemics. After reading that book, I realized I am a “Maven” or “information specialist”. I love to accumulate knowledge and share it with people. I’ll be updating this as I find new things to share. Send me anything awesome that you’d like to share, too!

The Internets

IttyBiz – Marketing for Businesses without Marketing Departments
IP Law for Startups – Fellow coach and lawyer, Jill Hubbard Bowman, helps you help yourself.
Dave Navarro, The Launch Coach – Not the guitarist. Helluva smart guy. Good guidance. As one client pointed out, he can be a bit direct and in-your-face, so may not be a good match for everyone.
Code Barrel – A project I’ve been helping my cousin with. Has nothing to do with business or coaching.
Ann Alger – artist, illustrator, inventor of the Cooler Coaster.
Angela Lauria - marketing genius (Nimble Cricket), publisher (Journey Grrrl), social media coach.

The Written Word

I’ve handily added these (plus several more) to an Amazon widget in the sidebar. Go forth and purchase!

Expecting Adam by Martha Beck – This book started me on my path towards embracing that which is magic.
Steering By Starlight by Martha Beck – This one started me on my path towards living an awesome life and becoming a coach!
Finding your own North Star by Martha Beck – Lots of words. Good words. Important words. Great book.
If I’m So Smart, Why Can’t I Lose Weight? by Brooke Castillo – practical, no-nonsense and effective tools for achieving your natural weight.
Does This Clutter Make My Butt Look Fat? by Peter Walsh – Helps establish the connection between house and body clutter and tools to address it.
Borrowing Brilliance by David Kord Murray – Nothing is original. Tools on how to innovate on already awesome ideas.
Style Statement by Carrie McCarthy and Danielle Laporte – Your Style Statement are two words that embody how you show up in every part of your life. Phenomenal tools/
Blink by Malcolm Gladwell – we make snap judgements all the time and generally are right on the money with our first instinct. Which we then ignore.
The Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell – How does an epidemic start – social or otherwise?
Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell – Success isn’t some elusive thing determined solely by brains and genetics. Gladwell explores what really helps determine success.
Freakonomics by Steven D. Levitt – Makes economic principles fun and accessible while drawing parallels between the seemingly unrelatable.
Switch – The Heath Brothers help you to change when change is hard. LOVE this book!
The 7 Secrets of Synchronicity – a little woo-woo, but worth it!
Women Food and God – Changed my life. Truly. Cannot believe how she so perfectly articulated everything I’ve been feeling and not realizing that is what I felt. Go, Geneen!
Bird by Bird by Ann Lamott – one of the best books on writing there is. Yes, I ended the prior sentence with a preposition. So sue me.

Articles

Focusing Your Business Energy: Strategy for Success or Limiting Box? - an article by yours truly on Owning Pink.
“Get Out of Your Head, Get Into Your Life” – What does Jessica Steward know for sure? Check out my interview for dailysuccessdeals.com.
The Willpower Paradox – “Setting your mind on a goal may be counterproductive. Instead think of the future as an open question…”
The Future of the American Dream – “What do you promise people who have been told they can have anything they want, who are repeatedly congratulated for living in the best of all possible circumstances? How do you tell them “the good times,” as we have known them, are not coming back? Americans need a new vision that helps them deal with reality, a promising story of the future that helps them let go of the past.”

Videos

Ninja Cat – This cat cracks me up. Seriously.
Simon Sinek: How great leaders inspire action – This TED talk helps us understand what it takes to be a great leader.
Dan Gilbert asks, “Why are we happy?“- This TED talk explores the intriguing idea that choice may make us unhappy.
Brene Brown on “The Price of Invulnerability” – This is another TED talk. It’s a goodie.
Jill Bolte Taylor on Her Stroke of Insight – Dr. Taylor discusses the miraculous insight she experienced when her thought and speech function were inhibited by a massive stroke at the age of 36. We are not our thoughts!
Joseph Nye on Soft Power – are TED talks the best or what?

Check out my videos on Youtube and Vimeo. Highlights below.

Cooler Coaster - My demo/promo video for my friend, Ann’s consumer product – The Cooler Coaster. Part 2 Video is here.
What I Really Want – by yours truly.
Campfire Tales: Scary Stories We Tell Ourselves – also by yours truly.
“You” Roulette: Unmasking your Authentic Self- My first video blog!

Other Stuff that Tickles My Fancy

Pick Up Sticks Jewelry – I’m a girl. I like jewelry. I like jewelry that means something to me.
Lisa Leonard Designs – custom and inspired jewelry. Yeah. More jewelry.
Studio Fran – yeah yeah yeah. More jewelry.
Mindmeister – for all your right-brainers, my favorite mindmapping tool is Mindmeister. I am an affiliate. If you want to check it out, you can make up to 3 maps free and then you can purchase and make a sister a dollar or two! I love love love this product.