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This summer, it’s hot as usual, and who wants to heat up the kitchen? That’s why in the summer, we do things a little differently, relying more on main dish salads, grilled foods and easy to put together meals and […]

On my desk, I have a cute little calendar, nestled snuggly between a coffee mug full of brightly colored pens and my trusty ten-key calculator (I’m a CPA). In addition to displaying the date, this cute little c […]

My latest tool for financial literacy is laughter.  Michelle Obama has been quoted as saying: 

“First you get them to laugh, then you get them to listen.”

If you’re funny, they will learn!”

So come on, […]

Once upon a time, a fair Maiden-on-the-cusp-of-becoming-a-Crone was floating about in her swimming pool when all of a sudden, she heard a soft “plop.”

Curious about what might make such a strange sound in the […]

Goals don’t determine our success, habits do. This shocks me. All the experts, gurus, specialist, masters tell us to set goals. We’re even told goals written down have a better chance of being achieved. But the […]

Stephanie Buduhan Stephanie is a lover of both words and numbers. With over 18 years of experience in accounting, she currently runs her own CPA practice in […]

Christie Eckler Christie is an innovative, results-oriented community advocate with a strong track record of performance in complex systems and purposeful […]

Babies suck their thumbs, kids pick their noses, teenagers yell at Mom, and some adults tap their feet or bite their nails. Habits, especially bad ones, are inescapable. As soon as we’ve quit one, another has f […]

I turned 37 this month. And while some years it can feel like there is much held in a birthday, this one seems like one of those regular old years. Now, don’t get me wrong, it was good in a million different w […]

“You never know how strong you are, until being strong is your only choice.”

Bob Marley

In January, in a conversation with a friend I was asked, “What is your word for this year?” Although I knew several […]

Strengths are things we do with ease which means they don’t feel like strengths to us. We don’t recognize our strengths because we don’t see them as big deals. We assume if we can do it, everyone can do it.  […]

Emerging from another glorious and exhausting graduation season, we take a deep breath and take a moment to congratulate the grads and all who supported them in their journey.  We have walked with our graduating […]

One of my favorite voices on the internet (@thelazygenius) is constantly reminding us to start small. Don’t fret about the big change or the big leap, but start instead with the tiniest most doable step toward b […]

One of the definitions of “strength” is “the capacity…to withstand great force or pressure.”  To many this would mean building up your biceps and thigh muscles to be able to stand as an unmovable wall against an […]

Dearest Reader,

This month marks twenty years since I graduated from the Canadian College of Homeopathic Medicine and began my business-building journey. It’s hard to write about this without using all sorts o […]

I haven’t been to the gym in months. I haven’t lifted 100 pounds in years. I haven’t competed in a bodybuilding competition ever. The first definition of strength in the dictionary is “the quality or state of bein […]

I’ve spent the last 15 years filled with seasons of diet cokes, 100 calorie this and that’s, two a day work outs, staving off hunger with water/caffeine/activity/watching the clock. My pride ebbed with every wav […]

Out of the blue, a friend of mine recently asked a group of us what the top thing on our bucket list was. My bucket list is all about places I want to travel to someday, so I said the Galapagos Islands. (I bet […]