The other night I was throwing a little pity party for myself. Some friends who have “regular” jobs were all heading to Cork & Olive for the monthly Sip and Dip. It’s such an awesome event; you try wines, eat some food from a local restaurant and mingle with neighbors and friends – and I [...]
I came across a great list of acronyms and pulled some for us texting and twittering chicks.* Enjoy! AFN – That’s all for now BBL – Be back later BTW – By the way DIS – Did I say EM – E-mail F2F – Face to face GJ – Good job HAGD – Have a [...]
I tried out for “Who Wants to Be a Millionaire” recently, as did fellow biz-e-chick Jenni McKay. (See Jenni’s blog entry about it here.) It’s funny how an audition for a game show can be a lot like daily life. Here are a few little life lessons that were reinforced at the try-outs: 1. Go [...]
Recently, I found myself with a free evening – nothing scheduled, nothing planned. Exciting, right? A full night to do absolutely anything I wanted. I had all kinds of fun ideas for things I could do: paint my nails in my new color, Rainy Day Red; do an at-home honey facial (read about it in [...]
We talk a lot about business goals at our biz-e-chicks meetings. We spend time making lists of our goals for the next week, the next few months, even the next year. What we don’t do at our meetings is concentrate on our personal goals. I think this is something we should do in the future, [...]
Motivation. Why is it so difficult to find some days? Today, for example, I don’t have anything planned; I’ve actually scheduled today as a biz-e-chicks day. I guess that means I do have something planned, if you want to be picky about it. You biz-e-chicks know what I mean, though. A day when you don’t [...]
We are one well-connected town! Apparently gone are the days of one networking event a week. This past week alone, we biz-e-chicks attended not one, not two, but three of them! The first was on Tuesday, After Five Networking, sponsored by Tampa Bay CEO magazine. (How fun is it that we women entrepreneurs are CEOs?!) [...]
So, I’m twittering. This gives Summer endless delight, as it’s something I said I would not do. (I also said this about Facebook and did not stick to that either, so she expected me to succumb to the peer pressure sooner or later.) Yes, fine, I do see the value in Twitter now. Most of [...]
Most, if not all of us biz-e-chicks are on Facebook. We love to see and hear what our fellow peeps are doing, even if we only have a couple minutes to check our favorite social networking site. Status updates are the best at keeping us connected to one another. We may not have time to [...]
How I started …
It’s 11 p.m. on a Monday and I’m still working … in my PJs … that I slept in last night. Welcome to the exciting life of an entrepreneur. Back in 2006, I worked in my cushy government job in the public relations department for a county library system. I say “cushy,” because supposedly it [...]