Tag Archives: entrepreneur

Letters, cards and notes can go a long way

I have always been an advocate for sending handwritten notes and—when that can’t quite work out—writing personal messages to friends, clients, collaborators and project partners whenever possible. As was the case for many, my grandmother was big on writing cards in response to everything. While I spent my 20s much more disorganized than she, I—though admittedly imperfectly—somehow held onto and […]

Networking through an improv lens and with an eff it attitude

After reading my thoughts on networking last week, my friend Rachel Flehinger told me that a lot of the concepts that I covered are ones that come up in her classes. Rachel, a longtime improv veteran, teaches classes that incorporate improv into situations that entrepreneurs, small business people, and corporate folks run into day to day. She […]