An Interview With Doug Brown — Separate yourself from all outcomes. All you can do is set your clients up for success, the rest is up to them. Support them, hype them up, help them stay accountable…some of them will be wildly successful, and some of them might not be able to get past what’s going…

An Interview With Doug Brown — Discover what your customer is looking for and help them achieve it. Gather information about their wants and desires and you can make their events seamless. Understand their needs, identify their wants and anticipate their needs. As a part of my series called “Five Things I Wish Someone Told Me…

An Interview With Doug Brown — My life has been and continues to be full of obstacles and hard-times, so “never give up” is my motto. I have always believed that, with the right team and tenacity, there is a way to succeed. As a part of our series about strong women leaders, I had the…

… It is the experiences, the awareness, and the integration of the new awareness and learning that creates the shift. “It is not what you know, it is what you do with what you know!” and, I will add to that: who are you being when you do it. …

An Interview With Doug Brown — Find and navigate your river of cash. Join a business group to learn what you don’t know. Take an accounting course — a good one — and learn the basics of how to read a balance sheet, income statement, and cash flows. Design your business around the work, not around…

An Interview With Doug Brown — Have a great network. It is a lot easier to open doors for opportunities when you already have connections to that person or company. Never burn any bridges because you don’t know when you might cross paths again. As a part of my series called “Five Strategies I Used To…

An Interview With Doug Brown — You will never be ready, so go before you’re ready. It’s important to be prepared but work towards 80% ready and launch. You’ll never launch perfectly. It’s better to launch and learn. I did this with my first online course. …

An Interview With Doug Brown — Don’t devalue yourself. At first, it’s difficult to know your worth and express that confidently, particularly as a young female business owner. I was constantly devaluing myself or just giving work away. …

An Interview With Doug Brown — Listen to experts. You don’t, can’t and shouldn’t know everything. There’s a lot of free advice on growing consulting firms and a huge amount of literature. Listening also means to your clients. Most founders I coach rarely have a systematic way of listening to the clients’ needs. I don’t mean…