May 29, 2024

Strengthen through Self-Employment: 3 Unique Benefits You're Guaranteed to Get

May 29, 2024/ Maggie Karshner

Anxieties about starting a business abound. Strategic-thinking folks like you seek to distinguish legitimate fears from illegitimate anxieties. What many don't realize is that the outcome of self-employment is not success. Yes, that could be one of the outcomes, but it's not the only or even the most valuable. As I reflect back from my 10th year in business, I share three key outcomes I see all my clients benefit from. I hope my perspective will help reinforce your confidence. And - for those not yet started - encourage you to launch your business!

August 29, 2023

How to Thrive Through Doing: A Guide for Conquering Challenges

August 29, 2023/ Maggie Karshner

This article delves into the common dilemma where meticulous planning meets the unexpected trials of implementation. Discover how embracing the process and seeking external perspectives can empower entrepreneurs to navigate the uncharted waters between knowledge and action.

June 27, 2023

4 Pitfalls of Toxic Masculinity to Overcome for Business Success

June 27, 2023/ Maggie Karshner

Explore the risks of toxic masculinity in entrepreneurship and discover four traits that can undermine your business dreams. This article delves into the importance of open-mindedness, embracing humanity, active listening, and agility in overcoming these traits. Learn how breaking free from toxic masculinity leads to a thriving and inclusive business environment.

February 24, 2023

Don't Let Rejection Plunge you into Despair! How to Prevail with Resilience!

February 24, 2023/ Maggie Karshner

This month's blog article is perfect for those of you who want to face rejection without catastrophizing. Rejection is the biggest hurdle for self-employed businesses. Self-employed business owners like you CAN have a more resilient attitude toward rejection. I'll provide a framework by using Daniel Pink's book, "Selling is Human", to analyze the rejection. I'll apply this framework to understanding a personal experience of rejection. Take rejection in a positive light and used it to improve your skills, rather than view it as a failure.

January 30, 2023

Decolonize Your Business: How to Shift Your Beliefs and Thrive

January 30, 2023/ Maggie Karshner

Small business owners miss many opportunities for "being the change they wish to see in the world." You could be doing more to make change happen. And these actions could be easy and from within your sphere of influence! In this article, I'll illuminate how to spot these opportunities as well as three key skills that will help you move from stuckness to action.

November 22, 2022

Want to Have Balance? Here's How to Find Calm and Confidence Now!

November 22, 2022/ Maggie Karshner

Are you struggling with feelings of anxiety or confusion and want to calmly and confidently pilot your life or business toward balance? This blog article is written for mindful, self-employed business owners who want to feel confident and balanced in their businesses. Allow me to illuminate a key element of how balance works, and the relationship between time and money. After reading this article you'll have tools to navigate business and life with more confidence.

September 21, 2022

The Success Myth and the Four Factors You Actually Need to Know About

September 21, 2022/ Maggie Karshner

What would it be like to work at a comfortable pace? What would it be like to work like that while achieving success? In this blog article, I dispel the myth of hard work and share the four factors that actually contribute to success.

July 20, 2022

Caution and Grit: How to persevere through the hard times of self-employment

July 20, 2022/ Maggie Karshner

If you're just here for the train wreck: hear about my hardest day in business. If you're in it for the learning, then you'll find a silver lining that will make you dive into self-employment asap!

June 21, 2022

Honor Your Body: How is Self-Care Fundamental to Self-Employment?

June 21, 2022/ Maggie Karshner

You love learning, growing, and self-improvement. But what about "not-doing"? Do you love rest and make time for it, or do you treat it like a luxury or treat? Downshift out of "frantic" and give yourself permission to take care of your body's needs.

November 22, 2021

How to Master Motivation by Being Grateful

November 22, 2021/ Maggie Karshner

A gratitude practice is a powerful way of positively reinforcing and cultivating motivation in your life.

October 29, 2021

3 Lessons to Help You be a Good Self-Employed White Person

October 29, 2021/ Maggie Karshner

For white people, it can be challenging to maintain the momentum of an anti-racist practice. When we think of anti-racism work in our self-employed business we often get even more stuck. Here’s a little update on my own practice and the huge shot in the arm it took over the summer!

May 26, 2021

Is self-employment the best way to change the world?

May 26, 2021/ Maggie Karshner

This is a salve for all self-employed people who've felt an internal conflict between your ethics and our capitalistic system of commerce. It may seem you need to sell your soul in order to go into business for yourself. But in actuality, being self-employed is life-giving and world-changing.

April 23, 2021

How to Get Good at Money: Build the Skills You Need for Self-Employment

April 23, 2021/ Maggie Karshner

I don't know who's promoted the idea that business owners are universally good at money. We're not. And even then, those of who are good at it, it's not because of a god-given talent or anything. It's because we learned it. Being "good at money" is a complex set of skills that are rarely taught, but are totally learnable!

December 16, 2020

Seize the Holidays with this Terrific Vacation Strategy

December 16, 2020/ Maggie Karshner

How do you have a good vacation? Especially when there's nowhere to go? I've got the answer. It's called an email sabbatical and it's about to revolutionize your work/life balance.

November 19, 2020

How to Shift Internally to Make the Best Decisions

November 19, 2020/ Maggie Karshner

Decision making is a challenge for anyone, but the stakes are the highest for business owners. If you're tired of fretting, stressing, and wondering if you made the right choice, I have a solution. It's not a quick fix, but by turning inwards you can find your own repository of wisdom. Read on to learn how to take the first step!

June 30, 2020

How to Become a Breakthrough Productivity Machine Today

June 30, 2020/ Maggie Karshner

You got to the heart of your motivation by reading Breakthrough Productivity: How to Motivate with Your Heart. Now you want to really conquer that task list. In this article, I cover a few key strategies that can help us get out of our own way and really get things done!

May 27, 2020

Breakthrough Productivity: How to Motivate with Your Heart

May 27, 2020/ Maggie Karshner

Productivity can be elusive at times. It can be easy to skip this fundamental step: identifying why. If we don’t know why we’re doing the things on our to-do list, we’ll lack all motivation to be productive. Start here on your productivity journey. In next month’s article I’ll cover how to use this foundation to really take off!

April 30, 2020

How to Stop Wondering If You'll Start Your Business

April 30, 2020/ Maggie Karshner

Many of us have the idea to start a business, but few of us even try. What’s getting in your way? In this article, I clear the path from a common source of hesitation.

December 16, 2019

How to Get Quality When What You Have is Quantity: Networking for Extroverts

December 16, 2019/ Maggie Karshner

Networking often seems to come naturally for extroverts. But being a people lover doesn’t mean that networking doesn’t still come with pitfalls! In this article, I tackle the overwhelm and impersonality that can often plague extroverts so that you’re cultivating high-quality connections and not just a high quantity of connections.

October 29, 2019

What Are You Telling Yourself?

October 29, 2019/ Maggie Karshner

You’re probably already talking to yourself whether you notice it or not. If you say more supportive things, you’re likely to go further. Learn how!

Apr 21, 2025

Self-Employed and Stuck? 4 Parts of Marketing You Actually Need to Know

Marketing is a big umbrella that covers many, many different things. When coming up with a marketing plan, it can be difficult to focus in on the aspects of marketing that you really need to learn about. This article is for any aspiring self-employed business owner who wants to do it right. This overview will help you to understand all that's involved with a marketing plan, and help you zero in on the stuff you need to learn about.

Mar 31, 2025

Beat Your Weaknesses: How to Win as a Unique Self-Employed Business Owner

If you've never felt insecure when comparing yourself to others, this article isn't for you. For the rest of us normal people, we need to explore this and how it's impacting our current or future businesses. It's vital for self-employed businesses to understand their competitive advantages and disadvantages. But trying to understand this usually gets us stuck, demoralized, or frozen. Let me reframe competition and the dis/advantages of your business so that you can more easily succeed.

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