2018 was a year of radical transformation for me. When I realized the odds of me dying this year from Cystic Fibrosis were relatively minimal, I set out to find myself. At the beginning of the year, I was building and scaling Landmark Makers, a recruiting services firm dedicated to helping smaller businesses scale through […]
Power to Persuade: How to Tell Stories that Sell
Story telling is one of the most underutilized persuasive techniques in our culture. This isn’t just for sales people, it’s for anyone who has to face rejection; the novelist searching for a publisher, the marketer building a brand, the entrepreneur looking for venture capital, the student raising money for the soccer team or the parents […]
The Power of Story Telling in Sales
I read a quote once about how entrepreneurship is believing in a vision that nobody can see but you. Do you have that vision? Is there someone close to you who constantly ridicules you, makes you feel inferior, questions your big picture, says something isn’t possible? We all have them. There are all kinds of […]
The Most Romantic Proposal
I’ve been the kind of girl who has wanted to get married since…well… since the day I put a white dress on my Barbie and made her enthusiastically say yes to Ken before darting off in their pink jeep on the way to the Barbie play house. For me, always ambitious, I never felt “complete” […]