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From the monthly archives:

December 2009

2010 Theme

by Michelle Barry Franco December 31, 2009 life overall

Every year on both my birthday and New Year’s Day, I commit to a theme. For me, it feels more appropriate than a resolution. A theme allows me to be successful at various levels of attention and engagement. After all, it simply must thread throughout the year. It doesn’t have to OWN the year. My [...]

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Strike While the Iron is Hot or Rejuvenate for the Big 2010?

by Michelle Barry Franco December 24, 2009 business planning

The last month has been full of advice from various bloggers on how to properly set forth into 2010. Their arguments are good. The only problem is, they convince me of opposing approaches: A la Chris Brogan, I should “strike while the iron is hot”, whereas my friend, Nancy Jane Smith, makes an excellent case [...]

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Sell Your Soul

by Michelle Barry Franco December 17, 2009 Contribution

Selling your soul sounds so sinister. (Say that ten times fast!) Yet, the products of our soul are so amazingly brilliant, why would we not share them with the world? Seriously – it seems wrong to keep them too close, hidden and hoarded. To me, it feels like our responsibility to bring our brilliance to [...]

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What Is Your Expression Élan?

by Michelle Barry Franco December 17, 2009 branding

There is power in naming. It gives you a reference, a quick-check for behavior and other decisions. We name lots of things: our feelings, our taste in furniture, our business focus. Yet, we rarely name our style of communicating. I don’t mean whether you are an introvert or extrovert – I mean the personality – [...]

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Seth Godin is Giving It Away

by Michelle Barry Franco December 17, 2009 messaging

Seth Godin is just so good. Seriously, I am so often amazed at his cleverness. This very cool FRE’E eBook is no exception. In it, you’ll find many pages of brilliance by extraordinary thinkers, writers, marketers, geniuses… such as Penelope Trunk, Martha Beck, and Bill Taylor – and so many more. They are riffing on [...]

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Contribution

by Michelle Barry Franco December 16, 2009 entrepeneurialism

There is a lot of pressure out there to find our life-passion/life-purpose. I use the  word passion often when I talk about Brazen Soul business. Our tagline is “communication for the passion-driven entrepreneur”. Passion is a big thing for me – and I’m not alone. You see stuff about passion and purpose everywhere. For some [...]

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Say What You Mean – and Be Care-Full

by Michelle Barry Franco December 15, 2009 messaging

Yesterday I attended a private author’s reception held at The Loft for Lorelei Shellist. Lorelei just self-published a soul-revealing book called Runway Runaway about her love affair with Steve Clark, who was the guitarist for Def Leppard. It’s about lots of other things too (drugs, sex, survival, modeling, growth, spirit…), but her romance with Steve [...]

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Lose Your Elevator Pitch

by Michelle Barry Franco December 9, 2009 entrepeneurialism

When is the last time you actually made eye contact with a stranger in an elevator, much less exchanged meaningful conversation about your respective businesses? Seriously, the Elevator Pitch is a useless concept for most of us. Here’s the real scenario that we all run into regularly – the one for which we really need [...]

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Bedtime with Papa Business/Life Takeaways

by Michelle Barry Franco December 8, 2009 entrepeneurialism

My dad raised six kids, with my mom. But mostly, my dad worked and my mom took care of us kids and the house. My dad was definitely involved and present – I’m just saying that they had a pretty traditional marriage. So, it was quite pleasantly surprising when my dad agreed to our 5-year-old [...]

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It's ALL about the story!

by Michelle Barry Franco December 8, 2009 selling

Our girls’ caregiver is leaving for Spain in January. She has taken extraordinary and loving care of our three daughters for over a year and a half, which is a long time in the lives of our 5-year-old and younger babes. We are both sad and thrilled for her. She is a smart, fun, and… [...]

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