For Creators

“When your self-worth goes up, your net worth goes up with it.” – Mark Victor Hansen For 9 years, I practiced law. When I quit my job about 2 years ago (you can read all about why I quit here), I was verrrryyyy happy to say goodbye to that career. But I’m so thankful I have my legal education and experience because I use them almost every single day as a professional content creator, photographer, and blogger. And today, I want to share a story about how I used them to strike back when someone blatantly (and illegally) used one…

I left my full-time career as a lawyer after 9 years to jump, feet first, into the unknown. At the time that I left law to blog and create content on a full-time basis (which still sounds flaky as hell to a lot of people, I might add), influencer marketing was new. I wrote all about why I decided to quit my job as a lawyer in this blog post. In it, I explained that when I left, I didn’t have a solid plan. I hadn’t saved in preparation for quitting, I hadn’t mapped out what my first year as…

Would you consider yourself to be left-brained or right-brained? Analytical or creative? What happens when you are both? And as an entrepreneur, which one is better? Left Brain vs. Right Brain People whose dominant side of the brain is the left side are said to be more logical and analytical. On the other hand, those whose dominant side is the right side have been said to be more artistic. The prevailing thought is that creative people aren’t, by nature, analytical and vice-versa. I disagree. I’ve always thought of myself as having one foot in the professional/analytical world and one foot…

Community over competition, right? In theory, yes. In reality, not always. Last Sunday, I teamed up with 2 blogger friends to host our first live session on my Instagram account. One of the themes that came up in the questions from our followers before and during the discussion was the issue of cattiness and cliques in the blogging community. Unfortunately, the issue of frenemies and blogger cliques is not new. As much as the blogging world may seem like an incredibly happy place filled with sunshine and rainbows and messages of women supporting other women, there are cliques and there…