the Caffeinated entrepreneur™ How Bad Do You Really Want It? Read on my website / Read time: 6 min I didn’t expect buying a new home for our family to involve scooping water out of a toilet that’s been disgusting for at least a decade, and yet here we are. My husband and I put an offer in on a foreclosure property back in July, after months and months of house hunting. You’d think getting an offer accepted would mean we were finally getting somewhere, but buying a bank-owned foreclosure...
2 days ago • 4 min read
the Caffeinated entrepreneur™ What Makes Someone Say: “Take My Money”? Read on my website / Read time: 7 min Have you ever noticed how quickly you’re willing to pay someone when a problem you’ve been mildly irritated by suddenly becomes incredibly painful? There’s a reason dentists have emergency appointments: Apparently we’ll spend weeks chewing on the other side of our mouth before we decide to do anything about that tooth. Then suddenly we can’t eat ice cream without seeing stars, and...
9 days ago • 5 min read
the Caffeinated entrepreneur™ The Dream You Don’t Believe Is Possible Read on my website / Read time: 8 min I haven’t traveled for work in years. Between three kids, school commitments, RV life, and my husband’s job as our family’s primary provider, disappearing for a few days to think about my business hasn’t exactly been a regular option. So when I had the opportunity to spend three days at my business coach’s mastermind retreat this past weekend, I was downright giddy. And I had plenty to...
16 days ago • 6 min read
the Caffeinated entrepreneur™ The Superpower I Wanted Would Have Stolen the Best Part Read on my website / Read time: 4 min My 10-year-old son asked me a question in the car the other morning that he took very seriously: If I could have any superpower, what would I choose? I thought about it for a minute, and my answer came quickly. Teleportation, obviously. I want to get where I’m going now. I don’t want to spend an hour and fifteen minutes in the car dropping kids off at school…only to do...
23 days ago • 3 min read
the Caffeinated entrepreneur™ It Only Looks Obvious AFTERWARDS Read on my website / Read time: 5 min For seven months, I ran two versions of my business at the same time because I was too scared to shut one of them down. One was making dependable money and draining the life out of me; the other was exciting, unproven, and being built so close to real time that my clients would ask for something on one call and I would spend hours making sure it existed by the next one. In January 2025 had...
about 1 month ago • 4 min read
the Caffeinated entrepreneur™ When Your First No Becomes a Character Flaw Read on my website / Read time: 6 min Last Friday, I shared a post about my brand – the coffee, the pink, the gnomes, the faith, the strong opinions, and the fact that when someone hires me, they are getting all of my expertise and experience, but also all of ME, including my passion, my heart, and my “aggressive helpfulness.” Then someone left a public comment that was complimentary…right up until it wasn’t. She said...
about 1 month ago • 4 min read
the Caffeinated entrepreneur™ Commitment Starts When The Fun Stops Read on my website / Read time: 6 min Earlier this week, I recorded a podcast episode with a host I’d done a webinar with a couple of months ago. He invited me back to tell my story, which is something I’ve done enough times that I can usually pull out whichever chapter makes sense for the audience. I can talk about starting my business three and a half years ago while my family was launching into RV full-time life. I can talk...
about 1 month ago • 5 min read
the Caffeinated entrepreneur™ What Would It Take for Your Clients to Work With You Forever? Read on my website / Read time: 7 min A tiny part of me wanted my client to stop learning so fast. I know how terrible that sounds, especially coming from someone whose literal job is to teach people how to think more strategically, build better systems, and use AI without creating a fresh pile of digital chaos. But on a call last Friday, there I was, watching one of my favorite clients get better and...
about 2 months ago • 6 min read
the Caffeinated entrepreneur™ Old Habits Die Hard (Even When You Know Better) Read on my website / Read time: 6 min Either this was a coincidence, or God has a very specific sense of timing. I’m writing this newsletter live on Tuesday, which is what I do every week because I want to share what growing a business as a solopreneur actually looks like from the messy middle, not six months later when the lesson has been polished into a neat little success story. This week, we resurfaced Episode 2...
about 2 months ago • 4 min read
the Caffeinated entrepreneur™ Are You Done Or Just Discouraged? Read on my website / Read time: 5-6 min A few months ago, one of my clients told me she was about six months away from shutting down her business and going back to a W-2 job. And I don’t mean that in the vague “business is hard” way people say when they’re having a rough week and need a nap, a snack, or possibly a full cry-it-out reset (I had one of those just last week and it really felt truly amazing). I mean, she was truly...
2 months ago • 6 min read