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Grow your business with flow!
Growing a business can be confusing and overwhelming. There is so much advice out there that we want to try it all leading to running in circles and exhausting ourselves.
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Cordes cuts through the noise each week to highlight how you can grow a business that will bring you the freedom and flexibility you started your business for.
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Boost Your Brainpower and Business Success: Strength training benefits for business owners
Discover the transformative power of strength training for women entrepreneurs—boosting brainpower, reducing stress, and achieving success!
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Unleashing Your Superpowers: A Guide to Planning for Success in Business
Discover how unlocking your unique superpowers leads to business success and personal fulfillment.
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Unleash Your Potential: Elevating Your Business with Balanced Work-Life Integration
Discover how work-life integration empowers women entrepreneurs, elevating businesses to new heights of success.
6 min read


Vacations: The Secret Ingredient for Small Business Success
Small business owners need vacations to boost productivity, rejuvenate and fuels long-term success. Read how you can make this reality.
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The Power of Joy: Why Leaders Must Embrace and Incorporate Joy into Their Lives
Discover the transformative power of joy in leadership. Learn how incorporating joy enhances productivity, engagement, and team dynamics.
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The Best Friend Factor: How Having a Bestie Makes You a Better Leader
Unlock your leadership potential by exploring the profound impact of having a best friend.
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Dangers of Microstress: What is Microstress, and Why is it Dangerous for Community Leaders?
Microstresses can take a toll on community leaders' mental and physical health. Learn strategies you can take to avoid these pitfalls.
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How to Implement Effective Strategies for Burnout Prevention in the Workplace
Increase retention by using these strategies to prevent burnout.
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Why do leaders need to understand burnout?
Learn to recognize and prevent burnout by focusing on your humans before your KPIs.
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Burnout, Compassion Fatigue, and Mission-Driven Leaders
What do these three have in common? A lot! Chances are, if you serve in an organization with a social-impact mission, you have some...
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Anxiety is a Habit, and Habits can be Broken
Just to be clear, I am not a psychiatrist or a psychologist, but I have talked to plenty and read many of the books (even excerpts of the...
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Stop working so much, and start a hobby!
The human brain can only focus for a max of 4-5 hours a day. Before the industrial revolution, work took a much smaller focus of people's...
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Happiness Happens Challenge Day 17
#HappinessHappensMonth For today's challenge, put your hand on your heart! Why put your hand on your heart? Warm, safe touch anywhere...
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Happiness Happens Challenge Day 10
To increase your wellbeing, try a mantra.
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Happiness Happens Challenge Day 9
#HappinessHappensMonth For today's challenge, wear a piece of colorful clothing! Years ago, I came upon this verse... Dress festively...
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Happiness Happens Challenge Day 6
#HappinessHappensMonth For today's challenge, weed your garden! Why weed your garden? gardening seems to alleviate anxiety, depression,...
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Happiness Happens Challenge Day 4
#HappinessHappensMonth For today's challenge, pump up the volume! Why listen to loud music? According to a study conducted at Manchester...
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Happiness Happens Challenge Day 3
#HappinessHappensMonth For today's challenge, savor something! So what does it mean to savor something? According to Vocabulary.com:...
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Happiness Happens Challenge Day 2
#HappinessHappensMonth For today's challenge, do something that brings you joy. Maybe it is something as simple as blowing bubbles (I...
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Happiness Happens Challenge Day 1
As the Society of Happy People declare August the Happiness Happens Month, I have a challenge for you each day this month.
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