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Jun 13, 2017

Why we are so scared of network marketing!

It's a pyramid scheme! Oh one of those things! Don't open friend requests through messenger, it's probably a pitch! Many of us have been there, heard that, said no or avoided the situation, and moved on. I never thought in a million years that I wou...

Jul 04, 2017

Work hard, play hard, but work smart!

Are you someone who has always known you wanted to do things differently? I've always been a bit of a dreamer, or at least that's what they call people who question why we all do what we do. A philosophy professor in my first year of university said...

Jul 21, 2017

Be the Entrepreneur you are Inside. You've got this lady!

So if you're like me, at times you feel alone in the world even surrounded by people, you feel like you’re not enough, you feel guilty for always thinking there has to be a better way, you feel like you’re spinning out of control with your thoughts a...

Aug 09, 2017

Why I Don't Wear Stilettos to the Oilfield Anymore

If you’ve ever been in professional sales as a woman you can probably relate to this. It is super competitive so you use any advantage you can to stand out. For me, a pencil skirt and great pair of heels were part of my ability to get in the door so ...

Aug 28, 2017

How Social Esteem Will Make You Pick a Job Not a Life

There I was, making six figures, successful by most standards, but totally unhappy with work, trying my hardest to push that feeling away that kept screaming "I want to do something else!!" If you have a successful career but walking away from it sca...

Sep 19, 2017

The Struggle is Real ~ Work or Stay Home? What if I Want Both?!

Before my kids were born, I was someone who blindly assumed I would never give up my high paid career, but there was a little voice that I wouldn't listen to which told me I might not know what I was talking about. It reminded me that I couldn't be t...

Oct 18, 2017

#Metoo Is Not About Taking a Stand, It's About Starting a Conversation!

A lot of us read the #metoo post and automatically said YES, let’s talk. It’s still early days for it so I have no idea how it will all play out on social media but yesterday I saw a woman I know post that she wished people would stop posting #metoo ...

Nov 14, 2017

Are You in the Top 4% in Your Industry or Do You Plan to Be?

What do Lawyers, Realtors, Corporate Executives & Network Marketers have in common? 4% go to the top! Look at stats if you’re into that kind of thing. Roughly 4% of people make it to the top. 4%!!! It doesn’t matter which industry you’re in, if you ...

Jan 29, 2018

I'm an Entrepreneur but Chose Intrapreneurship. Why?

What’s the biggest reason you feel trapped in or won’t leave your job? Time, risk, resources….. same old. I’ve always been an entrepreneur at heart I always get excited by new ideas, see ways to improve things, think of ways to work smarter not har...

Feb 15, 2018

How a Game of Whack-A-Mole Explains your Self-Worth

When you were a kid, did you go to the fair, or an amusement park or games room where the had the good ol' game 'Whack-a-Mole'? I realized yesterday while I was working through a bunch of crap in my head (again) that it kinda describes the experienc...

Apr 10, 2018

Why I Choose to Work (a Different Way)

There is always so much struggle about whether we go ‘back to work’ after having our kids. It’s like the great divide. Go back or stay home. Those are the options. No one considers that you can change it up completely. When it’s a decision of either ...

Apr 25, 2018

Online Business I Can Work from Anywhere? I’m in!!

Online Business is the way the whole world is headed It's easy for any of us to see that it's taking over. We are starting to buy everything online and it is only becoming more popular every year. It's convenience in a super fast paced world for cons...

May 02, 2019

Be Unapologetic About What You Want

Sounds nice doesn’t it? Here’s what I’ve learned over my years so far. I can’t please everyone. I don’t know if it’s my age, or that my ‘give a sh*t meter’ has gone way down, but I am no longer living the way other people think I should. Opinions ...

May 09, 2019

I Was Scared to Be the Real Me Online!

My husband Reece called me out big time the other day! Of course I was totally defensive at first, but by the end of the convo I realized he was so right. There I admit it, he was right.....once, ha. He said “Mare, if you could show up online as eve...

Sep 14, 2019

Work a Different Way, Live a Different Way!

You grew up hearing you needed to go to school and get a good job right? That was the so called ‘success’ formula in our society and its what we saw our parents’ generation do. So you did it, and worked your butt off climbing the corporate ladder, ...

Jan 20, 2020

Stop Giving Yourself Crap!

Did you know that you are functioning on autopilot 95% of the time?? Most of what you do (or don’t do) happens by default every single day. You shower while thinking of all the ways you can change the world, you arrive at work and don’t even remembe...

Feb 10, 2020

How to Get Out of Corporate and Create a Life You Love!

Imagine if you got into a business and life you actually loved?!! No really, without the standard eye roll, dare to dream for a second. Imagine what your life could look like if you went after something different in the next year. What could it look ...

Mar 02, 2020

Do you feel like maybe we've been doing it wrong?

This whole life and raising kids thing I mean. We are so privileged in our society, yet we're looking under every rock and around every corner for the key to health and happiness while we are literally running ourselves into the ground. We can’t do i...

Mar 14, 2020

It's ok that you don't know how to feel right now!

Right now none of us do. It's ok that you feel a little scared. It's ok that you feel a little overwhlemed. It's ok that you are sad or worried or unsure. We are all going through moments of all of this too. Because we've never done this before. But...

Mar 21, 2020

Calling all #wildhearts

Dear dreamer like me.... Our time is now. This is a superbowl of sorts for us. We are the diggers, the ones with grit, the ones who will make the most impact. Yesterday was a completely different world. It will never be the same as it was. There is a...

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