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Journaling for business: A path to real growth

By Renae Gregoire

Before we get into the journaling…Do you know why the work of building a business is so hard?It’s because we’re building something from scratch.We’re creating something that, at one time, existed nowhere but in our hearts and minds.This may sound blasphemous—it did to my heart when the thought first arose—but creating and running a business […]

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What’s your talk trigger?

By Renae Gregoire

This is post #1 of my book-to-blog experiment; read the previous post, about the inspiration for the project, here. What’s your talk trigger? Is there one thing about you or your business that makes customers talk about you? If so, that might be your “talk trigger,” a term coined by Jay Baer and Daniel Lemin in their […]

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A Book-to-Blog Experiment

By Renae Gregoire

Trying to increase two habits I long for: reading and blogging time. Hey there. I’m Renae, an online business owner since 2002. Running and growing that business, along with raising a family from toddlers to college students, has taken up much of my time — including my reading and blogging time. And even though my reading and blogging time […]

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How are you? I’m looking for opportunities.

By Renae Gregoire

A small change with big consequencesWhat do you say when people ask you how you are? “Hey there! How are ya?!?” If you’re anything like me, you say things like:I’m fine, thanksI’m exhaustedI’m super busyI’m tiredOne day, when I was Zooming with my accountability buddy during our weekly call, I responded to his, “How are you?” with, […]

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Luminous writing: Holy crap, that’s scary!

By Renae Gregoire

Let me be luuuuuuminousEvery day during the 30 Day Blogging Challenge, I’m drawing a set of cards from my soon-to-be-available Blog Post Inspiration Deck. One of the cards today is luminosity. Luminosity. Luminous. I love that word, both the sound of it … luuuminous … and the diverse images it brings to my mind. Like … a sunbeam, […]

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How to blog: Start with a hunger to help and inspire

By Renae Gregoire

Dear blogger, in your posts I see your beauty, your brilliance, my callingAlthough this post is part of my 30 Day Blogging Challenge, I’m not just bringing these words, sentences, and paragraphs into being to satisfy some requirement or complete a challenge I set for myself.  Yes, those two things are important, but the real reason […]

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My three words for 2018

By Renae Gregoire

My three guiding words for 2018What word or words will guide you in 2018?I follow and am in a group coaching program held by Christine Kane, who has a FABULOUS and in-depth Word-of-the-Year Discovery Tool.  Last year, I used that tool to find my word for 2017, which was CHOOSE.I’m not sure what happened to the word […]

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