{MOB Monday} Summer Work-At-Home Solutions
As far as summer days go, today has been as close to perfect as I think we’re going to get. I got up early & had a productive work session (I completely built a new site for Urban Bliss Media....
View Article{Top 10 Tuesday} Top 10 Things I Learned About Running a Business By Being a Mom
Ahh, kids. They teach us as much (if not more) than we teach them. Here are the Top 10 Things I Learned About Running a Business By Being a Mom. Would love to hear your additions too! [image by Olivia...
View Article{MOB Monday} To Do List Disappointments: Get Over It!
Happy Monday morning!! I LOVE Mondays. Don’t you? Most entrepreneurs I know do. We think about work all the time because work is not work, it’s our passion. Even though we set boundaries and focus on...
View Article{MOB Monday} All Roads Lead to Home
It’s a new day. I’m embarking on a journey that, after a year of having a W-2 job, takes me back full circle to re-focusing on my life passions, my business babies…and my babies who are at the heart of...
View Article{MOB Monday} Create from your heart. Always.
Sometimes I get flack for being passionate about too many things. People seem confused that I don’t have one neat, clean title. “Are you a graphic designer?” “Are you a social media consultant?”...
View ArticleSaturday Snapshots + Five Years on Facebook
Today marks my 5th Facebook Anniversary. We’ve been through a lot through these past five years, Facebook and I. The classic love/hate relationship. As it was back on September 29, 2007 it is still...
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MOB Monday: Nobody Panic
Have you ever suddenly felt an overwhelming rush of panic sweep over you? Do you know the feeling of anxiety draining life from your pores as you become paralyzed in fear? Have you ever had a...
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MOB Monday: 5 Tips for Staying Focused at Work (and Beating Shiny Object...
What’s that? That over there? Something glimmering… shiny… is that glitter? Is that a glittery unicorn galloping toward me with a basketful of bacon?! No, it’s just another random thing I HAVE to do....
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Top Tips for Working From Home With Young Kids
Now that I have a five-year-old and an eight-year-old in elementary school, it is more challenging for me to get work done when they are home compared to when they were babies. The biggest difference:...
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[Mom Entrepreneur Bliss] How Mom Entrepreneurs Can Say No in Order to Say Yes
Thanks to social media, we mom entrepreneurs can seem like a pretty social bunch. We’re founders & Presidents out mixing and mingling to spread the word at networking events; eager entrepreneurs...
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How the Pour Over Brew Method Made Me Slow Down and Savor The Moments
I ran out of flat bottom coffee filters. That’s how it all started. Thrust into a morning without the familiar pattern of rising to the smell of time-brewed coffee in my trusty old coffee maker that I...
View Article{M.O.B. Monday} Vacation: The New “Conference”
My name is Marlynn, and I take a lot of vacations. BWAHAHA. If you know me – or are a fellow parent entrepreneur – you know that sentence does not just roll off the tongue. For the past six years as a...
View Article{M.O.B. Monday} I can see clearly now the mess is gone…
I am the first to admit: I’ve got a lot of issues. One being: I cannot work or really even start to think clearly if I am surrounded by a mess. It’s as if I need to wipe the physical slate clean before...
View ArticleLeavin’ On a Jet Plane
Remember a few months back when I was just itching for a trip of my own? Just me and the ability to hear my own thoughts? My wish for a trip by myself has come true in a way I had never imagined. I...
View Article{M.O.B. Monday} Hot Sun, Warm Bloggers, Cool Cocktails
When I started this blog in 2004, the blogosphere was a much different place. Like many folks, I took a break here and there to get my bearings, re-evaluate my reasons for blogging, secretly wish karma...
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