Archive for the ‘Storytelling’ Category

Can I Reveal My True Self As A Business Owner?

by Giulietta Nardone
I’ve had more than a few folks tell me that they can’t possibly show their “real” personalities to their business clients. They would not be taken seriously unless they presented a watered-down version of themselves.

Do you think that, too?

I wonder where these notions originated. Back at the beginning of work time thousands of years ago? It means you have to juggle several masks – work, play, in-between, and remember which one to put in the morning, which one to put on at night, which one to wear networking.

It’s interesting that we feel that our dull, sterile personalities would come across as a condition to be taken seriously — whatever that means. I wonder if some people believe that because then they don’t have to take the risk to reveal themselves. (more…)

If You Love Yourself, Your Business Will Prosper

by Giulietta Nardone

I feel so strongly that you need to love yourself to get anywhere in business and life that I’m going to mention a mini-retreat I’m co-hosting this Saturday, January 12th in Hopkinton from 9 am to 2 pm.

It’s called Eat, Pray, Love Yourself More! A twist on the best seller by Elizabeth Gilbert.

Eat, Pray, Love Yourself More! will provide opportunities to dig deeper into the nuances of your daily lives, to identify what creative and love-minded gifts you have to offer the world, and to highlight ways you might take more loving care of yourself.

Here is the link if you live in Greater Boston. Love Yourself More!

I’m convinced that a lot of the fear we experience in life comes from a lack of self-love, that we somehow think we don’t measure up to some strange standard someone put into our heads a long time ago. Why we’d want to take the genius each one of us possesses and crunch it into some generic sanitized lifeless version of us makes no sense to me. No wonder the economy can’t get its groove back.  (more…)

It’s About Them and You

by Giulietta Nardone

I first started out in business thinking it was all about me, something I learned from behind-the-marketing scenes at the corporations which employed me. Then a few years later, I adopted the advice of various marketing business experts about clients: It’s all about them.

Yet that grovelling sort of mindset always felt phony and compliant.

“I will do whatever you say in order to get your money.” It made me feel powerless. It made me feel like a fraud. It made me feel cheap.

You and your client may be exchanging money, but you’re also involved in a spiritual exchange. I’m defining spiritual here to mean operating on something other than greed, some set of values that you and your business stand for no matter what.  (more…)