Most of the articles on Medium are about the quick win, fast buck and this comment is actually what real life business is. It's time we start looking at why bandwagons exist and why only a few will profit off the hype while the rest will just spend a ton of money and time chasing it.

I remember getting my first journal in elementary school. It had a lock on it and it promised to hold all of my secrets. I read it recently and was saddened by how much I buried my feelings and experiences from everyone. I felt so alone, so diminished and so painfully unwanted. I often wonder what would have happened with my relationship with my parents if I had been allowed to share my loneliness when it was happening.

After an early morning session with a client, mapping out about 60 emails over 6 funnels to help create audience connections, I started to realize where people go wrong with marketing and thus, miss out on building a really great audience ready to buy from you. Ever be in a…

Hi, do you or a business owner you love, suffer from a case of undercharging? I’m Marissa Loewen. I’m not a doctor in real life and I don’t play one on TV, but I am here to help. From Etsy Sellers stuffing your boxed purchase with freebies and fancy tissue…

If you find yourself suddenly shocked or outraged about the robots stealing art so people can make brightly coloured selfies that have body parts growing out of their head — I should tell you about cultural appropriation, genocide, PETA lobbying Etsy to throttle Indigenous economies using seal fur, and then…

I run a growing paid community for business owners that is more than just your average show-up-and-share community. It runs primarily on a virtual meeting platform called GoBrunch and has a combination of 3D workrooms and then experiential rooms that are more about creating a whole body experience of being…

Let’s start with a big secret. I’m a Gen Xer on TikTok. Creating content on TikTok. Content that isn’t dancing, pointing or particularly trendy. I have been entertained by TikTok for the past 3–4 years as the Panini shut down most of my regular contact with the outside world, slowing…

With stats swirling in my head this week about 90% of startups fail and 54% of business owners never create a budget for their business and even the fact that the US alone has over 29M self-declared entrepreneurs or business owners, I keep thinking how we can turn these stats…

We are passionate about Nourishing the Risktakers We built Create the Rules Business Accelerator around the simple idea of Nourishing the Risktakers. How can we move from a society where we don’t appreciate the incredible risk, hardship and commitment that goes into building a business to one where we invest in the change makers and culture creators…