Posts Tagged as: entrepreneurship
10 antidotes to assumptions + the dark beauty of internships
I sent out an email looking for a free intern. Holy smokers. Sound the alarms. This is the range of responses: My perception of your integrity has plummeted. Slave driver. Who do you think you are? Unsubscribed. What an unloving tone. Tacky. What a great opportunity. I was just thinking of offering my services for...
quick brilliance, ecstatic sex, fear extinguishing + a prayer for great expectations: my december round-up
Here’s my best from the twelfth month of 2011: How to accomplish great things quickly: when quick n’ dirty is totally genius: fast can make something that lasts. Don’t censor your passion in the name of practicality. Believe. Trust. Lock into your deadlines, SET THAT BAR HIGHER AND FOCUS…
birthday givin’ and some free love…for all of us!
pay-what-you-can day is over! but the love spirals on… If you’re seeing this note, then pay-what-you-can day is officially OVER. Thanks for playing. It was … immense. You can still grab a copy of THE SPARK KIT (formerly titled: The Fire Starter Sessions) right here, at full price ($150 USD). Or, choose True Strengths +...
time kills deals, and 7 other points on making it happen
Within the last few months, I bought a house, sold my condo, and signed a bunch of creative contracts. It’s reminded me how much I love the art of the deal. The dance of instinct, will, and faith. The thrilling velocity that comes after, “I’m in!” When you enter into the deal making phase —...
listen up! live fire starter session audio with jonathan fields, me + 250 smoldering ‘preneurs
My LIVE Fire Starter Session call with Jonathan Fields, two lucky “winners” + and a couple hundred listeners, is available for FREE download! listen to the call (it’s free) click here: LIVE Fire Starter Session with LaPorte + Fields + 250 smoldering ‘preneurs It was a really great time, from getting down on money-raising to...
ode to the entrepreneurial spirit: an apology to 9 to 5r’s everywhere
I think an alarming number of us are indeed Zombies, as Everett Bogue puts it. I rode the Metro in Washington, DC for three years and all it takes is one week riding next to depressed and frazzled government commuters in their too tight Dress Barn suits and crappy ties, eating on the go, looking...
9 books for deepening how you create + work (part 2 of 3)
This is part 2 in a 3 part series. Upcoming this week: Read Part 1 here: 9 books that could deeply influence how you live creating & entrepreneuring Beauty: Rediscovering the True Sources of Compassion, Serenity, and Hope, by John O’Donohue “The awakening of individuality is a continual unfolding of our presence. Individuality is not...
cast your votes! strike a match for fire starter session winners!
♥ CLICK HERE TO VIEW + VOTE FOR THE LOVE MATCHEES ♥ Love Match Week yielded 130 fervent applications from aspiring entrepreneurs from New York to New Zealand. Guidelines for applicants were finicky but open to interpretation. Alexandra and I selected 15 finalists, and now it’s time for the the free world to choose the...
saying yes to your dream: frank gehry + devotion
Even great artists sell out. Sometimes it happens post fame and fortune. Other times, as in the case of architect Frank Gehry, you sell your soul in the beginning of your career, on what you hope is your way up. It’s better to sell out early, if only because time is merciful and you can...
snap, crackle, win. the love match tally is in! 2 days to play.
It was Love Match Week last week for The Fire Starter Sessions. For every program purchased, we gave one away. “Gifted” copies were directly donated by purchasers to their friends, daughters, fellow bloggers (there were tears and applause, lot’s of goodness,) or, buyers could donate their copy to the Love Match Mix, for aspiring/applying entrepreneurs...
- She has the knowledge you need to succeed. What she has to say is what our spirits need to hear.
— Martha Beck | Steering By Starlight - ... ignites the mind in ways that could change your career and life.
— Scott Belsky | Making Ideas Happen - Danielle's passion leaps off the page, and reading a few chapters of this book will ignite you into action.
— Gretchen Rubin | The Happiness Project - ...the revolution you've been waiting for, it will shake-up and wake-up every aspect of your life.
— Kris Carr | Crazy Sexy Diet - ... the new, bad-ass Artist's Way.
— Linda Sivertsen | Generation Green - ... shows us how to do what the world tells us we can't: be unapologetic about our deepest desires.
— Gabrielle Bernstein | Spirit Junkie - The Fire Starter Sessions is a revelation. A virtual road map to more engaged state of being.
— Jonathan Fields | Uncertainty - Money, failure, power, appreciation — The Fire Starter Sessions doesn't leave anything out of the mix.
— Barbara Stanny | Overcoming Underearning - Danielle is one serious Fire Starter, and you'll be one too after reading this masterpiece.
— Chris Guillebeau | The Art of Non-Conformity
there’s more in the hot shop
including freebies
- how do you want it all to feel? sensuous goal refinement + emotional magnetizing
- in honour of the fact that life is short
- i renovated the temple! fresh site + new treats! for everyone!
- focus, failure, assumption antidotes + surprise success: january roundup
- how to conduct a great interview: punctuations + emotion
- the manifesto of encouragement
- what is your relationship to…life?
- how to love the inevitable pain of getting focused. it hurts so good.
- the grand pep talk: decide to rise (refer to this when in doubt, or sick & tired.)
- 20 personal money practices that got me to a place of grooving prosperity. (part 1)
