I don’t remember exactly when I thought that I could make money blogging. I have always wanted to be a writer and blogging filled that void in my life. It made me fall in love with words again after abandoning them for many years. The years when words failed me in so many ways. Money […]

This week alone I have received three messages that the small business that I wanted to work with has gone in another direction. A nice way of saying, we didn’t like what you had to offer. Three times and it is only Tuesday. Last week, I received two of those messages and I am still […]

Are you staring at another blank screen hoping that it will fill with words? I have been there. I know what it is like to stare and hope that an idea will come to me and that the words will just spill out. It isn’t always like that though so sometimes we have to think […]

In my Facebook group, Becoming the Blogger Within, we have been talking about the beginning stages of starting a blog. Yesterday, we talked about choosing a blogging platform and today we started talking about how to choose your domain name. I have gone through a few domain names throughout the years that have changed when […]

Fierce. That was my word for 2021 and for most of this year, I felt anything but. I had spent months applying for jobs because my husband had lost hours due to COVID. No one would hire me. My business was going nowhere and I couldn’t figure out why. I almost walked away multiple times […]

Just imagine if readers just magically appeared on our blogs. Loving and soaking up EVERY word that we were to write. Just imagine. Blogging would be easy. Blogging would be fun. Blogging would get boring after a while. No, you are probably right, it wouldn’t get boring but it would be a lot less work […]

Some people dream of being an entrepreneur. I was NOT one of those people. I imagined board rooms. I imagined dress suits. I imagined power. I imagined a life outside of my home. Some people make being an entrepreneur seem easy. They make it out to be that if we just follow our passions then […]

43% of people admit to skimming blog posts. (Source) I know that I have done it. I am probably the exception though because I do love to thoroughly read what others are blogging about. But I want you to take a moment to think about that number for a moment. That is almost half of […]

It feels so good to be writing this blog post. I have taken 3 weeks off of writing any fresh content on my blog. May was a strange month. I really struggled to focus on my business. I didn’t know where I needed to go or how to get there so I took a step […]

I didn’t feel the full brunt of my creditability and expertise until I was doing a podcast interview with someone and they were so excited to talk to me. I remember her exact words were, “I have never spoken to a professional blogger before.” I may have laughed at her comment because NO ONE had […]