This is a bonus of a 7-letter series about creating more opportunities in life and business. The best entrepreneurs and sales people fill their pipeline with decisive leads. In my first business, I’d wake up early in the morning, look at my calendar filled with sales calls I had worked hard to land. I’ll give […]

This is part 7 of a 7-letter series about creating more opportunities in life and business. Turn strangers to leads to friends. Recently, a friend sent me an email asking if I was interested in an advisory role at a company he once worked for. I said sure. He connected me by email, I interviewed, […]

This is part 5 of a 7-letter series about creating more opportunities in life and business. “Your LinkedIn has been restricted.” That’s the message I got a few years ago after a few attempts to log in. All I got was a blank white screen. My sister had texted me asking “are you still on […]

This is part 5 of a 7-part series on how to share expertise to attract and create opportunities in life and business. It was Fall 2022. I had just created my first NFT collection – 405 digital tokens to match the number of pages in my award-winning book, Toffy’s Divide. I created the art, wrote […]

This is part 3 of a 7-part series on how to share expertise to attract and create opportunities in life and business. When I wrote my first blog, I had one goal – rank high for search terms related to my business in 2016. I hardly got an organic lead that came to my website […]

This is part 2 of a 7-letter series about creating more opportunities in life and business. I’m doing this because I learned about building a business online the hard way. It started with my first business. I tinkered around with an app for almost a year. I paid a developer and a designer. We worked […]

Make this your #1 task – always be attracting opportunities. You deserve to have options and live a more fulfilling life. If you don’t know how to help people, you’ll struggle to find purpose. Purpose is a combination of fueling personal growth and making a contribution to the life of people around you. I’m eternally […]

Trust makes everything in life and business easier. I was on my couch on a Friday evening when I reached out to a friend of mine.  We hadn’t spoken in a while. As we caught up, he mentioned: “Oh, aren’t you writing a book or something.” I was a few weeks into my crowdfunding campaign […]

Your everyday ordinary life + the unique insights you have = extraordinary story. One of my first “viral posts” on LinkedIn happened about 5 years ago. I wrote about publishing my book. I got hundreds of reactions. It felt good. I posted the next day. It got 2 reactions. That’s when I realized, if I […]

Your story is your biggest point of leverage. I had an interesting insight recently where insights happen the most – the shower. As I rinsed off sweat from the gym, my thoughts swerved around how companies struggle to hire, train, and retain good talent.   Then my thoughts bent the corner and it clicked…..whoa. Insight: “If […]