I am not currently a podcaster. For Christmas this year, though, I got an excellent microphone, and also discovered a fantastic open source audio editing software program. So I do plan to start podcasting fairly soon. I’ll let you know how that goes.
One of the problems preventing many would-be Thought Leaders from starting to podcast [...]

Word press is an excellent content management system. However, sometimes it needs some help. Blog design and web design, while increasingly intertwined, are not exactly the same thing.
Luckily, for those of us in the Dallas-Fort Worth area, the DFW Word press meet up group recently hosted a workshop on the Pods CMS plug-in. With this [...]

Quit your day job the minute you see a viable path toward financial independence.

I just read Seth Godin’s post about Risk and Reward. He talked about the trade-off between Risk and Reward, and how you have to take on additional risk in order to get additional reward. (Which is true.)
And he had this nifty graph:
Minor quibble- Traditionally, Risk is charted on the x-axis, reward (return) on the y-axis.
Risk [...]

A wave of new businesses are being started, as people realize that they have the power to take control of their lives. What’s driving this trend? And what are the dangers?

I have a friend from Puerto Rico who told me that they have a saying, “The shoemaker’s children have barefeet.” I’ve since found out that we have the same saying in English. The idea being that many times, people who are in a particular business don’t bother to do for themselves what they make a [...]