This may sound ironic but a travel nut like me finds business travel stressful. Early in my career as a journalist, I thought that traveling for work was a means to score free trips. I always wanted to travel but since I could barely survive with my tiny paycheck back then, I was always trying [...]

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Sometimes we are our own worst enemies. We have this idea which we will further our career or business, and yet we don’t act on it. Either we get distracted by another bright shiny object or justify that we’re too busy or too tired to work on this idea. What we don’t realize is the [...]

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Here is the most important thing that I learned while setting up a copy writing business on the side: I need to hire someone if I want to transition this from being a mere side hustle into a profitable full time enterprise. Like most bootstrapping newbie entrepreneurs, I fell into the trap of do-it-yourself  mentality. [...]

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The work-life balance is a myth. If you are a woman entrepreneur, there’s a big chance that you are, for some reason, chasing this unicorn dream of having a work-life balance. After all, isn’t that what all these blogs/magazines/tv shows/self help books/audiobooks/etcetera are telling you? That in order for you to have a fulfilling life [...]

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