Hi Reader, This year has tested every entrepreneur I know. Even when my fellow business owners and I are swapping struggles, though, our chats always come back to the same thing. Resilience. Resilience is the armor we entrepreneurs build up over time. Each year, with each setback, it compounds a little more. I don’t want to brush off all of 2025’s challenges as blessings in disguise. For many business owners, some months have just felt really stressful. At the same time, those changes add a...

Hi Reader, It’s hard to believe that it's already back-to-school season! As we wrap up summer, I’ve been thinking a lot about a tradition Hazel and I celebrate during the warmer months: alternating Fridays off. One week, I would check out a day early. The next week, Hazel did. This extra day gave us both more time to hang out with family while school was out and just enjoy some summertime slowness in between all our goal-chasing. I spent those Fridays doing lots of leisurely baking and...

Hi Reader, I often tell marketing clients, “Focus on the right things, not all the things. Trying to be everywhere at once just dilutes your efforts.” This summer, I had to take some of my own advice when I hit pause on my MBA. If you’re anything like me, you know it’s not always easy to take your own advice. 😉 I had little choice, though. When the semester ended in June, I was exhausted. The end of the semester coincided with all the big things we have happening at Drio. There was our...