I’m super excited today to take you inside the studio of my design collaborator and good friend Jon Flannery, founder of Cryptogram. I announced earlier this week that we are doing a special giveaway right now for a limited edition THERE IS NOTHING STOPPING YOU (#tinsy) poster that Jon created. (Simply subscribe to our community by February …
It’s giveaway time! To celebrate the new pointroadstudios.com, I wanted to do something special for the awesome community that makes our mission and work come to life. (That’s you!) I collaborated with the fabulous Jon Flannery, designer and printer behind Cryptogram, to create a limited edition THERE IS NOTHING STOPPING YOU poster. Curious about why …
Retreats, like people, come in all shapes and sizes – from corporate board retreats with colleagues to vacation getaways with good friends to silent meditations in the woods. While there are usually some common elements to what we want out of a retreat (e.g. feeling rested, clear-headed, transformed, refueled), there are an infinite number of …
Ahh, let rest. I write today from the midst of a glorious retreat weekend. I’m away with two dear friends and fellow entrepreneurs for our third annual Entrepreneur’s Getaway. The three of us have holed up in an old train station turned art studio/Airbnb in the horse country of Virginia. Our theme for the weekend …
I celebrate the idea of beauty in chaos on a pretty regular basis. When someone asks me how things are going, you will probably hear me respond that life is good, albeit a little hectic. “It’s a beautiful chaos” has become my default refrain. This phrase is like a survival mechanism for this mama of …
Well, here we are. The final days of 2016. Whether it has been a year to remember or a year you cannot wait to see from your rearview mirror, we are about to flip a page. 2017 is upon us. With a new year comes a natural impulse to look ahead. It’s a time of …
I want to share a funny story with you all this week. It’s a story about my books. They’ve been locked up for about a year in pretty dismal quarters. A closet. Yes, a closet. One that was teeming, filled top to bottom, many rows deep, with books. But just this week I gave them …
I can still remember the moment I committed to launching my own business. At the time I wasn’t quite sure what that business would be, but I felt a gauntlet had been thrown and I was ready to pick it up. I was sitting down for my performance review with my boss circa 2010 and …
I’ve been reading voraciously recently about lasagna gardens. (Someone is already having fun imagining what lies at the end of winter.) And no – these aren’t gardens intended to produce Italian feasts, though I had that same thought myself. Lasagna gardening is actually a system of building great gardening soil through layering things like cardboard, compost, …
