Vanessa Loder
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How To Stay Ambitious In Business Without Burning Out
How can you have an impact with your life and career and fulfill your wildest goals without sacrificing yourself or your sanity in the process? Here are seven steps to create success with ease. → Read More
The Secret to Hiring And Retaining Millennial Women
There is a stereotype that women leave organizations due to difficulty balancing work, life, and motherhood, but new research from ICEDR shows that four of the five main reasons women leave organizations are the same as men. A McKinsey study also showed that, contrary to popular belief, women are not opting [...] → Read More
How To Rewire Your Brain For Happiness
Is happiness something we can cultivate or is it a result of our environment? New scientific research is shedding light on the answer, and the results are encouraging. Imagine your brain has all these neural pathways connecting different responses. If you’re stuck in a traffic jam, and you feel angry, that [...] → Read More
How Great Leaders Motivate Their Teams
Human beings all deeply want to believe in something. It’s in our basic human nature. If you want to motivate your employees and attract customers and investors with ease, one of the most vital things you can do is give them a “why” to believe in. There is a fascinating study done [...] → Read More
How To Use Criticism To Your Advantage
When you’re running your own business, the more you grow, the more feedback and criticism you receive. This can be difficult to handle. How can you take control of criticism and use it to your advantage rather than living in fear of it? Here is a framework, part of which comes [...] → Read More
How To Deal With The Daily Deluge Of Emails (And Get The 'Real' Work Done)
Let me paint a picture for you. Your day is chock full of meetings, between which you frantically try to catch up on emails and respond to everyone’s requests. Your tight schedule forces you to get back online at night to finish work after you’ve had dinner or put your [...] → Read More
5 Tips For Making Time For Yourself Despite Competing Priorities
One woman recently asked me, “How do you go to work all day, attend several meetings, then come home and make dinner and tomorrow's lunch and go to bed early enough to get enough sleep so that you can do it all over again tomorrow? Is there a way to [...] → Read More
How To Conquer The Fear Of Failure
Every entrepreneur I know is afraid of failure. It’s human nature. When we go outside of our comfort zone, we feel scared. As entrepreneurs, our ego and identity become so wrapped up in what we are doing, that when things do not go as we expect, we can literally feel [...] → Read More
How To Conquer The Fear Of Failure - 5 Proven Strategies
Every entrepreneur I know is afraid of failure. It’s human nature. When we go outside of our comfort zone, we feel scared. As entrepreneurs, our ego and identity become so wrapped up in what we are doing, that when things do not go as we expect, we can literally feel [...] → Read More
Creativity Made Simple - 5 Steps For Outside The Box Solutions
How would you like a roadmap for doing everything – including problem solving – with more creativity? This roadmap comes from New York Times bestselling author Michael Gelb, who has spent the past forty years exploring how to help others enhance and apply their natural creative powers. We recently sat down [...] → Read More
Why Only 20% Of Teams and Individuals Achieve Their True Potential
Research shows that only 20% of people achieve anything close to their true potential. I recently sat down with Shirzad Chamine, who believes he has identified exactly why most of us do not reach out true potential, and what we can do about it. In his New York Times Bestseller [...] → Read More
Famous Comedian Steve Martin Shares Three Insights On Success
During his stand-up comedy career, Steve Martin was the comedic equivalent of Bono from U2. He could sell out a stadium that seats forty-five thousand people, which at the time, was completely unfathomable for a comedian. In his autobiography Born Standing Up, Martin shares how he spent 10 years honing [...] → Read More
How To Use Visualization To Get What You Want
We have two minds — the conscious and the subconscious. According to Dr. Bruce Lipton, a former professor of medicine at Stanford University, "the subconscious mind operates at 40 million bits of → Read More
Work - Life Balance -- Is It Even Possible?
I recently read an interesting study published in Harvard Business Review about how successful executives balance work and life. Based on five years’ worth of interviews with almost 4,000 executives worldwide, the study shows five main themes amongst those executives who most effectively combine their work and home lives: 1. [...] → Read More
What To Do When Someone Doesn’t Respect Your Time
Have you ever had someone cancel or postpone a meeting with you at least three times in row? If you think it’s bad luck, or you feel indignant because you believe the other person is entirely to → Read More
The Perfection Trap: Why Everything You Learned About Success May Be Wrong
Our education system and society at large reward the idea of striving for perfection: getting an “A” on an exam, flawlessly executing a project, looking like the super fit people on the cover of most magazines; and yet, in the world of entrepreneurship, perfection is more of a liability than [...] → Read More
Surviving Shark Attacks: How Facing Fears Can Keep You -- And Your Business -- Alive
What kills more people than shark attacks every year? → Read More
How To Avoid Being Overwhelmed And Exhausted
As entrepreneurs, your business is incredibly important to you, and there is no official “off” switch. You get to decide when you are working and when you are not. In some ways, this is a double-edged sword. Brigid Schulte, an award-winning journalist and New York Times author of Overwhelmed: Work, [...] → Read More
Why Multi-Tasking Is Worse Than Marijuana For Your IQ
What makes you more stupid – smoking marijuana, emailing while talking on the phone or losing a night’s sleep? Researchers at the Institute of Psychiatry at the University of London studied 1,100 workers at a British company and found that multitasking with electronic media caused a greater decrease in IQ than [...] → Read More
How To Set Boundaries Without Being Mean
You know that feeling when you say "yes" to something, then immediately regret it? Whether it’s volunteering for a committee or agreeing to pick up the slack for a sick colleague at work, research → Read More