On a call with a colleague recently, I mentioned that Big Leap Creative has become a Hubspot Certified Partner. We were talking about businesses staying relevant, looking ahead. I love to mountain bike and one of the things you are told as you navigate tricky single track that winds through the woods at relatively fast […]

  Just for fun, let’s say I’m starring in my own Jim Carrey movie and, in that movie, I must click on every happiness article that comes into my newsfeed and incorporate that advice into my daily routine. Top Six Habits of the Highly Successful, or Eight Morning Rituals That Will Change Your Life Forever. The day might roll […]

Raf Simons had just been hired as Christian Dior’s creative director and had eight weeks before Paris Fashion Week to work with his new (to him) team and present the haute couture collection. No big deal. In the documentary Dior and I, director Frédéric Tcheng takes us on a gorgeous and intimate tour of the process. He shows […]

Most people live their lives on other people’s terms. Their days are spent achieving other people’s goals and submitting to other people’s agendas. Their lives have not been consciously organized in such a way that they command every waking, and sleeping, moment of their life. Instead, they relentlessly react at every chance they get… Creators […]

Ann Lamott calls it the “shitty first draft.” Which is good to know because that means  even the best of us start with shitty first drafts. Don’t lose faith in your shitty first draft, for today, I’m going to help you turn it into a good story. This idea all started when I created a screencast for my client, […]

Chinese whispers (or telephone in the United States) is a game played around the world, in which one person whispers a message to another, which is passed through a line of people until the last player announces the message to the entire group. – Source Often hilarity ensues at how distorted the message has become since it’s […]

I was somewhat blindsided by some bad tax news from my accountant a couple weeks ago. It was made that much worse because I felt like the situation could have been avoided with some attention and better advice from the firm over the previous 15 months. I shared my concern in a carefully and respectfully written email […]