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Grass is Greener Underfoot

January 12, 2022 by Lisa Gerber Leave a Comment

Many years ago, I wrote a weekly ski column for Spokane’s daily paper and for that column, I interviewed a girl who had an interesting affliction:

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Vision, not Resolution

December 27, 2021 by Lisa Gerber Leave a Comment

If you have been following this blog for a while, you’ll recognize this content. It’s become my Arlo Guthrie Alice’s Restaurant Massacree (a spoken song played every year around Thanksgiving) or my Love Actually (the best ever Christmas movie we watch every year).

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Finding Purpose at the Intersections

December 13, 2021 by Lisa Gerber Leave a Comment

“Find something you really love doing and mix it with something you care about.” – Kathleen Hanna.

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The Time and Place

November 29, 2021 by Lisa Gerber Leave a Comment

Holidays always make me nostalgic and I was thinking about how things become so ingrained in us as kids that we don’t even realize it because we don’t know any different.

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Cheerleaders and Narrative Flips

November 15, 2021 by Lisa Gerber Leave a Comment

I’m on the other side of a very big week, a week that has loomed not only on my calendar but also very heavily on my mind. My book was released (YAY! And more details below), but I gave a new workshop and had some client deliverables. 

Filed Under: Blog posts, Communications Tagged With: From So What? to So Funded!

Story v. Non-Story

November 1, 2021 by Lisa Gerber Leave a Comment

You keep using that word. I don’t think it means what you think it means. – Inigo Montoya, Princess Bride

Filed Under: Blog posts, Communications Tagged With: story

Inspiration: To be inspiring, think how you were inspired

October 18, 2021 by Lisa Gerber Leave a Comment

When was the last time you felt inspired? Really. Take a second to recall a time. I’ll wait. Maybe it was a book, a movie, someone you follow online, a news story, a brand, or a nonprofit? 

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The Final Chapter

September 27, 2021 by Lisa Gerber Leave a Comment

As I type the first draft of this, I’m on a plane back to my hometown to finally have a gathering and memorialize my dad, who passed away in May 2020.

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Getting Noticed

September 13, 2021 by Lisa Gerber Leave a Comment

I get asked hard questions a lot, and the answers are always simple, but doing the work for the desired outcome is not.

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When is sharing oversharing?

August 30, 2021 by Lisa Gerber Leave a Comment

It starts with a beautiful wild place to visit. Then, everyone journeys there. The place gets disrespected, trampled, and trashed.

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Thanks to Danny Brown for listing Lisa as a top 5 blogger to watch in 2013:

I first got to know Lisa Gerber from working with her when she was part of Arment Dietrich, and I knew then that she was a smart cookie… Her blog (has) become a staple part of my reading diet.

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