Don’t let perfection be a buzzkill

If you’re anything like me, you have a love/hate relationship with perfection. Specifically, being perfect. When you’re growing a business, a brand or even a baby, you can’t expect everything to go perfectly. It’s simply not going to happen and the more time you spend on things being perfect is more time not spent on growing and even enjoying what you’ve built. Not fun. I have a need to please and a need to be liked and naturally, those needs can’t be executed without a dose of perfection sprinkled in as a… Read More

How living abroad can be more than you ever dreamed.

We continue with words from our international women! Here is an interview with Juwana Jenkins, a singer from Philadelphia who has lived in Prague for over twenty years and now calls it her home. As an international artist, you’ve had to learn to navigate language, place and self as you have followed your passion, dreams and business.  How do you find strength? I’m driven and motivated to be my best self. Everyday I’m learning what that looks like and how that feels on that day under those unique circumstances, so learning is… Read More

Knowing What’s Right.

Do you spend a lot of time worrying about what’s right? Do you worry if you’re making the right decision? Wonder if you’re doing the right thing? Struggle with making the right choice…? So do I! Being a perfectionist is partly to blame for this “Is it right?!” curse. I’m aware of that. Maybe you are, too. I’ve learned that one way to battle this insanity is through team work. You can’t do things alone. You’ll never be perfect. You can’t get every single thing right. And sometimes you need a good… Read More

Has Being Sophisticated Gone Out of Style?

Sophisticated Women. Grandma, mom and aunts. Brown Betties

Think about what makes *you* sophisticated, and be that. – Brown Betties

Be Your Own Bettie.

That’s what it means to Be Your OWN Bettie…to grow. To be the best woman you can be. To break free of what others think you should you be and to get back to who you want to be and thought you could be.