The average American spends a whopping 10 hours and 39 minutes a day looking at some kind of screen (source)… whether that’s TV, laptop, tablet or mobile. Social media alone eats up 30% of that time… We’re so connected all the time that it’s almost become an addiction, and running out of battery has become … Read more
I spent last weekend at the Thought Leader Business Summit, and we spent the last day talking about the elephant in the room — last year many of the leaders in our space saw their engagement and sales drop by up to a third. Open rates, down. Launch sales, down. Live event sales, down. You … Read more
“I’m stuck.” With those two short words, I pulled you into a black hole of drama and despair. I didn’t mean to. That’s just one of the unconscious games people play with each other when they’re either looking for support or looking for validation that they are indeed stuck.
Last Friday afternoon I had a major “freak out”. With the clock ticking down to Message to Money LIVE (our biggest live event of the year), my team had come into my office to talk through ALL the logistics of the event. And 2 hours and 5 pages of details later, it hit me like a ton of bricks….
I spent 2 years living in London in the 2000s while attending grad school at the Royal College of Art… and one of the most iconic parts of London is the Tube, the underground system that crisscrosses the city. From the circular logo with the names of each station inside to the words MIND THE GAP … Read more
Visiting Cuba is like entering a living time capsule from the 1950s… Classic cars crisscrossing the streets. Gorgeous architecture crumbling into decay. An economy struggling to come out of the cold war shadows. Murray and I had the distinct impression that Havana would have become the Paris of Latin America if the embargo hadn’t pushed the pause … Read more
Each December for the past 4 years, I’ve spent a few hours creating my vision for the new year.
And each year I’ve done this, we’ve at least doubled our business from the previous year. (And one year we even tripled it!)
Every hour I spend planning is literally worth its weight in gold.
In this post I want to share the exact template I use each and every year to clarify my vision and turn it into reality (this really is the “secret santa sauce”.)
Two weeks ago Murray and I were visiting my dear friend Celine up in Big Sur.
We had always been sisters of sorts with some uncanny parallels: We’re both 37; half Asian, half European; graduates of Brown University; with family in California, Thailand and Costa Rica.
But that’s where the similarities stop.
So I asked her the Big Question that was racing through my mind…
“Marisa, what’s your secret?,” Deborah asked. I had just wrapped up teaching Your Offer in a Weekend on the heels of our big Message to Money Live event… Deborah had been at both events… she watched me give every ounce I had day-after-day, speaking, performing, coaching, facilitating… and she knew I was going to lead a VIP day with a client the very next day.
“Is this… normal… for you?,” so asked. I nodded. “How you give so much day after day without completely exhausting yourself? I get tired just watching you…” It’s a question I get a lot…
If someone wants to check you out, they’re going to Google your name. Or they might head on over to the About page on your website, or read your profile on LinkedIn or what you say about yourself on Facebook. The problem is that most people don’t put a lot of care into what they … Read more
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