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How to Know the Difference Between Growing your Business and Scaling it
On Wednesday November 12th, I attended the inaugural Scalerator Association of Trinidad & Tobago live Zoom session: From Seed to Scale: The Role of Capital, Customers & Community in Scaling. It wasn’t another “entrepreneurs talk and share how they’d reached to the top”…instead everyone on the panel felt real and accessible, running businesses right here…
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Being Vague WILL Kill your Business
Most of us don’t suffer from lack of talent. We suffer from a lack of focus. We say things like: “I just want to earn more money.”“I’m ready to grow my business.”“I want to attract better clients.” Sounds great. Except… how much more money? What kind of growth? Which clients? We leave the details fuzzy,…
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Everyone Sounds Smart until Presented with a Blank Page
We live in an age where confidence often passes for competence. When someone speaks with authority — especially a respected leader or familiar voice — we rarely pause to ask how deeply they actually understand what they’re talking about. We also live in a culture that rewards sounding smart. Yet we don’t always stop to…
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Are You Ready to Face What Isn’t Working?
It’s budget time in Trinidad & Tobago — that time of year when everyone, from the corner parlour to corporate boardrooms, pauses to wait. We are holding a collective breath as if the answer to our next move is hiding in a fiscal statement. Meanwhile, the world outside is shifting faster than the headlines. Consumer…
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Bragging is Allowed
When you read/saw this title – did it make you feel uncomfortable? The thought of you bragging? Did it go against the grain of everything you know to be true? Did thoughts of pride and falling surface? Some days your ego shows up like a karaoke star—Notice me. Applaud me. Hand me the mic. It…
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How to Reclaim your Muchness
You used to be much muchier. You’ve lost your muchness. I came across this quote recently where the person posting said that every time she feels the need to apologize for being too much, she remembers that this is what the Mad Hatter told Alice. I naturally assumed it belonged to Lewis Carroll’s 19th-century Alice’s…
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The Hidden Tax of Influence and the Real Cost of Outsourcing Transformation
In a recent New York Times Magazine interview, [you can listen to the interview here], Brené Brown named something rare that and also costly. She described the “care tax”—the hidden toll of being treated as a national therapist, expected not only to share ideas but to absorb people’s deepest stories of pain and trauma. After…

