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not my business
on those who put the "business" back into "LGBTQ+ business"
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owner and CEO
on who's in charge around here
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tuning my message, pt. 2
dropping the new brand
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transitional leaders and me
on choosing new skills carefully
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tuning my message
A few weeks ago I shared some of my goals for my third year in business. One of those goals is to define myself for people who don’t know me yet. What do I do as a consultant? What makes me special? In what areas am I great at
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Future Emergent: year two
I’m a week late (thanks, covid!) but I’m so excited to mark the end of my second year in business. If you only know me through this blog, I started Future Emergent, my own consulting business, back in April 2022. Last year, I wrote about my first year
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Future Emergent: year one
I’ve been running Future Emergent for a year now! When I announced my new business last March, I wrote: “I am here to encourage you to dream bigger. I am here to tell you that we can do this. I am here to tell you that this can’t
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welcome to Future Emergent
I started be the future more than 2 years ago, on October 7, 2019. When I began, I didn’t know exactly what I wanted to do with it. I had all these ideas and nowhere to put them. I was chafing against the walls and boxes I found myself
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get out and rise
this is a collaborative post: concepts and words by Christina Chan and josh martinez. My friend Christina and I are no stranger to complicated workplaces. We worked together for a while before we both moved on to better pastures. We collaborated on this post, as people who’ve been there,
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we are what's next
Think back to a time about six years ago. Hillary Clinton was in Minnesota. While campaigning for president, she spoke with a voter in a Minneapolis coffeeshop. The voter, Stacey Rosana, spoke with a quiet voice that mingled with the sounds of the coffeeshop. Rosana started by reminding Clinton of
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breaking the walls
Every day we come across stories about how the ultra-wealthy are different from us. Their private jets take them at a moment’s notice to any place they desire. Their mansions and estates sit on acres of lush terrain and a security detail. The same can be true no matter
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the right way
I don’t remember a sudden shift in how I felt. I had hardened into a cynic when I was in high school. Those feelings threatened to stay with me into adulthood. I knew racism and bigotry existed. I tried to call attention to them. I tried to internalize them.
