In October 2019, I had the pleasure of speaking at Upstate Social Sessions. Upstate Social is the premier social media conference in Western New York; this year was their fifth year, and the event did not disappoint. There was such a good atmosphere at the event. 350+ folks showed up…
Today is Part 2 on how to effectively navigate your emotions. Last week on the blog, I shared about why your feelings are always valid. I touched on why it is so important to insert a pause between the event and your response. Being overly reactive is never effective when…
Did you have anxiety growing up? Do you want to learn how to better manage your anxious energy? Jen Halper and I recently discussed the impact of growing up as an anxious child on our Socialmerk YouTube Channel. We know first-hand how much anxiety impacts your day-to-day. So the first…
Comparison is the greatest killer of creativity and confidence. Seriously, comparison sucks. As someone that works in social media, I know how easy it is. It’s easy to look at others’ Instagram profiles and start to compare yourself. “They have it all,” we think to ourselves. You see other people’s…
You can become a linchpin. But first, you’ve got to get in touch with your lizard brain. You know, that anxious, angry voice in your head that tells you that you can’t do something? That feeling of internal resistance? …that’s the lizard brain. Our lizard brain “wants us to be…
A few weeks ago I attended Revolution Why, a conference for millennials looking to challenge the status quo. While I had an idea of what we would do during the weekend (camp fires, hiking, yoga and vision-boarding,) I had no idea what to except in terms of how the weekend would…
With all of the projects I’ve been working on, both inside and outside of my current day job, I’ve been feeling overwhelmed. My old, habitual response for dealing with stress was to amplify it – with anxiety. It might sound crazy to you (I mean it’s definitely crazy since it…
On Tuesday night, I picked up the ShipIt Journal for the first time since Ruckusmakers. It wasn’t easy; it had been haunting me from my office desk since the day I got back. Each time I had tried to sit down with it, with one specific project in mind, I…
I arrived to Ruckusmakers weekend, on March 6, alone. I left, on March 8, as part of a tribe. Over the course of just two days, a room filled with 79 strangers became a room filled with people so close they felt like family to me. The weekend was the…
During my visit home this past weekend I learned a valuable lesson about bumps in the road. My first day home (Friday, March 22) went a little something like this: the morning started wonderfully; the sun was shining as I drove my mom to work. After dropping her off, I…