Posts by Gina
How I Save 11 Hours Every Month & Organize my Business for FREE
Proposals, contracts, invoices, time sheets…it all made my head hurt when I starting getting my first business clients. Perhaps my fellow creative professionals would agree with me—thinking about paperwork and processes is something we want to bury in the closet part of our brain. There was always a voice in my head wondering if I…
Read MoreYour Ultimate Guide to Your Best Travel Journal
Your travels are special. Your travel journal should be too. It will hold the physical trinkets of your travels — and the photos on your camera cannot compare to the note your host family gave you or the small painting you bought on the streets of the oldest market in the city. Give some thought to…
Read More11 Cheap Tools I Use to Run My Business & Blog
As an Executive Director of a nonprofit and a blogger, I use a variety of systems to manage my business and blog. Because I like to be money conscious in both of these environments, finding free or cheap business tools is very important to me, and I’m sure to many of you as well! While…
Read MoreThe #1 Reason We Don’t Practice Self-Care
Why do we do such a bad job of taking care of ourselves? I asked this question to my mom last week when we were sitting on our back deck on night too hot for October. She instantly said: “Because we think we’re fine.”
Read More8 Ways InDesign Can Enhance Your Blog (Free Templates)
There are many tools bloggers can use to achieve quality visuals for their brands—I’ve talked about Canva, Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, PicMonkey and several other tools in the past. Today, I want to share why InDesign has transformed my blogging process—and the many things you can do with this tool. Plus, I will be sharing 10…
Read MoreHow to Maximize Creativity for Your Blog, Business or Side Hustle
For almost a full year, I was going through a phase of creative block. While you can argue that there is no such thing (and I do believe we can always work towards being creative at any point in time), I was experiencing a lack of inspiration, motivation and excitement for creative projects in general.…
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