Creative entrepreneurs often struggle with a conundrum: how to balance passion for their craft with the discipline required for consistent productivity. This dance between creation and consistency is the lifeblood of a successful entrepreneurial journey, demanding your full attention and weaving the threads of innovation and dedication. In this blog post, we unravel the secrets to striking the perfect balance between these two vital elements, providing an invaluable guide to navigating the...

Are you an entrepreneur, business owner, or small business owner who is feeling overwhelmed by all the demands of your business? Are you constantly feeling like you’re the bottleneck in your business that is preventing it from growing and succeeding? Amber de la Garza, the Productivity Specialist, is here to help. She has been through it herself and she has a system for getting out of the bottleneck. In this blog, we’ll explore what it means to be a bottleneck in your business,...

Are your productivity and profits suffering as a female business owner? You’ve probably started your business this year with nothing but a good idea and a lot of passion. But if you’re still not reaching your goals, you may be stuck in the five stages of grief and loss that many small business owners experience. In this episode, I’ll show you the 6 behaviors that can steal your productivity and profits and how to avoid them. I’ll outline the “unholy...

The story of how Amber de la Garza came to be a guest on this podcast is not the typical one.  It started over 3 years ago at Podcast Movement 2019.  I was a listener to her popular productivity podcast, Productivity Straight Talk, and recognized her at the conference.  Even though I did not have a podcast at the time, I approached her, introduced myself, and pitched her on the spot.  

Amber has branded herself 'The Productivity Specialist", so you know she is...

If you are anything like me, you have a tendency to procrastinate. You procrastinate on the trivial, but also on things that are important to you and when you do, it can create a lot of seriously negative consequences.   You might even think of yourself as a “procrastinator” (something I do not recommend, and talk about why, in this episode.)   

I believe that everyone procrastinates on some tasks, some of the time,  but it’s just too easy to dump...

Kathi Burns definitely found her calling as a professional organizer. She has been helping others eliminate clutter for over 17 years, has written an entire book on the subject, hosts a weekly podcast called Organized and Energized, and is even more enthusiastic about eliminating clutter to create more freedom than she was when she started.  

Once I learned that Kathi had been a travel writer who literally lived out of a suitcase and that she has also lived on a boat, I knew she...

When you are a highly educated professional woman who knows she is capable of so much more than you are demonstrating in your career and personal life, it can be tough to figure out where the real problem lies. Is it your motivation, your expectations, your habits, your mindset, or a combination of all of the above, and how do you figure it out? 

Luckily for my client, Dallas, one of her friends had worked with me and told her what a great experience she had, and then she listened to a...

I am excited to introduce you to today’s guest on The Driven Woman Podcast;  Business Strategist for online entrepreneurs, Crista Grasso.  Crista and I met at the She Podcasts Live conference and I totally fell in love with her brilliance.  Her genius is helping other entrepreneurs remove the unnecessary complexity in their business so they become more profitable as they grow.

Crista’s system, The Lean Out Method is designed to create simple, sustainable, strategic...

Far too many female entrepreneurs fail to reach their goals because they don’t plan for success.  They think that passion, energy, and creativity are enough and may reject the idea of planning as unnecessary, irrelevant, or just too painful.  I used to be one of them and gave myself every possible excuse for why I couldn’t plan when I was actually afraid I wouldn’t follow through. 

Today’s guest, Mridu Parikh, a former professional organizer turned...

One of the concepts I teach my coaching clients is entrepreneurial inertia. I use this term to explain two of the most common tendencies that entrepreneurs have that make us a mystery ( or completely annoying) to others. I made up the expression, but the inertia part is actually a physics phenomenon you are probably aware of. Inertia is a force that has two opposites. If I was a middle school science teacher, I would explain it like this: a body at rest remains at rest until an outside force...