Dear Nurtured Entrepreneur,

This year, I’m discovering a new layer of community in my life and business as a mindful entrepreneur.  I began my entrepreneurial career with a full-time business partner.  Our intrepid and creative partnership lasted 16 years.  Then I began working as a creative solopreneur and found a deficit of connection and community in my daily round.  I had a bountiful online community and truly marvelous clients, but I needed something more.


As Marci Shimoff states in the quotation above, we’re made to connect with other human beings.  And while I deeply appreciate exchanging smiles and a few words with the grocery clerk, especially on a gloomy day, I’m talking about a community of peers of the soul.  People who feed us on a deep level.  We have to nurture and nourish ourselves as we pursue our work with passion and live our vision for our lives and our business.

If you are feeling discontented, disconnected, uncertain, or apathetic about your wonderful service in the world, you’re probably not getting an adequate supply of community.  Send out a call for more kindred spirits to show up in your life.  Open your heart and ears and eyes to finding new sources to grow and share within so you can serve your tribe from a full heart.

“Throughout the years I have learned that beneath whatever we think our discontent may be, we very much need three things: an awareness of our inner longing…the courage to act on behalf of that longing…and a sense of community to support and maintain our interior journey.”   -Gunilla Norris, Inviting Silence

Until next time … Post Closing