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Boss Lady

Laura and Emira, two rock star women who I profiled on Another Girl at Play, are successful entrepreneurs (designers who run their own business Raised Eyebrow Studios) who just launched a great new site Boss Lady. Aimed at being a resource for other entrepreneurs as well as a launch pad for their book of the same name, this site looks really promising.

Why I love this idea so much is that a lot of books dedicated to running a business for women really do focus on the feelings side or the craftu side a lot. They say if we just wore glitter, accepted how we were right now, did mantras, wore pink, bought inexpensive soap and so forth we could be have a business.

Yes, we could have business but they wouldn't be successful.

I consider myself an artist, a creative girl but I always also think of myself as a business person. I treat all emails as business emails, I keep up to date on all my book keeping, I have investments, I work hard, I network, I do really great work all the time and never slack, I evolve and always aim higher. I don't just paint and wait - I paint and then do more. That is why I can live off of what I do and that's why I'm continously employed. According to most books on creativity and art you should just be content with writing morning pages every day or live juicy! Not. Great. Business. Advice.

But Emira and Lauren, I have no doubt, will make a really excellent book and site. They have the background in business to back up everything they say (they gave me the best advice ever: don't undersell yourself) and the creative caputz to keep you inspired.

If I could pull off a "you go girls" I'd put that in right here.

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