For a designer, it can be difficult to create your own brand – although creating brands is your profession! When you work for clients, you need to step into…

  I’ve been pondering on what motivates us in business. It condenses down to four core desires: the impulse to create, the commitment to serve, the need to make money,…

I have followed  Alastair McDermott for some time, and I’m impressed with how he built his brand through podcasting. I met with him to talk and sketch the challenges faced by…

Clients often book a session with me when they feel swamped with ideas. They have many interests and use a wide range of skills and modalities. Describing what they do…

To Kellita Malloof,  a “showgirl” is woman who authentically expresses her essence and thereby inspires others to do the same. Kellita works with kind, highly sensitive women who have a…

If you follow my posts, it can very well be that you’re creative, and you have many ideas and interests. You love to learn and improve. A new education, courses,…

Mike Rohde is the visual thinking pioneer who coined the term “sketchnoting”. He is one of the people that brought me onto “the path” – I did one of his…

Book tip: I picked up “The Kindness Method” by Shahroo Izadi after hearing her on a podcast. Honestly, the title alone made me buy the book before I even listened…

I just designed a “success roadmap” for my upcoming Mess-to-Message program for visual minds. Visual minds: Coaches, consultants, or creatives who need to SEE stuff to understand it. I also…

Discovered today: The “Inner Speech Bubble Method”. Have you tried to change your mindset to become more positive? Today I stumbled across a new way. And it works! I started…

Somewhere I read that instead of keeping a “gratitude” journal, you should write up your wins. Wins sounds like wings, so that’s what I’m doing now. Drawing my daily win.…

I hosted another inspiring Idea Sketching Café yesterday, featuring embodiment coach Erika Chalkley. She shared how high-achieving women often live lives defined by societal expectations, not on their terms. She…

Book tip: “3-word Rebellion” by Dr. Michelle Mazur It is a powerful manual about how to craft your message Developing a clear and powerful message is super important, especially in the…

I have long been interested in the concept of “ikigai”, and I’m using a variation of it myself in my “Find your Sweet spot” coaching. David Marlow is “The Ikigai…

What if you have an idea but don’t know if it is a distraction or will bring you closer to what you want in your business and life? Based on…

I have followed Jonathan Stark for a long time. His “Big Idea” is t ditch hourly billing, by positioning yourself as an expert to a clearly defined audience. Check out…

I had a fascinating conversation with Lee Towe, founder of Pie Growers, who is challenging our idea of what it means to “win” Lee’s concept of “Pie Growing” encourages people…

Replace yourself or be replaced! I had a fun and enlightening Big-Idea sketching session with George Kao. Usually, he rejects “fear-of-missing-out marketing “techniques. I noticed a new urgency lately when he…