Create Your Own Shawshank Redemption for Labor Day 2014 and Beyond

Hardly a day goes by when someone working in corporate life wishes and hopes to escape the nine-to-five career to pursue the idea of lucrative self-employment. That is why Pam Slim’s 2009 book Escape from Cubicle Nation touched a huge nerve to become an award-winning...

Five Life Accidents that Brought Me Here

  1. I used to own a boutique public relations agency in service to big clients, big budgets, and big news. I enjoyed operating my agency from a home office above the garage in suburban Bellevue, Washington. That was BEFORE two home burglaries, a burst pipe flooded...