Intrusive thoughts, challenging core beliefs, and building something new when the world is on fire Maybe I'm just not meant to be an expert. Maybe I've deluded myself.Maybe no one will want anything I'm offering. These are thoughts that have been flashing in my mind since I woke up this morning after a long night … Continue reading Can I actually be an expert? When doubt tries to hold you back…
Don’t let the noise keep you from making the changes
When we hold ourselves back because of what everyone else says I'm going back to Substack. I'm not leaving this space, I just have a new direction. A new plan. I need a place where I can scream into the void more often, and that's hard to do when everything shared/posted goes to an inbox. … Continue reading Don’t let the noise keep you from making the changes
Rebuilding My Author Brand into a Viable Income Stream
Creating a viable income streams with writing I'm rebuilding my author career. If you have followed me for any length of time, you know it's been a long one. From my first book (now completely unpublished) to the 11 books I've published since 2021, being an author is a dream I've had since I was … Continue reading Rebuilding My Author Brand into a Viable Income Stream
Do the Hard and Tedious Things in Pretty Places:
Moms building an author, writing, or artist business when things get boring or hard. I have seen a lot of rhetoric recently that people should be focusing on fun things in their business. Business should be fun and fancy free. I've written about this before on the blog that hard days will happen. Hard and … Continue reading Do the Hard and Tedious Things in Pretty Places:
Creative Marketing When I Don’t Want to Rely on Social Media
The marketing landscape is changing, and to be honest, I've never been great at it. I have fun on social media...sometimes. Still, with everything changing so rapidly, I don't want to solely rely on social media to build my mentorship community or my author/book sales. This fall, I'm going to set myself up to do … Continue reading Creative Marketing When I Don’t Want to Rely on Social Media
Hard Days Happen
The thing we should talk about more is that there is a lot of emphasis in today's world to make things easy. To avoid friction...Life can't always be easy, though. And we have to create the world we want to live in.
Coming Home in my Creative Work
"I love how you're such a prolific writer Candice." Her words hit like a gut punch.They were genuinely complimentary, coming from a place of awe and good will. And still, hurt landed with them. Because I felt like a fraud. I wanted those words to be true, yet they felt anything but at the moment. … Continue reading Coming Home in my Creative Work
Turning Creative Work into Income: What We Don’t Talk About Much
"What if I just go all-in on writing? What would that look like?" I asked myself...again... It's a conversation I've had with myself several times over. I want my words to make an impact. Whether in blog form, newsletter form, or my books, I want my writing to connect and make people feel something. Anything. … Continue reading Turning Creative Work into Income: What We Don’t Talk About Much
Knowing Too Much Information
Info Overload in a Digital Age We were never meant to have 24/7 access to global news in a world of over 8 billion people. Our brains were not wired to handle and process that much information at that speed. I also understand the irony of me typing all of this into a blog that … Continue reading Knowing Too Much Information
Connecting with Moms in their Reconstruction Journey
Therefore...continue to work out your salvation with fear and trembling... Philippians 2:12 When I first started blogging, writing, and working in mental health, I was very open about my faith and incorporating my faith in what I do. In the past year, I've been a little more quiet about it. Not because I don't have … Continue reading Connecting with Moms in their Reconstruction Journey