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Viva Nica! The Power of Peer Groups and Getting Away

February 27, 2018

By Kristen Harris My entrepreneur peer group took a trip to Nicaragua last week. This one sentence and trip touch on three things I believe to be important in my life: time away (a trip), new experiences (to Nicaragua) and finding a tribe (my peer group). Time Away Today information is always available in the cloud and on our devices. We have the ability to work 24/7/365, but should we? I say no, and there’s evidence to back me up. Over the past few years, there have been several studies

Self-Love: Ten Tips to Take Care of Me

February 14, 2018

By Kristen Harris It’s Valentine’s Day, so who do you love? Please, please, say “me!” This is the season for love and there is no one more important to love than yourself. Yes, go get that card and sweet gift for your special someone, then get right back here and give yourself a little self-love. Not even sure what that is? To me, self-love is really about being nice to yourself, doing things that you love to do, treating yourself the way you would treat anyone else that you really

Spreading The Love

February 13, 2018

By Catherine Lang-Cline We go through our lives doing the same thing every day. We wake up, we eat, we go to work, we hang out with family and friends, we go to bed, and restart the next day the same way. A normal life can be a lovely thing. Sometimes we want something more. Sometimes we wish we could make some sort of difference outside of the walls of our home, our work, wherever our life is taking place. Let’s say that the best thing about your job is

Rethinking Life Balance

January 19, 2018

By Catherine Lang-Cline You can find countless books and articles about how to achieve life balance. It seems like there are a number of ways people believe that this can be achieved but perhaps we need to rethink the concept. What if it wasn’t just a balance, what if it was just life as we choose it. Being a person with a career; as well as, having a family does present some challenges in that I want to have time for everything. Ultimately it comes down to choice. Let’s think

Why You Should Tell Your Team to Take a Break and Go Outside

January 18, 2018

By Emma Seppala and Johann Berlin for the Harvard Business Review Wellness programs are becoming an integral priority for most human resource managers. After all, research shows that a happier workplace is more productive. To this end, workplaces are adding health-related perks from exercise rooms to yoga classes. Leaders participate in mindfulness and compassion trainings and are coached to learn emotional intelligence. However, there is one important wellness factor that many are forgetting even though it may be the most potent of all: access to green spaces. Greenery isn’t just an air-freshener

Health Matters: Why We Focus on Wellness in the Workplace

January 17, 2018

By Kristen Harris When Catherine and I started Portfolio Creative we set out to create the kind of company we’d want to work for. Because, well, we do work here, and so do other people. We both came from demanding environments and knew how important it would be to take care of ourselves in order to do our best work for clients and talent. In the beginning, this just meant taking time to exercise and eat a healthy lunch. Over the years tactics have changed but the goal remains the

To Be More Creative, Schedule Your Breaks

January 16, 2018

By: Jackson G. Lu, Modupe Akinola, and Malia Mason for the Harvard Business Review Imagine that on a Friday afternoon, before leaving work to start your weekend, you are asked to solve two problems that require creative thinking. Do you: Spend the first half of your time attempting the first problem and the second half of your time attempting the second Alternate between the two problems at a regular, predetermined interval (e.g., switching every five minutes) Switch between the problems at your own discretion If you are like the hundreds

How To Plan For A Successful Year

January 15, 2018

By Catherine Lang-Cline It’s January and this is the year! This is the year you are going to keep every resolution! We are going to start by making them very measurable and very possible. Just as always, January 1st comes every year and it serves as a great opportunity to try something new or get a “re-do” in the coming year. Still working on some resolutions from last year? Well, they were probably not worded in a way that could show how they could be measured. One of the best

Change Your Life By Helping Other Lives

November 21, 2017

By Catherine Lang-Cline Let’s be honest. Sometimes after doing everything that you need to do to keep your own life on the rails, it seems that you are too tired to help another individual, or there’s simply, not enough time left in the day. But that’s not true, you’re just thinking too big. You can start helping others and in return, start to reap more happiness in your own life. When I was growing up, my family didn’t have much. My parents stretched their one income to cover themselves and

Scholar to Graduate: My 10KSB Experience

May 25, 2017

By Kristen Harris Apparently people in Boston like to hide valuables under a mattress. Earlier this year I found a treasure in Boston too, although it wasn’t $20M in cash (and thankfully doesn’t require federal investigation). For the past twelve weeks I was a scholar in National Cohort 7 of the Goldman Sachs 10,000 Small Businesses program (10KSB). Funded by Goldman Sachs, with curriculum developed by Babson College, 10KSB is a program with the goal of helping 10,000 small business owners grow their business. I participated in the blended learning

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