Building a Business
How to Get Out of Your Own Way
There are three situations guaranteed to land you and your business in the mud. The only way to get out is to see these problems for what they are and move forward. Ready?
Erika Napoletano
Branding Strategist, Learning from Mistakes, Helping Others Not Make the Same Ones
at RHW Media
Ever been stuck? Well, Erika Napoletano gets restless brands and the people brave enough to lead them unstuck and shortens the distance between where you are and "hell yeah." She's a twice-published, award-winning author of The Power of Unpopular and a TED Editor's Pick for her 2012 talk, "Rethinking Unpopular." Discover business, uncensored at Unstuck.LIFE.
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