Talking Turkey with the Team
Late Night Dougherty Nov. 2014 It is midnight at my kitchen table, and my husband is watching CNN and finishing his dinner. We’re two days away from the annual turkey bloodletting festival, and I feel...
View ArticleLeadership Conference – Making the Most of Your Business Trip
Making the Most of Your Conference Statistics show that people who attend their leadership conferences grow their businesses at a much faster rate than those that don’t. Let’s reverse engineer that and...
View ArticleMoney & Women, Los Angeles
My husband and I sat on our Highlands balcony sipping wine in the hot twilight and discussing money. Sweat rolled down my back because it was ninety-five degrees and because our adjustable rate...
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The Tiny Commission
Adventures in Network Marketing The Tiny Commission Brook Dougherty, March 14, 2014 The four-part law of attraction CD played over and over in my car for months. Gradually, I was learning to articulate...
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Walk Like A Lobster
WALK LIKE A LOBSTER – Brook Dougherty WHAT IS A LOBSTER? A lobster, in network-marketing-speak, is a person who appears to be successful and confident and has a strong network. They are usually people...
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The Home Office
Working in the Dog House by Brook Dougherty The decision to work at home is right up there with deciding to have another child. There’s never the right time, there’s never the right money, and like...
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Skin Dollars Making Sense
Lots of facial treatments are expensive. Trust me, I know. But this one isn’t. Yes, the photo is hideous, I got that, but wanted you to see how thick and dense this clay is. This was bought at...
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Big Girl Selling Pants
When you write and publish a memoir about your most stupid and embarrassing secret, a weird thing happens. Or at least it did to me. I didn’t do much to sell it except post it on my Facebook timeline....
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The Head Shot
Do you find it almost impossible to explain everything that you do while holding a wine glass in one hand and a chicken skewer in another? Do you have three different business cards, five Facebook...
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GET A WHIFF OF THAT
Stacy Johnson was doing her thing at the Pacific Palisades Chamber of Commerce mixer when I caught up with her. She was representing both her skincare business and her fragrance line, Bungalow. When...
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Philanthropy for Dogs
Would you like your dog to be so well fed, she’d be itch free, poop perfectly, have glowing ears and joints like butter? Do you want your dog to shriek, “My human loves me so much?” More importantly,...
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Nick Melvoin – A Shard of Hope
I really thought I was done with ANYTHING to do with LAUSD. Then Nick Melvoin told me he was running for School Board, and a dart of hope came back to life inside me, like a leaf on a plant I thought...
View ArticleFiring the Dragon Lady
Today I fired the dragon lady who has run my department of Woulda Coulda Shoulda since the day I dropped out of college in 1970. It was just before the holidays when I decided, based on a full six...
View ArticleTo My Republican Girlfriends – From Brook Dougherty
If you’re floundering around looking for a reason to choose Hillary, here’s what I think: Have you ever had a friend whose husband cheated on her? Did you ever go through countless hours with her as...
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How to Talk to Men with Dogs
Handsome Boy You are walking one way, a cute man with a dog is walking the other. He can even be on the other side of the street. He is alone. Hmmm. The dog is cute too. You like dogs. “I love...
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Visiting Artist – Poet – W. Isaac Simons “Blood”
Blood in our veins has a pulse, a regular, regulated pulse. Which sustains us with its prudent responsibility. It’s with us our entire lives, from Faraway Farm childhood on the rock, to B of A...
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Wife Beaters Are Called To Action
Donald Trump is inciting such a funky, creepy-ass class of people to vote. I didn’t even know the woodwork they’re coming out of was still made. The D is using his immigration platform to needle into a...
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Slip Dress
Slip Dress My mother’s downstairs apartment hangs like a dress in her closet waiting for me to grow into it. I sleep in her bed to become her. I remember things she said about men and making them...
View ArticleTrump Freedom Rodeo
Trump Freedom Rodeo He’s that guy who says you’ve got thick thighs like that’s a bad thing. He’s that boss with the small hands and the big thumb on the button of your business. He’s the dad of...
View ArticleSame Hustle. Different Drugs.
The thing about your birthday is that it’s going to happen whether you learned anything the year before or not. So mine is happening. Right now. Today. At the start of my birthday month, I gave myself...
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