by Michelle Markwart Deveaux | Mar 18, 2021 | business, Pricing
In going along with the blog (What’s in your hour?) I wrote a while back, and on the heels of giving a fun presentation on pricing at this past weekend’s Vocology in Practice conference, I wrote an extra-special blog on some pricing basics. I am super...
by Michelle Markwart Deveaux | Mar 4, 2021 | business
It’s true! It’s true! While the planning and the thinking and the setting it all up began in the Spring of 2016… The SpeakEasy Cooperative opened its doors in March of 2017, to little fanfare and in much timidness. Now? The SpeakEasy Cooperative is...
by Michelle Markwart Deveaux | Feb 24, 2021 | business, Motivation, Technique
BLOG ONE IN A PAIR. How many of you have wonderful, caring, well-meaning, incredible humans in your life that insist upon protecting you by telling you about how hard showing up for yourself and your dreams and goals is? If you’re like me, you’ve had to...
by Michelle Markwart Deveaux | Feb 3, 2021 | business
I cannot implore you enough: please, please please, please stop selling your time. Time is merely the tool we use to deliver what we do sell – which is so much more than our time. How we move from this paradigm can be handled in many ways. I’d like us to...
by Michelle Markwart Deveaux | Mar 15, 2019 | business
When I watched Mary Poppins Returns around Christmas last year, I ugly cried. UG-LEE.I wasn’t expecting to get hit with a ton of emotional bricks and have an illuminating transformative moment in a dark theater. And I certainly wasn’t expecting to be...
by Michelle Markwart Deveaux | Jan 2, 2019 | business
I wrote a thing for myself. A reminder. A manifest. A pep-talk. I thought you may relate, so decided to share it: Dear Self (you amazing and delightfully silly and grace-y person, you), You have a choice. Yes, you. You have a choice in how your voice works, your...
by Michelle Markwart Deveaux | May 28, 2018 | business
Pinball is fun when you are the playfield and not the ball. The playfield is the part of a pinball machine that all the cool dohickeys reside. The place where pinballs get trapped, ramped, orbited, flipped, and bumped. Are you the playfield or the pinball? Do your...
by Michelle Markwart Deveaux | Mar 3, 2018 | business, Teaching, Technique
What would you say if I told you that your mindset doesn’t matter? That all of your goals are achievable no matter what you believe? What if I told you that it DOES NOT matter how prepared you are. Or how knowledgeable? “You don’t have to be great to...
by Michelle Markwart Deveaux | Dec 17, 2017 | business
We are often challenged to defend pricing. I want you to defend your pricing – to yourself, at least. So I ask, What’s in your hour? Let’s get to some pricing decisions without horrific pain and guilt. It’s part of this business we signed up...
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