Alyssa Thiel, calligrapher and founder of Parris Chic Boutique, will be joining us in Chapel Hill to teach calligraphy and a breakout session on growing and building a successful team. Today, she’s sharing a little peek into her team building talk and offering three ways to prepare your team for a new member! […]

     Dominique Broadway, personal finance expert, is a TSOS Chapel Hill speaker this fall. We are so excited to have her come and share all of her financial wisdom with us! In October she will be teaching two sessions: “Managing & Making More Money as an Entrepreneur” + “Investing & Retirement Planning for the Creative […]

  Have you heard? Instagram is changing. And those three words have given many of you small business owners quite a bit of anxiety. So, let’s talk about it. Take a deep breathe, grab a cup of coffee, and let’s hash it out. What can we do to make sure this new change doesn’t affect […]

  I was home from work, my littlest was napping, and my three-year-old was awake. It was that precious time when it is just us two, my 3 year-old and I. A time where I can have a focused conversation about her day, ask her who the star was at school, ask her if she […]

  When someone asks me the difference between film and digital photographs, it takes everything in me not to pull up my soapbox, stand atop it and proclaim “everything.” Instead of jumping immediately to that though, I want to give you some perspective. I remember once having to stay in a little cottage on the […]

  Previously, we discussed what you should do before you seek to create brand partnerships. If you are just now joining us, make sure to read about it here before you continue! So, now that you know the DNA of your brand, and you have chosen people to partner with based on the knowledge that […]