There’s a running joke among entrepreneurs that we are the only people who will work 80 hours a week for ourselves to avoid working 40 hours a week for someone else. This doesn’t always have to be true, but for many freelancers and small business owners, it hits a little …
Website Walkthrough: Progressive Asian American Christians
The History of PAAC Shortly after the 2016 presidential election, writer Liz Lin published an essay titled, “The Loneliness of the Progressive Asian American Christian.” At the end she linked to a new Facebook group for Progressive Asian American Christians (PAAC), created by Pastor Lydia Shiu. Within 24 hours, 300 …
The Duty of Creativity
During my graduate program and my first year of teaching, I was something of an overachiever. I stubbornly wrote all of my curriculum from scratch and diligently checked all the boxes on my lesson plans. Differentiated instruction, formative assessment, IEP accommodations, spiral curriculum, layered curriculum, social and emotional learning, multiple …
Website Walkthrough: Diverging Magazine
I’ve been part of Progressive Asian American Christians since late 2016. It’s pretty much impossible to overstate the positive effect of meeting thousands of people around the world to whom I don’t need to explain my Asian American Christian life experiences. PAAC is basically my church, though I am also …
Hey Mom, I’m Gonna Be a Blogger
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I surfed onto author Sara Connell’s mailing list through a Facebook post shared by a high school classmate who was one of Sara’s coaching clients. Thanks to Facebook stalking, I knew that this classmate had left a career in law to pursue writing, and I was curious about how she …
A Late Night Conversation
Priscilla looked up from her textbook as Artemis wrangled her laundry basket through their dorm room door. “That was the longest laundry expedition ever. I was about to send a search party out. You’ve never been out this late!” Artemis hated the blush that rushed from her cheeks to her …
Email Opt-in Ideas for Introverts and Extroverts
Today we’re going to work on the virtual welcome mat for your business: your opt-in. (Click here for a list of important email marketing lingo and a simple worksheet for planning your email strategy.) While your mom and best friend might sign up for your list just because they love …
Learn the Lingo of Email Marketing
If you’ve been avoiding setting up email marketing because it all sounds like Klingon, fear not! Today I’m going to go over the basic terms of email marketing and also help you start planning your email setup. Here’s a handy Google Doc worksheet you can download and fill in as …