This week’s theme: Create Anything You Choose What does it mean to be able to create anything you choose? There are certain definitions of creation that are not possible for us, but to create anything means to have the inspiration, spirit, and choice…

It’s just human nature that our thoughts and behaviors are based on our emotional value system. Business, at its core, is nothing more than one or more people creating something of enough perceived value that one or more other people are willing to…

Podcast EpisodeThe Rhonda Grant Show Apr 2023 Episode Description A remarkable and insightful discussion about life, love and soul with Dixie Gillaspie. She offers steps you can take to help you navigate your journey and demonstrates ideas of how you…

I’m often asked what company policies need to be reviewed, changed or implemented in what is being termed “the age of #MeToo.” My answer is always, “What is it about your culture that puts you at risk?” This doesn’t mean we don’t need to discuss…

In October 2017, the #MeToo hashtag was used by more than 4.7 million people in 12 million Facebook posts during the first 24 hours alone. But you don’t have to be on social media to be aware of the impact of the #MeToo movement. Since that initial…

Image credit: Hinterhaus Productions | Getty Images Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. As the site of both an emergency landing by Southwest Air flight 1380, and the viral video of two men being arrested for refusing to…

Image credit: Audtakorn Sutarmjam | EyeEm | Getty Images Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Most company founders didn’t start a business to stay small. So assuming that you that founded your business with the intention of…

For many centuries, business has been a masculine centric power structure. Countless studies have been done regarding the effectiveness of women in leadership roles. Through this talk Dixie Gillaspie shows us how Science teaches us that feminine…

By Dixie Gillaspie / Entrepreneur April 8, 2015 10:44 AM EDT Three Dog Night got something right when they sang, “One is the loneliest number that you’ll ever do.” And as entrepreneurs we pretty much feel that’s the number we’re doing most of the…

How to avoid giving up in the dark before dawn, the snow storm before spring, the funk before the breakthrough. — Never cut a tree down in the wintertime. Never make a negative decision in the low time. Never make your most important decisions when…

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Remember when general wisdom said you should never mix business and politics? Then “don’t rock the boat” shifted to “be controversial to stand out from the crowd.” Companies experimented…

Research explains the degree to which emotional pain does, in fact, hurt us. Dixie Gillaspie explains this everyday abuse. – Several years ago at a conference I heard a speaker open his presentation with these words: “If you’re fat it’s your fault.…

Pause a moment. Lift your eyes from the screen and look around you. What do you notice? How much of what is so “there” and obvious now, even as you resume reading, was even on your radar before you stopped reading? Before you set an intention to pay…

When the news broke last month that Amazon had offered to buy Whole Foods for $13.7 billion, the internet went crazy. Twitter had us in stitches for days with their memes referring to the specialty food store’s reputation for expensive and limited…

It may be true that not everyone needs to be fired up about what they do for a living. Perhaps it’s also true that people who are fired up about what they do for a living don’t necessarily live happier lives. That’s hard for me to fathom because for…

Some work weeks are five Mondays in a row. That’s life. Or at least that’s life as an entrepreneur. By that fifth Monday, with fires that won’t go out and the people whose opinion we value mostly being wet blankets, it’s normal to be asking if it’s…

Oh, the joy and pain of starting something new. When Jared Easley, host of Starve the Doubts podcast, asked me if I planned to attend this year’s Podcast Movement conference I couldn’t say “no” fast enough. Jared didn’t take it personally, even…

I can’t even count the number of times I’ve heard, “I want employees who really take ownership in the business.” Few of the people who said it could tell me what that looked like in practical application. Most of them really meant they wanted…

Every year about this time entrepreneurs start thinking about what they’re going to do to make the next year better than any year that’s come before. Or at least that’s what we say we’re thinking about and hopefully it’s true for you. There are…