Carlos is moving to Georgia. You know, the country that shares a border with Armenia, Azerbaijan, Russia and Turkey. I can’t tell you when exactly…because he doesn’t know yet. It will probably be at some point in the first half of 2022. This is incredible. Who is Carlos, you ask? And: how does this news […]
Author Archives: growmotely
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As leaders of companies, everything we do matters. How we design and lead meetings matters, too. Here at Growmotely, we’re not about having millions of meetings, but we do recognize the importance of gathering. We see ‘getting together’ – when we do it – as a way to create more of what we want when […]
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I recently took five days off. I’ve been moving through quite a transition, an evolution, over the past few weeks and as the call to further commit to a new way of being was bearing down on me I was increasingly feeling overwhelmed.
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Many of us are familiar with the concept of our ‘shadow selves’ – those parts of us that we would rather not be. Carl Jung brought these ideas to us in the 20th century and in doing so gave us some incredible tools to understand ourselves and our behaviors on a deeper level. The concept […]
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Off the back of a rousing chat a couple of weeks ago with Growmotely’s Operations Director, Cass Biyang, I ‘dug out’ a TED Talk that a friend had sent me a few years back. It was a talk given by the author Taiye Selasi, in which she breaks open the question that is so often asked: ‘Where […]
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Do you say ‘thank you’ (in Japanese) when you find a coin on the ground? And: do you say ‘thank you’ (in Japanese) when you pay your electricity bill? If not – WHAT?! We need to talk. Ken Honda thinks you should. And I do, too! Let me explain. OK – so here’s how the […]
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It’s not uncommon for me to be swimming upstream, going against the grain, or having a parallel experience to what the mainstream narrative is telling us we should be having. This moment in time is no exception. While I hear talk of ‘The Great Resignation’ everywhere, in my alternate Universe I’m experiencing ‘The Great Redefinition of Work’ […]
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Here’s the story with boundaries. If you invest your time in up-skilling yourself in the realm of ‘how to set good boundaries’, you will see your life transform before your very eyes. What we say ‘yes’ to and what we say ‘no’ to determines our reality. Yes. No. Yes. No. Yes. No. Just like you might […]
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One of the hardest things for so many of us to learn is delegation. Especially for us founders. At one point or another we were doing everything, and wearing all the hats, and then over time we gradually have to let go of things and hand them over as the business grows. For some of us […]
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Two people walk into a bar. A resume-writer and a location-independent remote professional. Which one gets up and walks out after a dissatisfying 30-minute conversation? You guessed it! The location-independent remote professional. I’ll come back to this story in just a bit; let me first introduce myself… Beloved job-seekers – and the larger Growmotely family. […]