Category: Business

Wherever your energy goes … attention flows.  And, of course a business takes energy.  However, so many times our energy gets diverted in other directions. When I first started working from home, I would see a messy room and feel compelled to clean it.  I would have to run and errand.  I would look at the overflowing laundry and the […]

There’s never been a better time to start a business.  With the growth in technology and most people doing business online, many brick-and-mortar stores are going out of business and the days of those remaining are numbered.  Just look at our malls.  Many of the stores are closing because just about anything you need can be purchased through Amazon. Starting […]

Even after being an attorney for 30 years and having my own business for the past 21 years, sometimes I still feel like an imposter. Imposter Syndrome is “a psychological pattern in which an individual doubts their skills, talents or accomplishments and have a persistent internalized fear of being exposed as a fraud.” In our society, people look at professionals […]

Escape from Alcatraz, you know the movie, but now you created a prison that is holding you captive in your business and it’s time to escape.  I don’t mean sell your business.  If you are like me, you built your business so you could have freedom but what you did was build yourself another J-O-B.  You are putting way too […]

1: Do you love being knee-deep in records and solving puzzles? That’s what legal nurse consulting is about. You will be given a stack of records and asked to solve the puzzle. 2: Are you able to focus your attention? As a legal nurse consultant, given a stack of records, you will need to be able to focus on the […]

A frequent question I am asked from new business owners is, “What should I name my business?” Keep in mind that people are not hiring you for the name but are hiring you for you!  Regardless of what name or website name you choose, I strongly suggest owning your name as a url.  Unfortunately, for mine, loriebrown.com was already taken. […]

Every year in December I have a retreat with my staff but because of the CV-19 pandemic, this time around we are holding it next month instead.  We meet to plan for the year ahead. Back in the day I used to run my legal nurse consulting business in my garage (every good thing, like Apple Computers, started in garage, […]

I am often asked by nurse business owners, “Can I hire someone to do my sales?” If your business is new, you are the face of your business.  No one can share your passion and values like you.  People need to know, like and trust you before they will want to work with you.  Your story of how you got […]

Have you ever found a new car that you think is oh so right for your personality and after you purchase it, suddenly, you see the same kind of car everywhere on the road? That is called the Tetris Effect. It’s not that the company started producing more cars and then more people bought them but, you probably did not […]

As a business owner, we can make decisions from faith or decisions from fear.  Making decisions from fear will probably keep you stuck versus making decisions from faith knowing that your business will be successful and what you’re doing now is ultimately going to help it grow. A lot of times I hear business owners make excuses that they don’t […]