Contrary to what many people believe, image is not just about how you dress. In a book by Sylvia Di Giusto, The Image of Leadership, she explains that while your clothing is important, your image is every aspect of how you portray yourself, including your visual appearance, how you communicate, how you behave, and even...
The choices you make with relationships is the biggest determinant of business, career, and financial success. Whom you choose to love, and allow to love you, has a direct impact on your long-term happiness and success, or lack of it, as an entrepreneur. There is one rule of love and business you must always...
How do you rise up from eating out of garbage cans and wearing Salvation Army clothing as a child to getting a full-ride to Spellman College and Rutgers School of Law where you graduate magna cum laude and then run two successful businesses, which ultimately leads to appearing in a Hollywood movie? If you...
When we started planning this edition of Smart Hustle Magazine, we knew that we wanted to concentrate on the power of networking, an area that many Smart Hustlers should be focused on. It was only natural that, when choosing an entrepreneur who epitomized everything that is “relentless networking,” we chose BJ Dowlen, Founder and...
The first time I competed in the Victoria Marathon I was swept away by the setting - ocean views, horse-drawn buggies clopping along Wharf Street, sailboats navigating Inner Harbour and classic west coast architecture. And then there’s the run. If you’ve ever experienced the legendary runner’s “wall” you’ll know how tough it is to keep moving when...
If you live in New York State and have received a traffic ticket, you may already be familiar with this next person I had the opportunity to interview: my friend and the very successful entrepreneur Matthew Weiss. For those of you who have not had the pleasure of being represented by one of the...
Power posing. Superman does it. Wonder Woman does it. Do you do it? Power posing is standing in your most confident pose for two minutes. It is said to increase testosterone, decrease cortisone and increase feelings of power and tolerance for risk. There’s more to it, but for this discussion that’s what it is; standing in place...
At some point in your collegiate studies, a well-meaning professor likely told you that learning a foreign language would exponentially increase your value on the job market. But have you given this advice the credence it deserves or did you hone those Spanish skills just enough to satisfy the GPA requirements? As an entrepreneur,...
JJ Ramberg imagines a world in which shopping equates to social impact, and she has planted a seed for change with her company Goodshop (which she co-founded with her brother Ken). The entrepreneur is also the host of Your Business on MSNBC and bestselling author of the book "It's Your Business: 183 Essential Tips that...
Barbara Viteri, the CEO and founder of Viteri Style Management, a consulting firm that provides business management solutions for small interior design firms, comes from humble roots that you would not think would lead to her developing a successful business in the design industry. However, it did. I had the chance to sit with Viteri...
