Motherhood, creativity, and... managing a million moving parts? It's all in a day's work for the brilliantly dynamic Michelle Pellizzon. She's a business owner, artist, thinker, and now, a mom—a role that's both transformed and enhanced her creative world. In this convo, we dive into the not-so-tidy realities of balancing art and life, ditching perfection, and figuring out how to make space for everything when life feels like an ever-shifting game of Tetris.

When I got engaged in April 2024, I started planning an intimate wedding. We were married just six months later. Throughout the process, I had a long list of things to do, one of which was deciding my last name. Here are a few reasons why I’m keeping my maiden name (for now).

I was brainstorming authors to interview for our blog and I was imagining getting the chance to interview Jessica Knoll. Suddenly, I thought, “That’s too good to be true.” That would be too amazing. I was associating “too good to be true” with “not likely to happen.” Just then, I realized, I could challenge myself that anything that feels too good to be true is exactly what I will go for.

The following “Career Anchors” helped me clarify my career in a way I never have before. Before, if someone asked me about my values, I’d say words like “freedom” or “autonomy,” but those concepts were too broad to be truly clarifying.

Every month, I jump on a call with Andrea Jacobsen, a popular and talented painter who I’m fortunate to call my friend. On our call this month, I took feverish notes. It’s magical when Andrea starts telling me the answers I’ve been seeking. Here are my top takeaways from our recent chat.

Modern life is demanding and our time can be fractured in a million ways. If we allow it, our interests can completely fall to the wayside, which got me thinking: what would happen if I let my interest in writing slide?

Life is a lot easier (and we are easier on ourselves) when we view everything as an experiment. We don’t need to have all the answers—we just need to be able to run micro experiments to get the answers we need.

There’s the traditional financial model: work until you’re 60 and retire. Then came new age models like FIRE. In this article, I’m sharing my own financial model.

I first started doing Quarterly Strategy Sessions with my friend Stef Caldwell. We love peer-coaching one another through life and career. Stef has a way of seeing me more clearly than I see myself at times. Here’s how we structure our sessions and the benefits we’ve both noticed over time.

I miss the romanticism of studying at University. For the next few months, I’m treating my work like a fall semester. Here’s how…

How do we preserve our personhood, privacy, and well-being in a world that encourages us to share more of ourselves online?

I recently read Stretch by Scott Sonenshein on the value of stretching our resources instead of chasing after more.

Scott was particularly interested in “why some people and organizations succeed with so little, while others fail with so much.”

If your business is making $250,000 a year. It’s a lot easier to focus on growing that to $500,000 a year than it is to try and make $250,000 with outside investments. In this article, we’ll talk about building indestructible wealth.

At the beginning of 2022, I had a strong desire to find a business coach. I needed someone who had similar values and goals as me, but who was a few steps ahead of me.

My goal is to have a decades-long and fulfilling career. I’m not looking to clock-in-and-clock-out for a paycheck (although there is nothing wrong with that). Knowing this about myself helps me remember that slowing down is my ally.

Rich people buy objects. Wealthy people buy assets. But also, there’s so much more than that. Here’s my list of what makes someone truly wealthy.

I recently read We Should All Be Millionaires by Rachel Rodgers. I wanted to share some of the profound takeaways from the book, including excerpts.

I recently had the opportunity to interview NYT Bestseller author Mary Kubica and senior VP agent Carly Watters, among others. I’ve been asked a few times how I invited them to the show. Today, I’m sharing the pitch template I used.

I recently Googled “financial benchmarks for performance” and found quite a few rules but none of them resonated with me: You can measure your net worth against your parent’s at a similar age. You can compare how you’re doing compared to your peers (but that’s just a guess).

Some people get an ick feeling about the word retire. If you’re like me, maybe you envision yourself working/creating to some extent forever, but on your own terms. You can think of FIRE as the pivot point to when you can do whatever you want because income is flowing to you effortlessly whether you work or not. With FIRE, you can’t “run out of money.” Your wealth becomes self-regenerating.