Professor Alison Wood Brooks

What do you mean?

The world of business looks entirely different today than it did 15 years ago.

Back then, building a brand meant having huge budgets, warehouses, office space, and lots and lots of staff.

But now you can start a business with your laptop, an idea, and the right tools.

And I would know more so than anybody else because that's exactly what I did.

Shopify is one of our long-standing sponsors on this show, and they're a brand I often refer people to when they're starting their businesses, because it's a tool that contains many more tools within itself.

And when you're starting out, everything is everywhere.

It's messy and it's confusing, so having everything in the same place is incredibly useful.

Shopify puts store design, payments, inventory, shipping, and even AI tools all in one place.

And you can sell directly from your website or on social media, essentially wherever your customers spend their time.

It's truly a brilliant business tool.

So if you want to give it a go, head to shopify.com slash Bartlett and sign up for your $1 per month trial period.

That's shopify.com slash Bartlett.

Are there anything else that, you know, we talked about death by a thousand cuts as it relates to being a 10 out of 10 conversationalist and likeable person.

Are there any of these other small things that we do which are harming us but are tiny that most people don't know they're doing?

Do you think much about...

how our emotional state is impacting our ability to accomplish any of these things.

Because I think the days where I'm least likely to be kind are the days where I haven't slept.

Yeah.

I should probably be avoiding all conversations that day.