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Is There Such Thing as Work/Life Balance for Entrepreneurs?

They intoxicate themselves with work so they won’t see how they really are. —Aldous Huxley When I first started GroundFloor Media in my basement in April 2001, I am fairly confident that I had...

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Turning Opportunity into Entrepreneurship

On the surface, it doesn’t make a great deal of sense. One might assume that high unemployment rates equates to skilled individuals pounding the pavement and reaching out to their networks to secure a...

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Turning Opportunity into Entrepreneurship (part 2)

I guess I should start this post with lesson 5.5 – when starting your business, deadlines should be honored, but you should also be flexible enough to recognize when deadlines can be changed. That...

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A Droid vs. a Carrier Pigeon?

A BlackBerry, an iPhone, a Droid. A smoke signal, a carrier pigeon, and a good, old-fashioned land line. There are times that I would opt for the way things used to be in a nano second. Last week was...

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Overcoming fears; strengthening a team

I have a fear of heights. I also have a fear of snakes crawling all over me and of getting stuck in elevators with more than two other people. But I digress. To be perfectly clear, the actual ascent is...

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Taking Downtown by Storm

Last week I had an incredible opportunity to travel to Vancouver to spend 48 hours on the Downtown Denver Partnership’s (DDP) 3rd annual Urban Exploration trip. I had the chance to get to know an...

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What will your legacy be?

Last week I attended a beautiful funeral service for a good friend’s father. The chapel was standing room only, the flowers, plants and photos of his family were abundant, but the space and décor paled...

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GroundFloor Media At Inc. 5000: Why We Do What We Do

Ramonna and I are at the Inc. 500|5000 Conference (#Inc5000) in Phoenix and started our morning by listening to Simon Sinek, the inspirational author of Start with Why. His audience? A group of...

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The Road To Starting A Business: A Bit Of Advice

As I gear up to reengage with the Colorado Entrepreneur’s Organization after a personal hiatus, it hit me how many of us in the Chapter have been at that place of pure terror at the thought of going...

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Public Relations in the Digital Age

Laura and Ramonna at a recent speaking event Recently, I joined my colleagues Alexis and Ramonna to present to members of the Colorado Women’s Chamber of Commerce on PR in the Digital Age.  It’s an...

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Coding Culture: Programming a Best Place to Work

Ramonna and I are flying back from Austin having just presented a session we called “Coding Culture: Programming a Best Place to Work” at SXSWi. As most of you know, we are passionate about promoting...

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5 Ways Starting a Business is Like Learning to Surf

I recently decided to take my first ever solo vacation to Sayulita, Mexico. Earlier this year I made a list of the 52 Things I Wanted to Do in 2017 That Scared Me or I Had Never Done Before. Traveling...

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Working Girl: Strong Foundations are Always Built on Trust

photo courtesy of The Working Girl “Arriving a few minutes early to my interview, I was led to a conference room by Carrie, Director of First Impressions at GroundFloor Media, who very warmly welcomed...

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Denver Business Journal’s 2017 Corporate Citizen of the Year

“Laura Love was pregnant with her first child when she started GroundFloor Media from her unfinished Boulder basement in 2001. Now a single mother of three kids, she’s made “family first” a priority...

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The Leadership Podcast: The Metric of a Best Place to Work

“Laura Love is the Founder and Chief Cultural Officer of GroundFloor Media, Inc., which has been recognized four times by OUTSIDE magazine as one of the top five Best Places to Work in America...

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GroundFloor Media (GFM) and CenterTable Named one of the 50 Most...

Helping our community – as individuals and as a company – is simply the right thing to do. Being recognized for improving the quality of life in the communities where we do business is an honor that...

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Grants Awarded To Programs Serving Denver’s At-Risk Youth 2019: Get Grounded...

One of the best moments running GroundFloor Media (GFM) and its sister agency, CenterTable, is when we announce that our Get Grounded Foundation has awarded its latest round of community grants. Today...

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Creativity in Child Welfare: Executing Successful Live Virtual Events during...

As Ramonna mentioned in her recent “WFH” blog post, one silver lining from this global pandemic is that innovation and creativity are emerging at a rapid pace as organizations pivot and begin to see...

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Introducing the Good & Grounded Podcast

GFM Friends and Family,  We are excited to announce our new podcast series, Good & Grounded. As an extension of GroundFloor Media and CenterTable’s Doing My Part Colorado effort, we are...

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The Challenges with Prioritizing Community During a Pandemic

As 2020 is a year like no other, this year’s Get Grounded Foundation grant cycle was like no other. We launched the private 501(c )3 five years ago and I have participated in eight different grant...

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