Fellow Badass:

Did you see the video I sent out on Thursday called “Stop the SLAVERY”? The video with me off-roading in a golf cart in the Dominican Republic?

In the video I invited you to the debut of our NEWEST webinar, “Work and Play Everyday: How To Create A Lifestyle Business.”

Why?

You signed up for these emails and I feel obligated to deliver VALUE. Yes…crucial tactical information YOU HAVE TO CONSIDER if you want to escape the hamster wheel of trading hours for money.

So let me do my job and teach you these valuable skill sets. You do your job and get your Bad-ass on this webinar.

Register HERE. NOW.

It’s this Wednesday night at 7pm EST!!!!!
Read below for details….

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I’m concerned. I’m watching many of you be a slave to your job. It’s ugly.

Are you a slave to your job? Watch this 2 minute video to find out…
and to witness Michelle Villalobos run my golf cart off the road in the Dominican Republic!!!!!!!!!!! Super Fun!!!!

Click HERE to watch & comment!

Here’s the deal…When you build a house from the ground up, each element of floor plan is careful outlined before the construction starts. Building a business should be the same. You should carefully outline how much time you want to work, where you want to work, and who you want to work with.

I’m watching too many of you begrudgingly live your life around your business, rather than architecting your business around the lifestyle you want. As a result you’re exhausted, confused, frustrated and disheartened.

Click HERE to watch and escape the trap!

Fellow Badass:

Today marks the end of a roller coaster week, for both Jessica Kizorek and Badass Business Women.

Before you take off for the long weekend, watch this video clip HERE. Imagine yourself in my shoes, finally gaining widespread traction after two full years of working to turn vision into reality.

Fellow Badass:

I’m concerned. I’m watching many of you be a slave to your job. It’s ugly.

Are you a slave to your job? Watch this 2 minute video to find out…
and to witness Michelle Villalobos run my golf cart off the road in the Dominican Republic!!!!!!!!!!! Super Fun!!!!

Click HERE to watch & comment!

Here’s the deal…When you build a house from the ground up, each element of floor plan is careful outlined before the construction starts. Building a business should be the same. You should carefully outline how much time you want to work, where you want to work, and who you want to work with.

I’m watching too many of you begrudgingly live your life around your business, rather than architecting your business around the lifestyle you want. As a result you’re exhausted, confused, frustrated and disheartened.

Click HERE to watch and escape the trap!

Fellow Badass:

I’ve gotten many emails asking how the NY media tour
is going. Today you can see for yourself!

Today at 1:20pm EST I’ll be appearing on FoxNews.com LIVE!!!!!

Go to http://live.foxnews.com/ and be part of the ride to put
Badass Business Women on the map in BIG ways!

Fellow Badass:

I love you.

I love you cause you’re a badass.

I love the way you care.
I love the way you think big.
I love the way you take risks.
I love the way you get when you’re excited.
I love the way you light up when you’re doing what you love.
I love the way you get weak in the knees when you go out on a limb.
I love the way you take the world by storm.
I love the way you strut your stuff.

I love you.

Thanks for being in my life.

Fellow Badass:

Hopefully your Monday morning is off to a better start than mine.

The alarm went off this morning at 3:45am – never a good sign. I’m sitting on a 6am flight to New York this morning with mixed emotions. On one hand I’m excited because my Badass publicist Tom Estey has lined up live studio interviews on major national television. On the other hand I’m scared and overwhelmed. I should eat but my stomach won’t cooperate.

It’s scary to put yourself out there.

Part of being a Badass is being scared. Some people want to be fearless. Me? I can’t claim the same. Even right now in this dark airplane, with the tears welling up in my eyes, I’m embracing the fear. I’m embracing the self-doubt, the anxiety, and the panic of going so far out of my comfort zone. The questions keep coming…”Will it work? … Will they love me? … Will I get it right?” … and the only thing I can do is put one red sequin boot in front of the other.

There comes a point where you have to choose what kind of emotional experience you want at work. You get to say. Do you want boredom? Safety? Monotony? Or do you want adventure? Innovation? Risk? For me, the former is more excruciating than the later. YOU get to design it.

Right now I’ve got every single one of my chips on the table. I’m all in. It’s scary, but the fear is fueling me.

How do you handle fear? Does it stop you or does it fuel you? Comment & Wish me luck here: badassbusinesswomen.org/blog

*NOTE: On Wednesday February 22nd at 7pm EST, Michelle Villalobos and I are hosting a brand new webinar called “Work & Play Everyday: How to Build a Lifestyle Business” Click HERE to save your spot!

(As Featured on Google News & Huffington Post)

I’ve been my own boss for 8 years. I LOVE my life.  People often ask me, “How do you do what you love AND pay the bills?”

First off:  I’m a TERRIBLE employee.  Some people consider it a strength. Some consider it a weakness. Either way, I am really bad at taking orders.  It’s genetic…I blame it on my entrepreneurial father, Bill Kizorek.  My whole life I’ve wanted to make the rules.  Which is exactly why I HAD to be my own boss.

How do I know this? I probably would have jumped through the window of the 20^th story office building I worked in after college if I had I been forced to stay longer than 365 days.

Most entrepreneurs I know are rule breakers.  They are rebellious and fiercely independent. Are you?

• Do you resent when people tell you what to do?
• Are you willing to take big risks and trust yourself?
• Are you disciplined enough to be your own boss when no one’s looking over your shoulder?
• How will you create both consistent cash flow and self-fulfillment?

If I had it my way, I would spend my entire day working on MY personal projects – Badass Business Women, Make Them BEG, and my new secret blog I obsess over day and night. Though each one is designed for profit, not all of them generate significant cash flow YET.

So how do you do what you love AND pay the bills?

In order to bank roll my independent projects, I’ve had to build a business that generates good money. I’ve had to hustle for clients.  I’ve had to develop the capacity to do valuable work in exchange for money.  I’ve forced myself to learn how to attract clients and sell them on my storytelling skills.

It’s a fine line.   At heart I’m an artist.  I’m a free spirit.  I want to do my “art” of speaking, teaching, inspiring, writing.  I want to create brands.  I want to connect with people.  I want to travel the globe.  I want to tell stories that need to be told.

But the real money comes from the CEOs who hire me to evaluate THEIR brand.  To innovate for THEM.  To design the future of THEIR company.  They pay me for access to my brain, and the dozens of brilliant vendors I bring to the table.

Am I selling out?  Not really.  I’m doing what I love…For other people.

And I’ve created a pretty cool life.  I don’t check email on my phone.  My clients don’t call me.  I call them.  They love me.  I love them.

So…do what you love, but make good money doing it.  Keep working yourself closer and closer to the ideal.  I know you want it to happen overnight.  But once you earn it, you’ll revel in it.

Ultimately no one will tell me what to do.  Not even my mother. (Sorry mom)

Don’t you want that same thing?

Fellow Badass:

As we celebrate the impact of Martin Luther King, Jr. today, I wanted to relay something my mom said last week on the topic that TOTALLY FREAKED ME OUT.

I talk about my dad frequently, and I’m often asked… “What about your mom?”  My mom is an angelic creature who is the perfect compliment to my dad and I.  While my dad and I are Type A overachiever world-conquering Alpha dogs, my mother is nurturing, grounded and patient.  She takes care of us.  We do what we do because of her.  She’s amazing.

Last week in the car she turned and said to me, “You might want to consider changing the part of your press release bio…the part about Martin Luther King, Jr.  I think you’re going to get a lot of crap for it, and I don’t want to see you come under fire for comparing yourself to him.”

So here’s how the last line of my 2-page bio read:  “With her forthright punk rock aura softened by the warm smile of a princess, Jessica Kizorek is a rockin’ modern day heroine of boundless value. “Above all else, I love creating the future,” Kizorek concludes. “Though it’s scary to say out loud, I know in my heart I was put on this planet to make a huge impact the same way Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. did.  If I die before making that kind of mark, I will not have honored myself and what I’m capable of.” At age 30, she’s only just begun to turn the plethora of forward thinking ideas in her head into revolutionary realities.”

I trust my mother.  So I immediately went into an adrenaline panic, wondering why I had the audacity to say that in the first place. That bio had been sent to the biggest national media outlets in the country!!!  Am I going to get grilled for that?  Criticized? Teased? Ridiculed?  Discredited?  For about an hour I wanted to take it back.

But here’s the deal:  It’s not arrogant.  It’s ambitious.  If more people created their life with the intention of making a difference on the level MLK Jr. did, this world would be a dramatically different place.

What is your life about?  How much impact are you going to make?  It will be a choice, not a coincidence.

And…are you willing to stick your neck out to declare who you are and what you’re up to?

YOU could be the next MLK, Jr.

It’s scary, but it’s true.

Fellow Badass:

In 2011, you were criticized and judged many times.

Many times YOU criticized and judged YOURSELF.

I’m here right now to do the opposite.

I’m here to be proud of you.  Do you accept?

I’m proud of you for dreaming big.

I’m proud of you for expressing yourself.

I’m proud of you for making make mistakes.

I’m proud of you for forgiving yourself.

I’m proud of you for sticking with it.

I’m proud of you for quitting the things that didn’t work.

I’m proud of you for taking risks.

I’m proud of you for being a badass.

I’m proud.

Hope you heard that.

Now…can you be proud of yourself for just one moment?

It’s WAY more fun that way