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Stop! Collaborate and Listen... How To Constructively Receive Feedback

When you're about to receive feedback, do you freeze up with anxiety or want to bury your head in the sand? You’re not alone. Here’s a survivor’s guide for how to constructively receive feedback.

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Why Work Affirmations Are So Darn Powerful

Can a few sentences each morning make your team feel more confident, positive and bad ass? We think so! Here’s a deck of work affirmations that we’re all seriously hooked on and why we think they are they so powerful.

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Serving Up Gratitude

One of our team's favorite traditions is to share what we’re grateful for. Aside from our families, our friends, our pets, and so many other things, we love what we do – really! 

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A Brilliant Inkie’s Best Friend: Pets in the Workplace

We’re always excited to explore offices that allow pets — and the benefits are significant. While we may not qualify as a pet-friendly office, we wanted to celebrate our pets and their contributions to our team's brilliance.

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Brilliant Productivity: How We Get $^&! Done

I’m always curious how people stay organized and efficient so I turned to the Brilliant Ink team to find out their tried-and-true tips and tools for getting things done.

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Got Milk? A Working Mom's Solution for Travel

With big life transitions come new, challenging logistics. We have been pleasantly surprised by how many companies are supporting working women and helping make the transition into motherhood slightly less stressful.

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“Almost all good writing begins with terrible first efforts”

When in the midst of heavy writing projects for clients, I find myself looking for additional sources of inspiration to help me tackle what sometimes feels unsurmountable at first – editing, content development, messaging, the list goes on.

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Brilliant Inspo: Reigniting Your Creativity

A couple of months ago, I found myself feeling stuck. So, I began a personal quest to re-ignite my creative mojo. Guess what? By intentionally setting aside time to invite in creativity, I’ve taken new design risks, brought new creativity into my work and generally been happier.

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Peanut Butter & Downton Abbey

It’s no secret us Inkies are big fans of Brené Brown. She shows up in our blog posts (here and here, to name a few) and even helped inform our recent effort to update our values (read about them here). So we were all atwitter when we heard about her new Netflix special called, Brené Brown: The Call To Courage.

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