Back Stage with Staging Diva

Backstage with Staging Diva for January 2012

If you’ve just joined the 20,000-member Staging Diva community, welcome and if you’ve been here for awhile, thank you for your participation! I look forward to helping all of you make 2012 your best year yet! I don’t generally make New Year’s resolutions because I know how often we fall off course and think, “Oh [...]

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Backstage with Staging Diva on December 2011

If you’re one of the 350 new members of the Staging Diva community this month, welcome! December marks 7 years since the creation of the Staging Diva Home Staging Business Training Program, which I first mapped out from my laptop at Starbucks while my 10 year old was on a playdate! At that point, I’d [...]

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Backstage with Staging Diva in November 2011

I stepped out of my comfort zone and all things Staging Diva in October and entered an international competition for Women in Business, the first time I’ve done anything like that in 22 years as an entrepreneur. Much to my surprise, I’m a finalist in 4 Stevie Awards categories: * Best Mentor/Coach of the Year * [...]

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Backstage with Staging Diva for October 2011

Last month’s first post of the Staging Diva Dispatch blog I wrote, “I love this time of year because I always feel like it’s a fresh start.” Just as I encourage my students to do, I’ve really been pushing myself outside my own comfort zone to grow personally and professionally. One of my big hurdles has [...]

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Backstage with Staging Diva in September 2011

September means back to school for the kids, but it also means uncovering new ways to accelerate your own path to success. I love this time of year because I always feel like it’s a fresh start. While I don’t miss all that homework and pressure of exams and term papers, I do consider myself [...]

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Backstage with Staging Diva for August 2011

My teen was away studying at Columbia University all last month so perhaps that accounts for my general mushiness in some of this month’s Staging Diva Dispatch posts. As I watch her try to figure out what she wants to do for a career, I’m so reminded of how important it is to notice what we’re [...]

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Backstage with Staging Diva for July 2011

One of the perks of teaching home stagers for more than 6 years is that I get to watch my students’ home staging businesses mature. They really come into their own and reap the rewards of doing so. Naturally, there are new Staging Diva students starting up their own home staging businesses all the time. [...]

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Backstage with Staging Diva in June 2011

We’re just heading into high school exams in our house and there’s been much talk of going away to college. I’m clearly not ready! Other than being an entrepreneur, parenting has been my entire focus since my 30s and I’m in my 50s now. What will I do when all my evenings and weekends are [...]

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Backstage with Staging Diva in May 2011

I’m the first to admit that I’m not much of a “fashionista.” I used to be, but that was at least 25 years ago! I’d never heard the term “fascinator” until about a month before the royal wedding when these fancy hats and headpieces seemed to pop up on all the morning talk shows while [...]

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Backstage with Staging Diva in April 2011

Even though I’ve been a professional home stager since 2002 and have trained thousands of Staging Diva Graduates, I’m still continually inspired by how much I can change the energy and look of a room simply by editing and rearranging what’s already there. Working on resale homes is a more creative process than I would [...]

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