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We Don’t Do Marketing

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I Can Do All Things Through Adderall & Shaken Espressos

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Kim Bode presents at the Michigan Celebrates Small Business Summit

You Are the Face of Your Business—Start Acting Like It

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The Sisterhood: show up, speak up, and lift up

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Airport Etiquette (Or Why I’m Considering a Career at the DOT)

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The No-BS Guide to Business Travel (From Women Who Actually Know)

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The Dallas Cowboy Cheerleaders & Gratitude

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We Don’t Do Marketing

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I Can Do All Things Through Adderall & Shaken Espressos

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You Are the Face of Your Business—Start Acting Like It

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Reality TV: The Bode Edition

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We Don’t Do Marketing

(If I hear this one more time, I'm gonna throat punch someone.) If I had a dollar for every time a technical or contracting company said, “We don’t do marketing*,”

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Business Owner Failure Leadership Small Business Small Business Owner

I Can Do All Things Through Adderall & Shaken Espressos

"Can a person live on iced, shaken espressos only?" I texted my best friend, Sue. "Yes," she responded. That, right there, is why Sue is my best friend. The past

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Business Owner Leadership personal branding Small Business

You Are the Face of Your Business—Start Acting Like It

It was standing room only. Business owners packed into a room to talk about something most of us avoid like the plague: ourselves. Not our services.Not our logos.Not our team’s

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Business Owner Failure Leadership Small Business Small Business Owner

Reality TV: The Bode Edition

Imposter syndrome won this past weekend. I think I spent most of Sunday staring at a wall, contemplating all of my failures. What a great time. Highly recommend spending your

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Hey, I'm Bode.
Writer of musings.

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I can’t wait to share all the things you never knew you needed to know.

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I own 8THIRTYFOUR Integrated Communications.

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Spoiler: we’re that weapon.