Lunchtime Lesson: Changing Business with Mindfulness and Emotional Intelligence – Fri Nov 14th

How Mindfulness and Emotional Intelligence Can Change the Way You Do Business: How can a practice rooted in thousands of years of tradition change your approach to business now? What is Emotional Intelligence, and why are there all those blog posts about how valuable it is? How are Mindfulness and Emotional Intelligence linked? Tech startup […]
Entrepreneur Magazine quotes Natasha at WORK Petaluma

5 Tips for Authentic Networking in a Co-Working Space Written by Kate Swoboda – Contributor, Author, Creator of YourCourageousLife.com WORK Petaluma was quoted in Entrepreneur Magazine (which was then picked up by NBC News) Here’s tip number three: 3. Share knowledge. Matt Moller and Natasha Juliana, co-founders of WORK in Petaluma, Calif., host informational talks that feature members. “The co-working […]
coWORKing Coffee Talk: Driving – The Good, The Bad, and The Awesome – Oct 14th 2014

Living in Petaluma has spoiled me. My daily commute to WORK is a beautiful 12-minute walk, to and from school is a 10-minute round-trip drive, our house is close enough to downtown to make most of my daily needs within arm’s reach. It hasn’t always been this way. I grew up in rural Northern California, […]
Lunchtime Lesson: QuickBooks Questions Answered – Fri Nov 7th 2014

QuickBooks – Get your questions answered about when and how to use it. Is QuickBooks right for me? What other options are there? Why should I use QuickBooks rather than Quicken? Do I need to know accounting to use QuickBooks? How do I get started? Lynn will take us on a step-by-step tour through the basics […]
Lunchtime Lesson: ‘Sure Fired Get Hired’ Interview Prep – Fri Oct 31st 2014

Your interviewer brusquely invites you into his office and asks you to sit. The chair is uncomfortable, but doesn’t hold a candle to the hiring manager, whose look is equal parts disapproving, annoyed, and smirky. He asks you for a copy of your resume. You realize you forgot it and you come up with a […]
Lean In to Your Whole Life – Oct 9th 2014

This summer I read Sheryl Sandberg’s Lean In. I don’t know why it took me so long to pick this book up. With all of the hype and controversy around it I think I was afraid of what it might say. But once I started reading, I found Sandberg articulating so many of the challenges I’ve […]
WORKshop: Take Photos That Sell Your Business – Sat Oct 25th 9 AM-12 PM

These high-impact WORKshops offer small class sizes, hands-on learning, and important information for the do-it-yourself business professional. In this half day workshop with professional photographer Tyler Chartier, you’ll learn how to use the camera you already own to create images that tell the story of your marketing message and dovetail with your brand. Through demonstration, hands on […]
Lunchtime Lesson: Design Thinking for Everyone – Fri Oct 17th 2014

There is a process and an approach to being a designer. There is a method to it. Design methodology, much like the scientific method, is a particular way of looking at the world, breaking things down and reconstructing them in new and better ways. The word design is derived from the Latin, dēsignāre: to mark out. We will explore what […]
Lunchtime Lesson: Understanding People Through Enneagrams – Fri Oct 24th 2014

What makes you tick? And what makes your colleagues, friends and family excited? How much could you and your work benefit from better understanding people? Enneagram is an effective way to understand the internal incentives and desires we all have consciously or unconsciously at work and home. It can help honor someone else’s perspective (even when […]
coWORKing Coffee Talk: What Haven’t We Talked About? Sept 23rd 2014

After two years of chit-chat over coffee once a week, are we running out of new ideas? My challenge to the group today: tell me something different! Negentropy – To get us started, Jeffrey proposed the following theory: life equals reverse entropy, or negentropy. According to Wikipedia, “a living system imports negentropy and stores it.” […]