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This is a guest post from my wife Darla, herself an entrepreneur and chef with a healthy dinner delivery service and a food/recipe blog. Darla and I made different trade-offs with our businesses and I wanted her to share her perspective.

A lot has been said in response to Jason’s post about sacrificing your health for your startup. Some think his position is excessive; some say it depends on your goals. Can you run a lifestyle business that doesn’t require so much personal sacrifice?

I did. I started Fork In The Road, a wee little ..read more

I hate most interviews, and I think everyone else does too.

This interview is different.

Interviews suck because posing twelve canned questions leads to shallow, uninsightful, unactionable answers. Interviewers don’t ask penetrating, useful questions; no one cares where you grew up. You want to learn from interesting, thoughtful people, not read a biography.

So I’m starting the Uncommon Interview:?Five questions that solicit deep answers with actionable advice, examples, and insight. Answers in paragraphs, not one-liners. Depth, not breadth. (Leave a comment and tell me if you want more of these.)

Let’s get started.

Peldi got 100 product reviews in the first six weeks after product launch and raked in $800,000 in the first 12 months of operation. That should get your attention!

The first Uncommon Interview is with ..read more

The Internet is full of good advice about how to lead a healthy, balanced work/home life:

Leo Bauboa of Zen Habits built his Technorati 100 blog on one hour a day, leaving plenty of time for a day job and a family.

Tim Brownson reshuffles our priorities?so we realize what’s important to accomplish and what’s not important to worry about.

Merlin Mann of 43folders shows us how merely admitting what we don’t like about ourselves and our life leads to a vast menu of options for fixing it.

Penelope Trunk demonstrates that

Today, the federal government unveiled the new task force on financial literacy, promised in the January budget. I thought the choice of members said a lot.

The chair, Don Stewart, heads a life insurance company. The vice-chair is with BMO Nesbitt Burns, an investment dealer. Only two of the 11 others named to the task force can be called consumer advocates, Pat Foran of CTV and Laurie Campbell of Credit Canada.

Makes me wonder what will come out of this exercise. There’s a consensus that Canada needs to teach children about money management when they’re in school. That’s helpful, but not enough.

Financial literacy is being watered down and becoming a motherhood issue, one that all the big institutions can support. It’s about when to introduce courses in ..read more

Maybe you want to hire the service of a debt consolidation organization to help you put your credit card finances back in order but you do not think you can afford them. Worry no more because a non profit credit card debt consolidation organization might just be the answer to your prayers. A non profit consolidation organization offers their service if not for free in a very low and modest price. They usually receive funding either from donations or government. That is why their service is usually free but is not applicable to all. People who really have a tight budget could use the help of non profit organization.

Non profit organizations have been popping out ever since it slowly gained popularity since most people opt ..read more