Terrance is a longtime Stoke member who’s a joy to be around and has never met a stranger. Read more about what he does & his motivations in this Stoke member spotlight!
What Can You Do To Find Balance and Avoid Burnout?
You have the Sunday blues, dreading Monday and the work week. You’re exhausted just thinking about the upcoming meetings and calls that you’ve scheduled out for yourself. You tell yourself, “this is the dream!” but you’re still yawning. The work that you once approached enthusiastically now seems to require cups of coffee just to open and respond to the emails in your inbox.
Maybe these are exaggerations, or maybe it’s your reality.
Whether you’re an employer, an employee, or self-employed, burnout can have serious consequences for your productivity and work performance, making the difference between operating a thriving business or one that will have to close its doors.
9 Coworking Space Myths
In a coworking space, you’ll find people working diligently on their individual businesses, projects, and endeavors while sharing workspace. The idea of a shared workspace is often associated with misconceptions like it’s too noisy, only entrepreneurs and startups work in coworking spaces, and membership is too expensive.
Building Company Culture While Shifting To Remote Work
We’re exploring how to develop and engage in a supportive company culture for the future of work and to strengthen teams in distributed workforces. We sat down for a talk with Ryan Plauche, Software Engineer with satellite software startup Kubos, who worked remotely from Stoke but had to transition to working from home during Texas’ stay at home order.
Stoke Mentor Spotlight: Patrick Peters
Build The New: Pivoting Your Business
We sat down in a Zoom call for a Coffee + Convo session with Emile Stewart, founder and owner of Wildflower Art Studio, where Amazon best-selling calligraphy and brush-lettering kits are packaged and shipped off to help fuel creativity in people across the world.
Recap + Recording: Financial Preparedness For Small Businesses
Working From Home: Tips For Parents Turned Remote Workers/Teachers
Working Well: Take a Break
We’re revisiting and combining a couple of previously published Stoke blogs, Workplace Wellness: Take a Break and To Sit or To Stand: How To Choose & Use A Standing Desk to deliver this blog to you that’s pertinent to the times. Whether your team has gone entirely remote, or you’re working at the office still (while practicing the appropriate amount of hand-washing and social distancing of course), take these tips for workplace wellness and and add a few into your routine.
Looking Forward To Year Two of FlintConf
We see you, working hard and hustling every day, running your business, excelling at customer service, thinking of fresh ideas and innovations to your processes, and maybe asking yourself whether you should take the leap into something new or take further steps wherever you are (we’re all in varying stages of growth, professionally and personally, right?).
Financial Preparedness: Talking Taxes, Accounting, and Planning with Wallace Accounting & Advisory
Stoke Member Spotlight: Peter Brigaitis
Workplace Wellness: Take A Break!
There’s science behind the benefits of taking short breaks throughout the day, as well as full days off, and longer vacations throughout the year. It’s common knowledge that overworking can lead to burnout and make it difficult to unwind even when we have the time, "What neuroscience is showing is that we require downtime in order for our bodies to go through the process of restoration," according to clinical psychologist, Deborah Mulhern.
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Global Entrepreneurship Week In Review
That’s a wrap for Global Entrepreneurship Week 2019!
We watched entrepreneurs and community members meet and connect and learned from those experienced in starting their own companies and working in their industries. We hope you made it out to some of the events! You can read a brief summary of each one in this blog post.
Top Traits and Behaviors of Entrepreneurs
What To Do During Global Entrepreneurship Week in Denton
Wondering why you should be excited about Global Entrepreneurship Week (GEW)? We need entrepreneurs to continue solving problems, meeting needs, and filling gaps by designing and innovating with the future in mind. GEW is a celebration of the contributions of entrepreneurs then, now, and looking forward. During the week all over the world, organizations host events and offer resources to entrepreneurs and those who are aspiring to be.
Cover photo by Royce Gossett
What Global Entrepreneurship Week Looks Like in Denton, Texas
Aligning with an international effort, lead by the Kauffman Foundation, to break down barriers to entrepreneurship and encourage entrepreneurial hopefuls to take the leap, we’re participating in Global Entrepreneurship Week (GEW), which is November 18th through November 22nd. Stoke is celebrating all week by hosting events, sharing resources, and listening to Dentonites regarding their wants and needs in terms of resources and support.
5 Tips To Write An Actionable Business Plan
We’re elaborating on the tips that we published in 5 Tips For Starting a Small Business in Denton (linked) in a new series!
Stoke Member Spotlight: John Knowles
John Knowles landed a full-time position in software development after an internship with Stoke member company, Team of Defenders. He works as a level one software developer and shared some of his experience with us, including ideal results of attending a tech job fair here at Stoke!
Read the whole interview!