Recommended Reading

Mindfulness & Meaningful Work: Explorations in Right Livelihood
Mindfulness and Meaningful Work cover picture.
Running A One-Person Business
Running a One-Person Business cover picture.
Improv Wisdom: Don't Prepare, Just Show Up
Improv Wisdom book cover

Practical solutions to life-long problems, fun and inspirational ways to improve your talents and a perspective on life that uses mistakes and challenges as fuel for even greater adventures. Forgiveness, compassion, acceptance, gratitude, action, attention, focus, productivity and joy; practical and inspirational at the same time.
Written by Patricia Ryan Madson, another long-time friend and fellow Briar (see Briarpatch.Net)

Who Has Used Good Business Advice?

Some Good Business Advice Clients

  • Alameda County Housing Authority, Hayward, California
  • Artventure, natural fiber clothing, Berkeley, California
  • Aunt Ann's Agency, temp agency, San Francisco
  • Barbara Blake, Landscape Contractor, San Francisco
  • Been There, Photo Maps, San Francisco
  • Blue Heron Restaurant, Santa Fe, New Mexico
  • Canessa Park Architects, San Francisco
  • Clement Street Counseling Center, San Francisco
  • Creative Catering, San Francisco
  • Crow Canyon Institute, environmental education,
    San Ramon, California
  • Joan Dekelboum, landscape architect, San Francisco
  • Foretagsutveckling Centre, business institute, Trollhattan, Sweden
  • Frame of Mind, framing stores, San Francisco
  • Growth Management Center, organization consultants,
    Truckee, California
  • Institute for the Human Environment, consultants,
    Sausalito, California
  • Kursbyn Korpberget, psychotherapy institute, Kramfors, Sweden
  • Marina Counseling Center, San Francisco
  • McKinnon School of Massage, Oakland, California
  • Michael Painter Associates, Landscape Architects, San Francisco
  • Mudd's Restaurant, San Ramon, California
  • New College of California, San Francisco
  • Nolo Press, Berkeley, California
  • Off the Loom, flat-weave tapestries, San Francisco &
    Oaxaca, Mexico
  • Open Enterprises, Inc., mail-order, sex-positive products,
    San Francisco
  • Page & Turnbull, Architects, San Francisco
  • Paradox Enterprises, online medical database, Glen Ellen, California
  • Yana Parker, career and resume coach, Oakland, California
  • Pickle Family Circus, San Francisco
  • Real Goods Trading Company, alternative energy and
    organic farming, Santa Rosa, California
  • Research & Planning for Business, Mill Valley, California
  • The Russel Group, architects, San Francisco
  • Sunflower Compositaers, word processing, San Francisco
  • San Francisco SPCA, San Francisco
  • Sibbet Associates, organizational consultants, San Francisco
  • Sunrise Springs Spa, Santa Fe, New Mexico
  • Thousand Islands Institute, owner-builder center,
    Picton, Ontario, Canada
  • Wells & Vincent, CPAs, Berkeley, California