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Jun.07.2013
"Lots of shifts in thinking and behaviors," is how a professional coach encapsulated the GlobalNiche effect in her life and business. We love that! (Click here to tweet it if it's happening for you too.)
Below are fresh explorations of those shifts from novelist Jessica Lutz and academic...
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Jun.07.2013
Facebook timeline has in past 8 months become full of irrelevant sponsored posts and ads but before that was not an activated global neighborhood posting on interrelated topics.What’s happening in Istanbul and Turkey and the Turkish diaspora around the world this week has made my Facebook timeline...
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Jun.02.2013
Tara and I've been so inspired by what our GlobalNiche community is making happen in your global niche -- finding ways to meld music, travel, & fashion; food, culture, film and academia; performance improv and workplace behavior design.
That's you. Interests/...
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May.28.2013
Does this scenario sound familiar?
You're positive this is the way it is. That's life. The way it has to be. Hell, that's just how you work.
Have you caught yourself saying things like :
"Stop waving that new thing in my face. I'm busy"
"I don't have time to...
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May.24.2013
I have a friend who's not very into digital life. Whenever she opens her email it's flooded by spam and she can't find anything valuable in there. So she just avoids it. Do you know someone like that?
In this video clip from the GlobalNiche program, I talk about the historic...
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May.22.2013
"I was a drifting ship. I now feel like I have just hoisted my sails, and can sense wind filling them." ~ longtime foreign correspondent, novelist Jessica JJ Lutz
Here's what happened when a longtime foreign correspondent quit journalism to become a novelist.
She tumbled into a void. No...
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May.21.2013
Here's a classic ICYMI -- "in case you missed it."
In this TEDxVictoria talk from 2012, one of GlobalNiche's favorite proponents of the online life Alexandra Samuel argues that once we embrace our online lives as part of our real lives we will unlock the potential of the internet....
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May.09.2013
I recently relocated to San Francisco. Three decades away from my hometown area, I keep chanting: “Don’t expect it to be the same as it was in the past.”
San Francisco may be a tech-forward location but that's not why I've increasingly been turning to technology to help me...
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May.01.2013
Building your global niche is a 21st century skill. For work. For life.International business, human resources, the future of life & work bestsellers and new releases from Harvard Biz Review are stacking up on our bookshelf at Pinterest.
Finding cultural effectiveness. Career...
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Apr.26.2013
We're born content producers. The more prolific among us are literally volcanoes of content.
Yet, what you’ve generated probably isn’t working for you.
It’s probably not laid out as a path where you want to go, nor presented as an invitation to other like-minded souls and interested...
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Apr.23.2013
Good news. If you're reading this, you're probably safely beyond the digital divide. However, today we're facing another digital frontier that determines a person's access to opportunity. The connected divide.
On one side of this new dividing line, people are
connecting to broader...
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Apr.18.2013
At GlobalNiche we believe social media is about using technology to communicate naturally. In case you haven't seen it, don't miss this video of Tara talking to you about how to use social media so it feels like you.
Use social media so it feels like you.Tweet that line by...
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Apr.15.2013
We've all felt our hands tied by convention, our ambitions clipped by risks known and unknown.
I bet you don't have to be in the legal profession to see how many of the below issues relate to your own situation.
This weekend at the San Francisco Bar Association, I spoke at an innovative new...
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Apr.09.2013
At GlobalNiche, we're scrappy and we know it.
In this video clip my partner Tara explains how you too can benefit from "polishing in public".
We're committed to putting our work into the public sphere even if it's not exactly how we'd like it to be.
Since we're a new company pulling...
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Mar.31.2013
We asked authors and writing instructors, scriptwriters and bloggers -- why did you choose GlobalNiche's program to build your platform and why now? Here's what they told us.1) They're ready to do new things.
2) They want a challenging support community.
3) They...
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Colourful, humanistic and sincere collection of women’s voices.
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—Turkey’s most-read author Elif Shafak describing the “Tales from the Expat Harem” anthology I cocreated and coedited, one of her recommended 5 best books on Turkey The Browser: Five Books (November 2010)
About Anastasia
A native of Berkeley, California with 14 years abroad in three countries, I'm a cultural writer/producer on a global rollercoaster:
fired in Hollywood,
abandoned on a snake-infested island off Borneo,
married in an Ottoman palace,
interviewed by Matt...
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Causes Anastasia Ashman Supports
Vipassana Meditation Instruction (dhamma.org) Ashoka Organization of Social Entrepreneurs (ashoka.org)