Rebecca Ness

You may think that head baskets and flip flips don’t have anything to do with your entrepreneurial spirit… but if you hang with me a minute, you’ll see what I am talking about. I have had some great adventures in my life, but it the lessons I took from them are just surfacing now… Anyway, [...]

I know a lot of moms my age (40ish) who are looking for a change. Either they have been away from work with kids and are looking for something to do to make money, or they are just sick of their job and are looking for a career change. I talked to one of my [...]

On one of  my ‘getaways’ from working in Japan, I spent two months in an ashram in Rishikesh in India. I did a combination of meditation and yoga throughout the day but I actually found a meditation class I liked better in town and would venture out every afternoon to participate in it. I remember [...]

Although it seems superficial, appearance does matter. In personal life and in business, first impressions are important and the image you portray can have an effect on whether you or not you are successful. Obviously, more people will join you in business if they get a good impression. I want to share a story that [...]

Thanks to my mom, I have an adventurous spirit, and KNOW beyond the shadow of a doubt that I can do anything I want in life. She gave me the gift of an open mind and an adventurous spirit. The first really clear memory is from when I was seven but my mom has always [...]

This is my good friend Graham and my husband Doug, running down a mountain in Japan after we were trapped up there for 3 days in a snow storm. Nothing makes you appreciate life like almost losing it. I have always been one to take chances… and am always open to new things. I guess [...]

When I moved to Nagano in 1997, the company I worked for gave me a small apartment. It was one room, with a tiny bathroom about the size of one in an RV, and a small kitchenette. The apartment was in the centre of the city and I used to grab my mountain bike a [...]

I recently came across one of my journals from my 7 week trip to India 12 years ago. It was fun to relive the experience and I was amazing at what I had learned and forgotten! During part of my trip, I had stayed in a little town called Mcleod Ganj where the Dalai Lama [...]