Dawn Keeps Saying “Durable” Business. What the Actual F*** Does She Mean?
What I meant all along, before I had the language for it
Dawn Kennedy
Get In, We’re Doing Business. Strategic Intelligence™ for entrepreneurs who keep showing up. In jeans. Bare feet welcome.
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It’s No Mystery Why the Coach Is Tired
Before the pressure of running the business changes the person running it
Business Gets to Be Fun, Too
Sometimes your product sends you down a history rabbit hole involving coffee, rebellion, trade routes, insurance, and one very persuasive bean.
Substack Says I Am 100% Artificial. That Will Be News to Me.
A detector can identify patterns in finished prose. It cannot adjudicate authorship, ownership, or the human work that created it.
The Book I Could Not Stop Writing
On tools, timing, wet socks, and the decisions underneath the decision
One Year In: Main Street Still Needs Better Questions
Seventy-five articles later, I am more convinced than ever that small business owners are not lacking grit. They are lacking better decision support.
Dressed as Wonder Woman in a Disciplinary with HR
What happens when you spend eleven years bringing work into rooms that were not ready to recognize it.
Litigation Is a Business Decision
The fragile procedural places where business owners accidentally lose before the real argument ever begins.
Six Months In: Has Your Breakthrough Number Changed?
Your Breakthrough Number is not just a survival calculation. It is your cash floor — and Q3 planning needs the current one.
What Are You Holding?
Before the next quarter asks for harder decisions, make sure you know whether you are protecting the dream, or protecting the structure you built around it.