Today in Global Small Business: All Things Columbus Day 2025

iStock/MR1805 What's affecting me, my clients, my colleagues and other global small business owners: Columbus Day is a feder...

High Thinking

©2025 Laurel J. Delaney.  All rights reserved. "Simple living, high thinking." – associated with Mahatma Gandhi from T...

The Game of Chicken Can Become Global

©iStock/Natalia Bodrova It's the ninth day of the federal government shutdown (10/9/25).  The House is currently not in sessio...

Will There Be a Serious US Market Correction?

©iStock/Galeanu Mihai Jamie Dimon, who leads JP Morgan, America's largest bank, said he was " far more worried than other...

Tariff Analysis By Alex Yancher, Founder of Passport

©iStock/Dilok Klaisataporn Alex Yancher, who helps brands go global via Passport, writes about the odds of the Supreme Court knock...

Life of a Showgirl

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Today in Global Small Business: World Teachers Day 2025

©iStock/Atstock Productions What's affecting me, my clients, my colleagues and other global small business owners: World Tea...

Life Starts All Over Again

©2025 Laurel J. Delaney.  All rights reserved. "Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall." – F. Scott F...

Paul Krugman: How Stone-Faced Generals, Wall Street Pushback, and Government Shutdown May Save America's Quickly Declining Democracy

©iStock/lineartestpilot Paul Krugman says, "If America still had a fully functioning democracy, Donald Trump’s speech Tuesday...

Women Entrepreneurs Grow Global 10th Anniversary Gala 11/6/25 in Chicago!

Secure your tickets today for the Women Entrepreneurs Grow Global® 10th anniversary gala , featuring Whitney Reynolds of the Whitney Reynol...

Sky Is the Limit? Not for Poles!

©iStock/DanielPrudek After just coming back from a trip to Poland, I was amazed (and impressed) to learn that Polish skier Andrzej...

Founder Sonsoles Gonzalez to Discuss Redefining Beauty After 50 In Upcoming wegginar® on 10/1/25

©2025 Women Entrepreneurs Grow Global.  All rights reserved. If only we could turn back the hands of time on age – but when it com...

Today in Global Small Business: Finding the Right Balance in Uncertain Times

©iStock/cagkansayin What's affecting me, my clients, my colleagues and other global small business owners: Finding the right...

The Natural Bridge Between East and West

©2024 Laurel J. Delaney.  All rights reserved. "Poland is the natural bridge between East and West." – Norman Davies f...

What's Happening This Week in Economics?

©iStock/Galeanu Mihai What’s happening this week in economics? Deloitte’s team of economists examines news and trends from around ...

Tariffs Have Created Radical Uncertainty for Global Small Businesses

©iStock/designer491 The recent wave of tariffs and other trade controls has created radical uncertainty for businesses. Here’s how...

Training Google's AI to Send You Customers

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How Trade Secrets Fuel the International Auto Industry

©iStock/Nataliia Nesterenko To expand their business to China, car manufacturers like Volkswagen and Toyota had to first establish...

Today in Global Small Business: 25 Best Things To Do In the World in 2025

  ©iStock/Ramkaran What's affecting me, my clients, my colleagues and other global small business owners: Best things to do ...

Peace Is Our Gift To Each Other

©2025 Laurel J. Delaney.  All rights reserved. "Peace is our gift to each other." – Elie Wiesel  from The Global Small...

The Supreme Court Issues Major Announcement Concerning Tariffs

©iStock/wildpixel Small businesses and states challenging the tariffs say Trump illegally invoked emergency powers to levy import ...

No Two Men Are More Utterly Different in Values, Purpose, Style and Psychology: King Charles III and US President Trump

©iStock/YKD US President Donald Trump is going to be greeted with a spectacular royal charm offensive during his state visit this ...

An Intellectual Marlboro Man Tuned to Maximum Americana

©iStock/nolamissesyou Through a career that stretched six decades, Robert Redford, who died on Tuesday (9/16/25) at 89, was an int...

How She Went Global® podcast with Ming Chen, President and CEO, MSL Global Express (9/15/25)

©2025 Women Entrepreneurs Grow Global®.  All rights reserved. 🌟 ☀ 🌟 🌏   Just dropped (September 15, 2025) – the 55th episode of...

Today in Global Small Business: Who Can Bring People Together on Multilateral Issues?

©iStock/300_librarians What's affecting me, my clients, my colleagues and other global small business owners: Who can bring ...

Give the Lady What She Wants

©2025 Laurel J. Delaney.  All rights reserved. "Give the lady what she wants." – Marshall Field from The Global Small ...

Love the Women Presidents Organization, Especially the Chicago Market

©2025 Laurel J. Delaney.  All rights reserved. And this is the Women Presidents Organization Chicago group where I serve as the C...

The Left and Right Weigh In On the Shooting of Charlie Kirk

©iStock/Longfin Media Charlie Kirk, the founder of the conservative political group Turning Point USA was fatally shot while speak...

AI Search Is Transforming SEO Forever

©iStock/KTStock AI SEO is different from SEO, thanks to advancement in AI Search. The fundamental rules that governed search optim...

Who Will Be Japan's Next Prime Minister?

©iStock/PeterHermesFurian Japan's Prime Minister (PM) Shigeru Ishiba has announced his resignation after less than a year in t...

Today in Global Small Business: A Guide to History, Food, and Culture in New Mexico

©iStock/Sean Pavone What's affecting me, my clients, my colleagues and other global small business owners: The most striking...

Built Ford Tough

©2025 Laurel J. Delaney.  All rights reserved. “Built Ford Tough” emerged as a prototype slogan in 1979. In addition to being a ph...

Tariffs According to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce

©iStock/Marc Bruxelle According to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, a tariff is a tax on imported goods paid by the U.S. business or ...

Trump's Sweeping Tariffs EXCEED His Authority

©iStock/Stanislav Gvozd Trump’s tariffs are headed to the Supreme Court after a court ruled them illegal.  A federal appeals court...

Little Spoon to Whole Foods: You're the Best Thing That Never Happened To Me

©iStock/Unaihuiziphotography   These founders say losing a major deal was the best thing that happened to their startup.   Little ...

Meet the wegg® Committee for the 10-Year Anniversary Gala 11/6 in Chicago

©2025 Women Entrepreneurs Grow Global®.  All rights reserved. With Women Entrepreneurs Grow Global's 10-year anniversary celeb...

Today in Global Small Business: Honoring American Workers and the Labor Movement in 2025

©2025 Laurel J. Delaney.  All rights reserved. What's affecting me, my clients, my colleagues and other global small business ...

Do Not Drive Boring Cars

©2025 Laurel J. Delaney.  All rights reserved. "Life is too short to drive boring cars." – Most commonly attributed to ...

I [Laurel Delaney] Loved the New Cracker Barrel Logo!

©iStock/marcnorman I [Laurel Delaney] loved the new, fresh and updated Cracker Barrel logo. Yet ...    Cracker Barrel is reverting...

These Incidents Should Not Happen: Shooter Opens Fire in Catholic Church in Minneapolis (8/27/25)

©iStock/Jennifer Yakey-Ault A shooter opened fire with a rifle Wednesday (8/27/25) through the windows of a Catholic church in Mi...

Hello World: Learn What Janet L. Yellen Says About Removing Lisa Cook as a Fed Governor in USA

©iStock/lemono Janet L. Yellen, who was Mr. Jerome Powell’s immediate predecessor as Fed chair and later served as Treasury secret...

wegginar® with Duct Tape Marketing CEO Sara Nay, 9/3/25

©2025 Women Entrepreneurs Grow Global®.  All rights reserved. Sara Nay, CEO of Duct Tape Marketing, will be presenting a wegginar®...

Today in Global Small Business: Global Superpower Maria Sharapova Is Competing in a New Arena and It's Not Tennis

©iStock/J2R What's affecting me, my clients, my colleagues and other global small business owners: Global superpower Maria S...

Smile When You See a Butterfly

©2025 Laurel Delaney.  All rights reserved. “If you smile when you see a butterfly, you have happiness in your soul.” – Diana Coop...

Are We Using Artificial Intelligence to Do the Brainwork For Us?

©iStock/hapabapa Back in the day, if we wanted to get just about anything done, we had to rely on our entire mental faculty to do ...

Don't You Love Thomas Friedman's Opinion Pieces?

©iStock/mizoula In Thomas Friedman's latest Opinion piece for The New York Times (8/19/25), he says:   "I am really tryin...

Tough Obstacles To Ending the War in Ukraine

©iStock/TexBr The simple fact that recent meetings between Trump and Zelenskyy, and the larger gathering of European leaders, was ...

AI Is Used to Bring the Operating Cost of Fisheries Down

©iStock/Sasithorn Phuapankasemsuk Because inflation continues to rise, the cost of all fisheries has become more expensive . The h...

Today in Global Small Business: America's Busiest Gateway For Imports Sets a New Record

©iStock/MattGush What's affecting me, my clients, my colleagues and other global small business owners: America’s busiest ga...