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<title>Going for It: Woman Warrior</title>
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<updated>2010-12-07T17:33:29Z</updated>
<subtitle>Former pro-dancer Alexis Rodich steps off the stage and into the world of online start-ups.</subtitle>
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<title>More lessons from the beam</title>
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<updated>2010-12-07T17:33:29Z</updated>
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<summary type="text"><![CDATA[In a&nbsp;previous post, I described my two primary sources of distraction&nbsp;as a young gymnast: my competitors and my own teammates. We all know what an energy vampire it can be to place too much&nbsp;attention on the competition and I'll share some of my favorite&nbsp;insights on that topic in another post.&nbsp;&nbsp;Distractions closer to home are often subtle, but much more disruptive. With 12 gymnasts and just four high balance beams, my teammates and I&nbsp;would work three]]>...Please click on the title to continue reading this entry.</summary>
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<name>Alexis Rodich</name>
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<entry>
<title>Learning balance from the beam</title>
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<updated>2010-11-09T17:27:39Z</updated>
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<summary type="text">&quot;Keep your eyes on your own balance beam!&quot; my gymnastics coach used to bellow when I would become distracted by competitors or teammates running through their own routines to my left and right. More than a decade has passed since my last gymnastics competition, yet my coach&apos;s words remain one of my core rules of personal success. It is easy to get caught up in the conduct of competitors or even in the progress of...Please click on the title to continue reading this entry.</summary>
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<name>Alexis Rodich</name>
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<entry>
<title>Commuting with community</title>
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<updated>2010-11-03T16:31:22Z</updated>
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<summary type="text"><![CDATA[I love my 30-minute walk to work each morning, embracing it as an opportunity to start each day fresh and focused. &nbsp;I often listen to whatever song happens to be on heavy rotation in my iPod--which right now is the Baths remix of Fol Chen's "In Ruins"--and read through my favorite news, music and tech industry resources. Without fail, my first stop is always Hypebot. Founded by Bruce Houghton and edited by Kyle Bylin, Hypebot]]>...Please click on the title to continue reading this entry.</summary>
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<name>Alexis Rodich</name>
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<entry>
<title>No friends quite like girlfriends</title>
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<updated>2010-10-28T18:48:47Z</updated>
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<summary type="text"><![CDATA[Aside from my dog, the aspect of life in D.C. I miss more than any other since moving to San Diego is spending time with my girlfriends.&nbsp; I've never been the type to join cliques, but have always cultivated deep and meaningful relationships.&nbsp;Over the last few years in particular I surrounded myself with friends who both nourished and brought out the best in me. We expected nothing less than fabulous from one another. Over warm]]>...Please click on the title to continue reading this entry.</summary>
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<name>Alexis Rodich</name>
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<entry>
<title>Sneezing and reading</title>
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<updated>2010-10-25T21:38:04Z</updated>
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<summary type="text"><![CDATA[Apologies for the lack of posts last week.&nbsp;I was&nbsp;at home with a vicious cold. But there was some good news. The upside of being in bed for days at a time is the opportunity to catch up on reading. &nbsp; Over the course of a few days, I read MoneyBall and The Big Short by Michael Lewis, The Quants by Scott Patterson and Too Big to Fail by Andrew Ross Sorkin-- to name a few.]]>...Please click on the title to continue reading this entry.</summary>
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<name>Alexis Rodich</name>
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<entry>
<title>Do I go for it?</title>
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<updated>2010-10-13T13:34:23Z</updated>
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<summary type="text"><![CDATA[I've got a bit of a dilemma. A&nbsp;thought leader I've quoted&nbsp;often on this blog is hosting an intensive&nbsp;just for&nbsp;women. &nbsp;A no brainer, right? Right, except for one caveat: it is for&nbsp;women who own and run their own businesses. Although I consider myself highly entrepreneurial, I do not own or run&nbsp;Bandsintown.&nbsp;My gut tells me that attending this workshop would be life&nbsp;changing and would help me develop &nbsp;the skills, mindset and community to reach my potential. At]]>...Please click on the title to continue reading this entry.</summary>
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<name>Alexis Rodich</name>
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<entry>
<title>Right resources, right time</title>
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<updated>2010-10-12T13:51:39Z</updated>
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<summary type="text"><![CDATA[It always amazes me when the right thing happens at the exact right time, even though it shouldn't because I firmly believe that the "right things" always occur when you are more open to them in the first place. Over the past few months I've become increasingly interested in a&nbsp;particular marketing methodology &nbsp;because it balances my creative nature and bias toward quantitative methodologies.&nbsp;&nbsp;I discovered this&nbsp;approach to marketing not in business school, but through the writing&nbsp;of]]>...Please click on the title to continue reading this entry.</summary>
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<name>Alexis Rodich</name>
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<entry>
<title>Learning from failure</title>
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<updated>2010-10-08T15:45:26Z</updated>
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<summary type="text"><![CDATA[The one thing a startup founder or early employee rarely dwells on is the possibility that the venture might fail. &nbsp;Not only is failure possible, but conventional wisdom is that it is even likely. Even so, rarely does the topic come up in all but the most generic of contexts. For this reason, I was deeply touched by this&nbsp;"post mortem" blog post&nbsp;by Marc Hedlund the co-founder and former CEO of Wesabe. Backed by Union Square]]>...Please click on the title to continue reading this entry.</summary>
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<name>Alexis Rodich</name>
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<entry>
<title>Differing paths to the top</title>
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<updated>2010-10-04T16:02:41Z</updated>
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<summary type="text"><![CDATA[I recently read two books about scaling impossible heights: The Wave, about big waves and big wave surfers by Susan Casey and Dark Summit, about the 2006 climbing season on Mt. Everest, by Nick Heil.&nbsp; Though one might think that athletes attempting to scale the tallest mountains and ride biggest waves in the world would have more in common than sets them apart, I was astonished by how fundamentally different the two groups were. With]]>...Please click on the title to continue reading this entry.</summary>
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<name>Alexis Rodich</name>
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<entry>
<title>Keep trying if you want to succeed</title>
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<updated>2010-09-30T15:30:20Z</updated>
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<summary type="text"><![CDATA[When was the last time you went to Starbucks? If you are anything like me, the more appropriate question may be "When was the last day you did not go to Starbucks?" It's hard to believe that something as ingrained in our culture as Starbucks came&nbsp;close to never getting off the ground. &nbsp;In his book, Pour Your Heart Into It, Starbucks President and CEO Howard Shultz describes his experience raising his first round of capital]]>...Please click on the title to continue reading this entry.</summary>
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<name>Alexis Rodich</name>
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<entry>
<title>Sharing your goals for success</title>
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<updated>2010-09-27T16:14:56Z</updated>
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<summary type="text"><![CDATA[Want to reach your most important goal? Then you better keep &nbsp;it to yourself--or so says Derek Sivers in this gem of a TED talk. According to Sivers, we derive so much satisfaction from simply telling others our goals that we often end up failing to pursue them. Or worse,&nbsp;we end up&nbsp;deluding ourselves that we've taken action&nbsp;toward achieving our goals when really all we've done is talk. While I am a huge fan of Sivers]]>...Please click on the title to continue reading this entry.</summary>
<author>
<name>Alexis Rodich</name>
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<entry>
<title>An attitude for success</title>
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<updated>2010-09-24T00:12:43Z</updated>
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<summary type="text"><![CDATA[Last week my adopted home town of San Diego played host&nbsp;to some of the top companies in my field during the first annual San&nbsp;Diego Music Technology Summit. Part conference and part&nbsp;electronic music festival, the summit&nbsp;was one of the most thoughtfully executed events that I've been to in&nbsp;sometime. &nbsp;The success of the conference is due, in large part, to the&nbsp;attitude Roland Ligtenberg, the conference organizer, brought to&nbsp;approaching it. Roland is a co-worker of ours at The]]>...Please click on the title to continue reading this entry.</summary>
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<name>Alexis Rodich</name>
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<entry>
<title>Rejection leads to success</title>
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<updated>2010-09-21T17:39:11Z</updated>
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<summary type="text"><![CDATA[In 2003, I set my sights on a Fulbright scholarship to Costa Rica. &nbsp;I lined up the best recommendations I could find, including a notable scholar at a university there. I&nbsp;wrote countless drafts of my proposal. My mentors and advisors affirmed my application and even the program coordinator at American University said I was a compelling candidate. &nbsp;After a month of waiting with baited breath, I found out that I did not even make it]]>...Please click on the title to continue reading this entry.</summary>
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<name>Alexis Rodich</name>
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<entry>
<title>Poetry in the moment</title>
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<updated>2010-09-17T15:25:05Z</updated>
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<summary type="text"><![CDATA[I sat on my grandmother's couch staring intently at her, straining each one of my senses to make sure I did not gloss over the cadence of her curated words or allow a carefully crafted metaphor to slip by unnoticed or misinterpreted. Every once in a while, she'd glance up and offer a brief explanation or back story. &nbsp;She wasn't assessing my reaction;&nbsp; these poems weren't written to elicit one. &nbsp;Nonetheless, my laughter and tears]]>...Please click on the title to continue reading this entry.</summary>
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<name>Alexis Rodich</name>
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<entry>
<title>Lesson learned from the Local Natives</title>
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<updated>2010-09-15T17:20:33Z</updated>
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<summary type="text"><![CDATA[Fulfilling a promise to myself to get away for at least part of the holiday weekend, &nbsp;I took the day off on Saturday before Labor Day and went up to Los Angeles for the FYF festival, which featured one of my favorites, the Local Natives. &nbsp; Watching the Local Natives live for the first time in nearly nine months, I was struck by how polished they had become. &nbsp;When I first saw them last fall,]]>...Please click on the title to continue reading this entry.</summary>
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<name>Alexis Rodich</name>
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