Welcome to the Blooming Mindset. I'm Ruth Rieckehoff, and I'm so glad you're here. Some of my emails include affiliate links. If you choose to purchase, I may earn a small commission, at no extra cost to you. I only share what I’ve personally used, trusted, and found meaningful enough to pass along. Beloved Architect of Identity, Sometimes the thing growing your business is also quietly reshaping it. The other day, I read an email from a business owner talking about how she used AI to analyze...
13 days ago • 3 min read
Welcome to the Blooming Mindset. I'm Ruth Rieckehoff, and I'm so glad you're here. Some of my emails include affiliate links. If you choose to purchase, I may earn a small commission, at no extra cost to you. I only share what I’ve personally used, trusted, and found meaningful enough to pass along. Beloved Architect of Identity, Sometimes, the most dangerous thing about a person is not what they believe. It’s that nothing about their perspective has changed in 20 years. Last week, I was...
20 days ago • 3 min read
Welcome to the Blooming Mindset. I'm Ruth Rieckehoff, and I'm so glad you're here. Some of my emails include affiliate links. If you choose to purchase, I may earn a small commission, at no extra cost to you. I only share what I’ve personally used, trusted, and found meaningful enough to pass along. Beloved Architect of Identity, There’s a moment I still think about from a road trip in Portugal. The trip was amazing, but this particular moment showed me something I kept repeating in my life...
27 days ago • 3 min read
Welcome to the Blooming Mindset. I'm Ruth Rieckehoff, and I'm so glad you're here. Some of my emails include affiliate links. If you choose to purchase, I may earn a small commission, at no extra cost to you. I only share what I’ve personally used, trusted, and found meaningful enough to pass along. Beloved Architect of Identity, Some seasons don’t ask for more effort. They ask for a different pace. Lately, life has felt heavier than “busy.” In about five weeks, I’m moving cross-country from...
about 1 month ago • 2 min read
Welcome to the Blooming Mindset. I'm Ruth Rieckehoff, and I'm so glad you're here. Some of my emails include affiliate links. If you choose to purchase, I may earn a small commission, at no extra cost to you. I only share what I’ve personally used, trusted, and found meaningful enough to pass along. Beloved Architect of Identity, I used to think the next level of my career would come from pushing harder. More effort. More hours. More saying yes. So I became the reliable person. The one who...
about 1 month ago • 3 min read
Welcome to the Blooming Mindset. I'm Ruth Rieckehoff, and I'm so glad you're here. Some of my emails include affiliate links. If you choose to purchase, I may earn a small commission, at no extra cost to you. I only share what I’ve personally used, trusted, and found meaningful enough to pass along. Beloved Architect of Identity, A recruiter taught me something about selling, and they probably don’t even know it. Most people think the magic happens at the close. The final call. The offer. The...
about 2 months ago • 3 min read
Welcome to the Blooming Mindset. I'm Ruth Rieckehoff, and I'm so glad you're here. Some of my emails include affiliate links. If you choose to purchase, I may earn a small commission, at no extra cost to you. I only share what I’ve personally used, trusted, and found meaningful enough to pass along. Beloved Architect of Identity, The most stressed engineer in the room had the simplest job. He just didn’t know it yet. When I got my first job out of college, I stepped into a world of...
about 2 months ago • 3 min read
Welcome to the Blooming Mindset. I'm Ruth Rieckehoff, and I'm so glad you're here. Some of my emails include affiliate links. If you choose to purchase, I may earn a small commission, at no extra cost to you. I only share what I’ve personally used, trusted, and found meaningful enough to pass along. Beloved Architect of Identity, I didn’t ruin my blog in one day. I ruined it one “random post” at a time. When I started blogging 15+ years ago, I had no plan. No structure. No business model....
2 months ago • 2 min read
Welcome to the Blooming Mindset. I'm Ruth Rieckehoff, and I'm so glad you're here. Some of my emails include affiliate links. If you choose to purchase, I may earn a small commission, at no extra cost to you. I only share what I’ve personally used, trusted, and found meaningful enough to pass along. Beloved Architect of Identity, I thought I was saving money. I wasn’t. We arrived in Ljubljana (Slovenia) late at night. I was excited. New country. A “boutique hotel” at a great price. Felt like...
2 months ago • 3 min read