Marissa Brassfield

Marissa Brassfield

Los Angeles
Trusted advisor, simplifier, and loving catalyst of your biggest and best initiatives. Discovering how to stretch time, maximize ease, and optimize work-life alignment.
Apr 02

Destroy to Create Experiment: Can I Use a 10.5" iPad Pro Full-Time at Work?

I regularly conduct what I like to call “Destroy to Create” experiments, where I take a routine, habit or workflow
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Mar 27

How I Learned Resilience Through Adventure Travel

I recently read a post by Blake Snow on Entrepreneur that outlines a few of the many reasons why entrepreneurs
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Mar 07

4 Steps to Changing Your Bad Luck

Many people will tell you that success comes with the perfect combination of talent, luck and hard work. But recent
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Mar 05

Communication Hacks for Women: Weak vs. Effective Language

In a professional setting, experts often caution women against using the phrase “I think,” as this language weakens the impact
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Feb 09

3 Ways to Lead With Love & Enable High-Performance Teamwork

Can you get what you want and be nice while doing it? When I was little, Dad used to say,
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Feb 06

Notes Against Complacency: Get Up and Stretch!

So many of us crunch ourselves into impossible sitting or standing positions and forget to move our bodies during the
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Feb 05

Why Everyone Needs a Power Mantra

We’re always asked to share personal motivation techniques -- little tricks and hacks that we can use to stay
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Jan 19

Notes Against Complacency: Optimize Your Travel Plans

Whether for work or pleasure, travel is complicated -- even if you enjoy traveling, like me. The logistics of managing
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Jan 02

4 Ways to Aid Your Stage Fright Jitters

When the clock strikes speech-time and you're overcome by nerves, use these fast-working performance tricks to give your
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Dec 27

5 Ways to Supercharge Your Impromptu Speaking Skills

Improvisation and impromptu speaking can be a challenging skill to master. And, much like most special skills, if you don&
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Dec 11

How to Nail Your Speech When You Don't Have Time to Prepare

We've all sat through painstaking speeches in which the speakers were clearly not prepared. As painful as it
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Dec 08

(RED)diculously Efficient Gift Guide: Give (RED) And Help End Aids In Africa

Amazon and (RED) have joined forces for an exclusive shopping experience that offers gift buyers (RED) products that help to
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