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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.
Dec 04

4 Easy Ways to Optimize Your Website

In order to have a powerful brand, you'll need to publish a beautiful, eye-catching website that is optimized
1 min read
Nov 24

Ridiculously Efficient Gift Guide: Pet Products to Make You and Your Fur Baby Happy

For pet owners, our fur babies are our children. The gifts we buy for them, we buy for ourselves, too.
4 min read
Nov 23

Ridiculously Efficient Gift Guide: Business Travel Essentials

Business travel, especially with and for overscheduled entrepreneurs, is notoriously insane. I’ve put together a list of must-have items
3 min read
Nov 22

Ridiculously Efficient Gift Guide: Photo Lighting to Illuminate Your Brand

The quality of the cameras on cell phones are good enough to capture high resolution imagery for the size of
3 min read
Nov 17

Notes Against Complacency: Sunrise Dates

I’ve started noticing that my most productive, fulfilling days — the ones where I fall asleep at night feeling that
2 min read
Nov 01

Ask Marissa: How Do I Stop Feeling Emotionally Attached To My Work?

“” — Raveena Answer: Raveena, Thanks for your question! This is a huge topic, so to help diagnose this, I’ve got
4 min read
Oct 27

This Quiz Tells You How You Respond to Expectations

How you react to commitments — whether they’re to yourself or others — leaves important clues on how to motivate yourself
2 min read
Oct 24

The Lily Chronicles: Puppy Productivity Diary Weeks 5-6

Over the six weeks, I’ve been sharing weekly reports of life with my Rhodesian Ridgeback puppy Lily. As Mike
3 min read
Oct 23

Ask Marissa: How Do I Say ‘No’ Without Disappointing Anyone?

I don't like disappointing people and I have a hard time saying “no.” But this often also means
5 min read
Oct 18

Ask Marissa: How Do I Rebuild Confidence After Failure?

Question: I worked really hard on a project and my boss was unhappy with the result. She decided to go
4 min read
Oct 12

3 Ways to Remove Emotions at Work Without Losing Your Passion

I’m someone whose work is driven by passion and possibility. As part of my work with entrepreneurs, I’ve
4 min read
Oct 11

Notes Against Complacency: Prepare For Your Next Mental Health Day

One of the harsh truths of high-performance work is that we humans are not robots. The pressure of competing deadlines,
2 min read