You may have noticed that today’s Q&A features C&D’s lovely new Editor, Jessica DiGiacinto, who has been guiding our content since mid-December. This change is the beginning of my transition away from day-to-day involvement with C&D.

About four years ago, we started C&D with no money and a lot of ambition (in an old apartment that was so cold in the winter we wore mittens inside). Jump cut to now: Style Statement is working its magic in the world and Carrie and Danielle, Inc. is on its way to becoming a successful web company. Plenty of opportunities are knocking.

The strongest knocking for me is to write my next book. It’s a burning in my heart that I must give oxygen to.

Now that C&D is humming with other great contributors, I can do just that. I’ll keep a toe in the C&D content pool, but I feel a deep call to focus on writing about spiritual principals…a spirituality that, practically speaking, kicks ass of course.

I’ve also been missing the healthy high I used to get from helping other women entrepreneurs strategize their dreams - so I’m going to start offering, on a very exclusive basis, some business development “jam sessions” for entrepreneurs at all levels, and creative types who want to turn their art into a business.

What I know to be true is that when you heed those deep creative inklings – even if the change demands you to stretch to new dimensions – beauty emerges. Always. I’m grateful for all that’s been and all that’s to come.

You can find me at d@daniellelaporte.com and at my new website, White Hot Truth.

My Love,
Danielle