Jess Lively

Over the past few months I have been getting more emails from women writing me about advice for their businesses or blogs. In talking with many of the women, I am noticing a pattern: people want to make things more complicated than they are. I am all for due diligence and research, please don’t get [...]

Today I’d like to hand the mic over to Jeanee of Dirty Laundry so she can share her experience making under her life over the past several months. I think it’s awesome to see how four steps can help someone so specifically with so many areas of her life. And I hope Jeanee’s story inspires [...]

I hope you had a great weekend! On the way home from Kalamazoo, Michigan yesterday, I read a great article about Blake Mycoskie, the founder of Toms Shoes in Inc. Magazine. He mentioned that he writes letters to his employees telling them about his travels and what he is working on and thinking about. And [...]

Today I’m excited to say that I am far, far from the studio and any work related activities. I took a long weekend to visit my good college friends in Michigan. It’s going to be a great girls weekend full of catching up. Speaking of catching up, I wanted to take a moment and do [...]

I can’t believe that I’ve been reporting for 2 months already.  Where did the time go?  (actually what I’m really saying is, should I be farther along??!)  It’s funny because when I first found out I would be doing the Dream Reports, I was so excited about the chance to be accountable.  Here it was…my [...]

Okay. So when I saw the notice in our elevator this week about a movie filming outside our building, I didn’t think much of it. Thought it was just some indie film or something local. Then this 15 minutes ago I looked outside my window to see Vince Vaughn and Ron Howard.

Flashback! Today we have a good old fashioned DESIGN YOUR LIFE interview with a really cool guest: Anna Mitchael the witty author of Just Don’t Call Me Ma’am: How I Ditched the South, Forgot My Manners, and Managed to Survive My Twenties with (Most of) My Dignity Still Intact. After reading her honest and pretty [...]

Oh man! Today I have HUGE giveaway for you all! Are you familiar with the rug company, Flor? You might have seen their floor tiles online, in their catalog or stores, or even in the CB2 store like me. I’ve been scoping out these modern rugs since last year when I moved to my new [...]

Good morning! Today I’m adding something new to MML- a video series called the Jess LC Strategy Session. The goal of these videos will be to give you a behind the scenes look at what is going on at Jess LC right now and in the next few weeks to come. Rather than learn a [...]

DETAILS ABOUT THE GIVEAWAY BELOW. Good morning! I hope you all had a great weekend. I’d like to thank you all again for the incredible support you’ve given me last week regarding some of the most difficult things I’ve gone through in the past year. And knowing that you’ve all ‘got my back’ in such [...]

I’m so glad to hear that I’m not alone in sometimes feeling like the grass is greener on the other side.  And as so many of you pointed out – it especially feels that way when we’re online.  Because honestly we can all put our best foot forward  online and so I think it can [...]

As I mentioned yesterday in the Part One of this post, I have spent the last nine years of my life thinking about my weight and food more than anything else. I split the time almost equally going in both extremes of eating too little and too much. What was once a restrictive diet evolved [...]

I was going to wait and post this tomorrow but I’ve decided to split it into two parts instead. This post outlines my history with weight and tomorrow I’ll explain my breakthroughs. The fact that I’m able to talk about this here on MML is in and of itself a minor miracle. This makes talking [...]

Today I’m going to take a breather and prepare a post that is going up tomorrow which bares another huge lesson I’ve learned over the past eight months. I’m also going to take the time to respond in email to all of the wonderful comments from Monday and Tuesday. I cannot thank you enough for [...]

Congrats to Natalie and all other eight Soc Chic All Week Giveaway winners! Your necklaces are going out in the mail later this week.  : )

First, I’d like to thank you all for your incredibly kind, supportive comments yesterday about my break up. I felt like I got a huge hug from you all and I cannot explain how appreciative I am of your kind words. After re-reading yesterday’s post, I realized that it might appear as if I’ve glided [...]

Good morning! First, I’d like to thank you so much for all of your tremendous support last week with the Soc Chic giveaway. Across all nine giveaways we had over 2,116 comments submitted to win the necklaces. Incredible! My intention here on MML this week is to share the “tough stuff” I’ve been alluding to [...]

Where to start, there’s so many things I want to talk about and share.  I wanted to tell you all about my week and what I worked on (and the ups and downs associated with that!!).  But then I realized that I also want to share with you some thoughts I’ve been having because I [...]

Thanks to Jill from The Good Life For Less for featuring the Soc Chic All Week Giveaway. FYI today’s your last day to enter . We have a SUPER fab line-up this week gals… as I was compiling the “it” list I kept saying, “…that is my favorite… no, no, this one has got to [...]

Phew! It’s been quite the whirlwind for me in the last 36 hours. Seeing the Nate Berkus Show pre-taping yesterday was amazing with Alaina and Crystal. We had such a great time that we decided to continue the day by getting Mexican food (I’m currently obsessed with fish tacos) and then drinking wine and brainstorming [...]

Okay, I’m usually a pretty predictable blogger (in my opinion) with the DESIGN YOUR LIFE interviews faithfully airing each Thursday. But lately I’ve been thinking about lessening the regularity of this series until the fall. Blame it on the nice weather, the stuff on my very full plate, or just a bit of a pause [...]

First, I’d like to say that I’m sorry that I seem to have bowed out a bit in the last few weeks on the blog in terms of personal updates and so forth. Though I haven’t done it intentionally, I’ve been going through a lot of personal changes lately and I have been working through [...]

Good morning! Today I’m announcing the Second Annual Soc Chic All Week Giveaway! Last year we did a massive giveaway for all the Soc Chic necklaces on a variety of blogs and this year we’ve decided to do the same! Soc Chic All Week Rules Between now and this Friday, June 11th, hop around to [...]

Thanks everyone for sticking with me on this journey.  It’s funny but when I get ready to write these posts I think to myself:  What should I write about this week?  What will people like to read about? (I’m a chronic people pleaser!)  And then after a few minutes, I realize that all I need [...]

Bikini season is upon us! … Scared yet? No need to worry. Though I’m not itching to jump into my two piece and strut my stuff on the beach, I have a way we all can feel lighter, freer, and (maybe) even sexier. And it doesn’t involve skipping one glass of pinot grigio or ice [...]

Today I have a real gem for all you web business owners out there! I’m sure many of you are familiar (especially if you read fashion blogs) with the awesome web clothing and lifestyle site, Modcloth.com. I have been in awe of what the founders Susan and Eric have accomplished in such a short period [...]

Congrats to Katherine and Kelly P. for winning last week’s Be Still and Giveaway Giveaway contests!

Happy June! I want to take a moment and thank all the wonderful bloggers who have asked to become Jess LC Ambassadors. I have to admit, I was surprised by the amazing response that we had right away to this idea. If you’d like to learn more about the link swap and 15% Ambassador thank [...]