=====What kind of ideas?=====
Really, any idea you want! Your next tattoo? This detail in your business model? Topic for your next article or blog? Or do you have something just at the tiiip of your tongue and you KNOW it'll come out if you just started saying words out loud?

I am your gal! I'm pretty good judge of thinking style, so I'm flexible in the type of brainstorming that would help the most. Some people just need to say it out loud and you just gotta listen. Other's need some goading questions or even suggestions/opinions.

I love the entrepreneurial environment; even if your idea is just a lil baby thought, everyone around you will hold you up and tell you it's worth it, you just gotta keep thinking. It's refreshing. And that's exactly how I want you to feel. I basically want you to get to wherever you're trying to go, without overshadowing your own thoughts. I mean, if you want a new tattoo, you must have an idea somewhere in your brain.

=====How it works=====
We'll schedule a specific block of time to brainstorm. If we schedule more time than we use, i'll just round the time spent to the nearest 30-min mark and charge you only for that.

As for the actual session, I'll make sure to manage it by explicitly stating what part we are starting.

1. Introductions: you explain a list of everything you want to talk about and maybe where you want to land at the end of the session. Only explaining! No brainstorming!

2. Intermittent alerts: You can tell me whatever interval of time for which you want me to call out. For example, if you want to keep track of how many 30-min periods go by, I'll make sure to say something or have an alarm go off every 30 minutes.

3. Brainstorming: I will say "Okay, now let's start brainstorming." Then I'll turn a timer on.

=====Why am I doing this?=====
I've seen a lot of posts about helping build up start ups, but as an owner of a startup myself, I- well, tell me if this sounds familiar:
You think you're ready for that branding advice or ready to build your product or offer your service, but then your advisor asks you a basic question about your concept and you draw a blank. Back to the drawing board :( You go back home or to your office or Starbucks and grind gears. Ah, ha! Added more detail, fleshed out the idea, have the PERFECT answer to that question. You go back to your advisors.

"So how do you plan to leverage X to make up for obstacle Y?"
"Well, actually I .. .. uh. ."

Dang it > : ( Now you go back home or whatever. You get ready to start move those brain juices aaaaand you're in a rut. Writer's block, creative constipation, intellectual slump, whatever.

I know that feeling and it gets frustrating if you're starting out on your own. So I'm here to listen and help you through it!

Think of that episode of House, where he had to diagnose a patient without his team. He ended up just talking through everything with the janitor until he figured it out on his own!