The Most Offensively Unedited Post You Will Ever Read

By Jill Fratianne
on January 17, 2020

I have debated over writing this post for many years and am finding myself editing even this first sentance. I am severly dislexic. I can't even spell the word after 38 years of living with it. My goal is to give the OCD editors a glimpse into what it feels like to live with what my barin sees. The post may not make sence, but it's how my brain sees letter and words.

THere are a number of books to get over what I suffer from, and I still plan to overscome this - but the reality i can't see letters in my head. I can reciete bethoven symphonies by ear, see colors in my mind for many years after seeing them and match them to paint swatches, but I can't see words, letters, music notes, adn for the life of me I can't remember how to spell sometimes even the simpliste of words.

How I Hit #1 in HubSpot Sales and What's Next

By Jill Fratianne
on December 31, 2019

The Irony of this post is quite remarkable. I originally wrote it when I was still pregnant and #1 on almost every HubSpot sales chart and heading off for a planned C-Section.  It's been in draft mode ever since.  I wrote this 3 years ago and never finished or published it because... enter in early motherhood.  I also decided to leave the title for increased irony. This last 3 year journey has had more rollercoasters than I ever dreamed possible. In the last two years at times I couldn't have been further from #1 and had to slowly change all of my life habits to get to a place where I hope to welcome another top performing year professionally but more importantly personally as a human being.  I thought it only fitting as today ends the completion of a decade at HubSpot ( December 31st, 2019), I publish a blog. Finding this one in draft was serendipitous. 

One Year After My HubSpot Sabbatical

By Jill Fratianne
on January 25, 2016

Co-Founders Brian Halligan and Dharmesh Shah have heard from me on more than one occasion - thanking them for the strength, wisdom, and fearlessness it has taken them to grow our company to where it is today.  Nothing has made me prouder to be a HubSpotter than when I took full advantage of the HubSpot sabbatical.  After 5 years of working at HubSpot, I qualified for the gift and was the very first official employee to take it.  A year later (to the day), I have finally gotten around to putting into words what I learned from the experience.  Although I had plans of a major slideshare presentation and multiple essays...they just never happened.  Now, I am happy I waited for a year to pass, because it allowed me to truly recognize and appreciate just how much the sabbatical changed things for me professionally and personally at Hubspot. “What did it REALLY change for me?” the answer is everything. I am limiting myself to writing this post's outline in no more than a half an hour (the details will take longer) but I chose to do so with the goal of getting an immediate gut reaction from myself, as I have been thinking about what to say for the past year. Time to just make it happen...(30 min Pause). I came up with 28 things.

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