A couple of years ago I was walking up Lexington Avenue in Midtown Manhattan. It was the end of a long day and I was feeling and looking pretty drab compared to the impeccably dressed employees of Park Avenue’s Fortune 500 companies. As I approached the corner and was about to step into the street, […]
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Want to know if you have a badass brand? Take this short quiz: Do you magnetically attract ideal clients? Can you charge a premium price (in other words, more than your competitors) and still win the business? Being able to charge a premium price for your services is the cornerstone for having a badass brand
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On this week’s Past Present podcast, Nicole Hemmer, Natalia Mehlman Petrzela, and Neil Young discuss Donald Trump and evangelical voters, the Ku Klux Klan, and CrossFit. Donald Trump and Evangelical Christians Donald Trump is winning white evangelical voters, and evangelical leaders are not happy about it. Niki pointed out that Ted Cruz seemed like the
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I am sitting at my desk with Phantogram blasting into my ears. Email after email spills in and I accept them like the soft runoff of a waterfall. Sometimes I even get mad about things inside the emails. It’s such a sweet and sacred emotion. Because it keeps my mind off the fact that I
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I Thought It Was Just Me (but it isn’t): Making the Journey from “What Will People Think?” to “I Am Enough” by Brene Brown 2007, Avery The Idea Shame is harmful. And because it’s not as glamorous as something like failure (seriously), we don’t talk about it. In this book, Brene Brown tackles the tricky topic
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I write this month’s letter to you, dear readers, from the balcony of the condo I rent during the winter in a little town on Mexico’s Yucatan peninsula. Tough life, huh? The truth is, life can be tough. And we often make it tougher by not taking care of ourselves, either because we never learned
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Two words: Love and Community. Where do the two meet? It strikes me that without love, there is no community, in the most fundamental sense. Love (of the romantic variety) gives way to partnership and children and growing families to extended families to villages to towns to commerce to cities to countries and so forth. Then