I was talking with my good friend Erik Proulx last month about the various projects we are working on. Erik is the creator of Lemonade, a documentary about laid off ad agency employees who remade their lives. He is working on a follow up film called Lemonade: Detroit about the disarming resilience of a city [...]
Last week, I was the keynote speaker at the Willamette Angel Conference, an exciting and dynamic all-day event where 6 lucky startups got to pitch their businesses to angel investors, for an ultimate $200,000 prize. The grand prize winner was Montrue Technology, an Ashland-based Company who developed an emergency department information entry system for the [...]
On Tuesday night, I stared at the punching bag in front of me and felt totally depleted. Not only did I not have any physical strength, I didn’t have any emotional strength. I wanted to whine, whimper and even cry. I wanted to back down. Thankfully, I had a partner on the other side of [...]
Angela Rose, seizing the day I am the mother of a bright and loving three-year old daughter. She is funny, she is sassy, she is intelligent, and she is creative. As she goes through her life, I will do my very best to remind her how powerful and capable she is. I know her father [...]
Two years ago, when I was on my book tour, I had the great fortune of speaking at a management conference in Estonia. There were a number of other speakers there from Europe, including Morten Lund and Alexander Osterwalder. Alex’s presentation was about business models, and I was immediately drawn in by the clear and [...]
The Side Hustle and Flow Interview Series is designed to inspire hard-working corporate employees to either start a side hustle if they are interested in eventually starting a business, or to keep going with their existing side hustle through the inevitable challenge of limited time and energy. So far we have profiled Chandoo, Willie Jackson, [...]
Me delivering the very first printed copy of my book to my writing mentor, my Dad. Last Saturday, I had the pleasure of speaking at the Arizona Book Awards, honoring local authors who had published great books with local publishers. The focus of my talk was about my own journey as a writer, from passionate [...]
I had a great connecting day today. From an early morning breakfast meeting with a dear friend and mentor to inspiring phone calls with both colleagues and coaching clients, I got to talk with a lot of interesting people. All of them are at very different stages of the business cycle. Some of them have [...]
I had the good fortune to present a workshop at Laid Off Camp Phoenix this weekend, the free all-volunteer workshop put on for laid off folk in the Phoenix metro area. It was pretty overwhelming to see a room filled with 300 smart, eager professionals and realize that all of them were looking for work [...]
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