We were sitting around the kitchen table eating dinner earlier this month. Josh looked at my husband Darryl. “Dad, did you know that Mom’s tribe stole your land?” Without missing a beat, Darryl said “Why yes, son, I did.” I tried not to spit out my food. Such discussions are not uncommon around our household, [...]
I spent three days in Washington DC last week, two blocks from the White House, at the Work-Life Focus: 2012 and Beyond Conference, put on by the Society for Human Resource Management, and the Families and Work Institute. In attendance were many human resource professionals who spend their time trying to find ways to make [...]
Yesterday, I sat in a large conference room at the Washington DC Capital Hilton and listened to Colonel David Sutherland talk about his experience as a member of the armed forces for the past 26 years. Colonel Sutherland is the Special Assistant to the Joint Chiefs of Staff with principle focus on Warrior and Family [...]
It was 1979 and I was thirteen. In seventh grade, I should have been focusing on getting a good grade in English and excelling at my first job washing dishes at Swensen’s Ice Cream Parlor, but I was too busy thinking about Mike Keller. Ah, Mike Keller. Handsome, mysterious, with long feathered hair and a [...]
I talk to a lot of emerging entrepreneurs who have the view that marketing starts when you have a completed website, clear offer, snappy elevator speech and crisp business cards. This assumes: Marketing is only about selling services You must have your brand (and offers) nailed before you can go to a networking event You [...]
Image Credit: tibchris on Flickr I had the great pleasure of working with Carmen Sognonvi few years ago, when she was still a corporate employee working diligently on her side hustle, which at the time was a speaking and consulting business focused on race and racism. She was amazing at what she did, and impressed [...]
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