Apr82022

From ER to UR… Caring

Intercultural Spark

Dr. Tamara Beckford is an ER physician, wife and mother on a mission to help busy professional women put their health and wellness first without guilt! She’s the host of the podcast Docs Who Care, featuring interviews with physicians of all specialties. She also understands that as a busy, professional woman, it’s not always easy to take time to care for U, so she built the UR Caring Society, full of “education, inspiration, and support for any of us who feel that guilt when we put our health and wellness first.”

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Apr12022

The Future of Drone Delivery is Now

Intercultural Spark

Since 2017, Valqari has been providing the missing piece in the drone delivery process. “We have created a secure and practical solution to the challenge of the ‘Last Inch of the Last Mile’,” says Valqari Founder and CEO Ryan Walsh. It’s time to talk tech for entrepreneurs. How might access to drone delivery change your business model?

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Vulnerability vs Norm Violation

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When does showing vulnerability constitute a norm violation? And what are the consequences?   Last week I was pondering if everyday people like you and me have the space to be publicly vulnerable, or if that was only the purview of people like Will Smith. I was referring to how Will was doing the talk…

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Mar252022

Finding Your Business Voice

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Leslie Berliant is an entrepreneur, journalist, poet, author, editor, dancer, and consultant. And, as an accomplished and prolific writer, she can clearly and convincingly tell you the theme and thread that permeates and pulls it all together.

Writing is just the beginning–as her teacher Kurt Vonnegut said, “if you are writing you are a writer.” She’s an amazing teacher as well, helping others find their voice “by celebrating their most humiliating moments.”

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The “We” Version of “Me.”

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I still remember Professor Bielasiak admonishing a student in my Poli-Sci Comparative Revolutions class freshman year at IU. As he handed the student his graded essay he announced to the class, “Never use the editorial “we” unless you are, indeed, an editor, or a person with tapeworms.”   The “we” version of “me.”   Then…

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Birthdaywishesapp.com

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I was looking for a way to collect birthday wishes for Jerry Witkovsky who will turn 94 on March 29. Nothing came up, and someone suggested I invent it! URL’s go so quickly, and have great resale value if they use good words (is Birthday a good word?), so I nabbed birthdaywishesapp.com.   In the…

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