You are, hopefully, just about to spend time with a lot of people who presumably love you. And for most of the clients I work with, that includes adult children and grandchildren. That can be a considerable sized group. Three ways to leverage your Thanksgiving gathering to jump start your online presence. If everyone in…
So excited to share this new video series for client The Juniper Center. The theme is “Mom to Mom” when one of the moms is a licensed clinical psychologist. That would be Dr. Margo Jacquot, Chief Care Officer (and founder and director of The Juniper Center. The series is an example of how easy it…
Boomers vs Millennials. Or not really “versus.” We just have totally different cultural contexts. From Ellen to Oprah to Eugene Levy and his son, the Boomers and Millennials compete to see who knows more about the other.
A big ‘hullaballoo’ came across my Twitter feed this week. “Would a Person of Color (POC) be assigned an article like this for a major publication?” the chain started. The “article like this” in question was by a middle-aged reporter who was white, covering a group he was first hearing about: BTS. Beware Outsider Syndrome…
I saw the familiar panicked, trapped face of a party guest from across the room. She stood next to the stuffed mushrooms, across from Edgar. “I wonder what kind of mushrooms these are,” she innocently asked. That was all Edgar needed to start his monologue on genus, family and habitat for every mushroom that ever existed.…
Here’s a scene you wouldn’t typically associate with Shakespearean theatre: People ages 8 to 80 whoopin’ it up as they learn about the six wives of Henry VIII. That was just the scene during Chicago Shakespeare Theater’s production of Six. How? The historical characters were presented as pop stars, mimicking the likes of Beyoncé and…
Given studies that show music can enhance mental health and improve cognitive performance, and in honor of the 13th Anniversary since I founded Intercultural Talk, Inc., here are 13 songs, an entrepreneur’s playlist, to capture the joys and challenges, stress, glee, and ultimately amazing pride and satisfaction in being an entrepreneur and owning your life. What…
I almost didn’t see Poms because of the poor reviews. That alone is a good lesson, because of how fun and uplifting the movie is. Poms is about a woman, played by Diane Keaton, who moves into a retirement community knowing she is dying. She’s required to join a club, per the community center…
In December I did an intensive Improve and Writing class at The Second City. In March I went to the first Satire and Humor Festival in New York City. For April, I’m doing Camp NaNoWriMo (the mid-year call-to-action for November’s National Novel Writing Month). All of this started with one of my goals for this…
As a small business owner I like as much “objective” structure and framework as I can create. In life, technically, we are all making it up as we go. The “My Three Words” (a la Chris Brogan) exercise is a way to frame things I’d like to see more of for the coming year. They’re…
