How to know when you’re ready for your big break
How will you know when you’re ready for your big break? It’s a moment you’ve dreamed about since your were little. You’ve been working your ass off for years. But are you ready for your moment? It’s an important question to ponder because, let’s face it, the world is full of people you don’t remember […]
Your Media Career: Stuck in a bad romance?
Does this sound familiar: You’re active in the media space. You’re a pundit giving commentary on news programs, a lifestyle expert sharing tips on morning shows or everyone’s favorite guest panelist. You’ve been working hard on your media career for several years and you’ve earned a level of success and yet…they won’t put a ring […]
Are You Emotionally Tough Enough?
I have not yet read Ramin Setoodeh’s Ladies Who Punch but a lot has been made of the passage and leaked video of Elisabeth Hasselbeck tearing up her note cards, storming off set and refusing to return after a public dressing down by Barbara Walters on-camera. “F**K this!” is her go-to. Not for nothing we’ve […]
What’s The Scariest Thing I Can Do? #GOALS2019
What’s the scariest thing I can do? is one of the most popular personal growth prompts, especially at the beginning of a new year when many of us are writing our goals. Eleanor Roosevelt said Do one thing every day that scares you. George Addair wrote Everything you want is on the other side of fear. After […]
How To Get Through When Positivity Isn’t Enough
I was multi-tasking as per usual when I heard a ping and these words caught my eye: What to do when positive thinking doesn’t work. I’m a positive thinker by nature but 2016 has been a hella hard year for many of us from personal challenges to the exceptional number of game changing artists lost […]
Baxter Abel: Training The Trainer
A month ago, on Easter Sunday, we brought Baxter home from Sean Casey Animal Rescue in Brooklyn. An enormous yellow lab, we joke Baxter is part Labrador, part polar bear and all Abel. What little we know of Baxter’s backstory (or Baxstory – get it?), he was picked up on the streets of the Bronx and […]
How To Be A Champion
Is it just me or does your dad send you tons of email forwards? I don’t know how he has time for golf or gets anything done in retirement with all the email forwarding he does. The good news is he finally learned to cut and paste and bcc… I cannot lie I hit delete […]
How to Nail Every Audition & Interview
Please forgive the click bait title. I’m experimenting with following best practices marketing advice from successful bloggers. The subtitle is Everyone Needs a Haka. Because developing your personal Haka will allow you to nail every audition and interview. Most of them, anyway. Mental preparation is huge. We talk about getting in the zone. Do you have […]
I’m On A 10-Day Cleanse
I’m trying something new: A 10-Day Cleanse. Today is Day 3. I know I’m late to the party. How are so many of you so cheerful and functional doing this? What motivated me to give up sugar, caffeine, wheat, dairy and cocktails for several days? A nagging, lingering case of Modern Life. You get busy, […]
How To Bee
In case you missed it, the 88th Scripps National Spelling Bee finals were last Thursday, May 28th. Vanya Shivashankar and Gokul Venkatachalam were this year’s co-champs – the Bee ran out of words after Gokul nailed “nunatak.” (A nunatak is an isolated mountain peak projecting through the surface of surrounding glacial ice and supporting a […]