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…and the Oscar for casting goes to… I wish! Welcome to my annual list of Casting Directors who did not get nominated for an Oscar because there is still no Academy Award for casting. [...]

Are You Ready To Fall In Love? Forget dating app hook-ups, say goodbye to ghosting and start looking for the one. We are looking for American men and women from across the United States (20 to [...]

  “Do The Work, Identify Your Intentions, Know Your Worth, Don’t Be Tempted By Shiny & know that things are subject to change so REMAIN OPEN” – Bevy Smith I’m [...]

  ICYMI corporate and personal manifestos have replaced mission statements. Manifestos are not new and they are all around us. The Declaration of Independence is a manifesto as is Dr [...]

I’ve been following many threads about L’Affaire Billy Bush. Many young television hosts have asked what could one do differently in a similar situation, because if you work in the [...]

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 [...]

Aside from my family, the New York Rangers one day winning The Stanley Cup again and maybe Idris Elba becoming a friend, nothing warms my heart like great feedback from a client. Yes, my ego [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Podcasts are all the rage. So I was flattered when Mike Janela invited me to be a guest on his podcast. Mike took one of my TV Hosting Classes in 2015 and ran with the idea of focusing on what [...]