Is Anxiety a Totally Bad Thing? I used to tell a one-liner that went like this: Anything worth doing is worth getting anxious about. People thought this was funny and apt, but over time, the idea faded from my mind. Which is too bad, because I could have used that rueful insight during COVID. That’s Read More
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How to Give Effective Feedback
Feedback is a touchy subject for me. Even though I give it all day in my one-on-one speaker coaching sessions, I still find it hard to receive. Sometimes I can plug into my rational mind, hear the critique I’m getting, and make use of it. But often, I have to fight off thoughts that are angry Read More
You Need to Have More Sex
We all do—for our health, happiness, and sense of connection Sex is one of our most basic forms of communication. So I was startled to read, in a New York Times op-ed, that more than a quarter of Americans hadn’t had sex even once in the past year, according to the 2021 General Social Survey. No wonder Magdalene Read More
Love Languages: You Might Be More Fluent than You Know!
You’ve probably heard of Gary Chapman’s book The 5 Love Languages: How to Express Heartfelt Commitment to Your Mate. Chapman, a relationship therapist, came up with his “5 Love Languages” by asking himself, “What do people who don’t believe their partners really love them want?” Then he went searching in his session notes for answers. Read More
Hybrid Meetings? Here’s How to Lead Them
I’m not a fan of hybrid meetings I’ve led many of them in my “side” role as a meeting facilitator, and they never go as well as purely live or purely virtual meetings. Why? Because, as my creative strategist Melea Seward says, they’re meetings where “some people are live and some people are virtual, and Read More