NOTE: If you plan to see Don’t Look Up on Netflix, but haven’t done it yet…stop reading now, before the spoilers begin, and come back after you’ve watched the final credits! A Film about How We Communicate Since you’ve seen the movie, you know that (a) Kate Dibiasky has discovered a new comet that (b) Read More
public speaking
We’re All Going Back to School. Again.
NOTE: Yes, this is about public speaking in the pandemic. Someday, I hope we’ll be able to read these old missives and think “how quaint.” Back to school used to be easy Sometime in August, you would: scrape up the money to buy your kid(s) some notebooks and new clothes, check out their bus route (or figure out the Read More
3 Things You Need for “The Great Resignation”
More People in the U.S. are Changing Jobs Right Now than Ever Before And if you’re not in the U.S., a whole lot of people may be changing jobs in your country, too. This moment is being called The Great Resignation. Why? It doesn’t mean—as I thought when I first heard of it—that we’re all resigning ourselves to some fate. Read More
To Leave a Legacy, Speak Up!
Your ideas are part of your legacy—but only if you put them out into the world! Joni Mitchell once sang, “Nothing lasts for long,” and she’s right—but we humans want the best parts of ourselves to last for as long as possible. (And yes, the advent of a “big birthday” is what has me thinking Read More
Do You Struggle with Imposter Syndrome? Join the Club!
Imposter Syndrome is the feeling that you’re not really as smart or capable as other people believe. That you’re constantly fooling them. And that, any second now, you’re going to be found out. Unmasked. Exposed as…an imposter. People who suffer from Imposter Syndrome—and lots of very smart and talented people do—think that their success is Read More