I had the pleasure of watching the live finals for Youth Speaks, a slam poetry event for teens in the Bay area. Watching 15 year olds pour out their hearts in rhythmatic beats infuses your core with passion for life and a renewed sense to also, yes be that true. It’s a week later but I still cannot get their verse out of my mind. The kids slammed about abuse,
For many, creating a business plan evokes scary images of excel and mind numbing data analysis. Some ‘creative types’ assume that a solid left brain coupled with a MBA is required for business success. However, this isn’t the case at all. In fact, according to Jennifer Lee, author of “The Right-Brain Business Plan: A Creative, Visual Map for Success “ the right, not the left brain is the most valuable
Altruistic duty can bring better rewards than cocktail parties…..in the long run. “Blogger’s Block” hit as I thought for something newly inspirational to write about. I had already written about female accomplishments, happiness, risk, entrepreneurial success, even how to network like a hottie. The only thing missing was a post on sex. But rather than write about sex, or perhaps entrepreneurial sex, I decided to write about something opposite—doing that
The fourth chapter of my book starts something like this: “Where are you from?” Anytime I travel I always seem to get this same perplexing question. Well, nowhere. Everywhere. I don’t know how to explain my movement over the years. “My parents were carnies,” I lie. “We traversed the earth. I also spent a lot of time in a box being sawed in half.” There are many plausible rationales for