Heidi Isern
HEIDI · ISERN
writer. thinker. whiskey drinker.
Dancing out of Perfection

Dancing out of Perfection

When a dance floor in San Francisco taught me more about success than a decade of striving Perfection crazed much? Well, something about being in your 40s forces you to look back on your life. The mistakes, the missed opportunities, the things that slipped away versus...
Good Naked vs. Bad Naked

Good Naked vs. Bad Naked

“The thing you don’t realize is that there is Good Naked and there is Bad Naked. Naked hair brushing-good. Naked crouching-bad.” In this Seinfeld episode, Jerry dates a nudist and quickly realizes that naked can have a dark side. For example: crouching over the...
Open Up, Close More Deals

Open Up, Close More Deals

“Don’t cry at work. If you are upset, go home and cry in the shower.” This was the advice I once gave a female colleague when she was going through a hard time, leaking tears all over our Excel spreadsheets. It was 2006 and we were climbing the management consulting...