Life Lessons from the Playground - Say Please and Thank You
Say Please and Thank You This is where we teach gratitude to our kids, and the awareness that not everything comes to us “just because”. I loved this because when my precious Ethan (terror 80% of the time and melt-your-heart-just-plain-cute the other 20%) understood how being nice and kind and grateful felt, the biggest grin would come over his face, and he started acting much kinder to the others. When he wasn’t biting, but I’ll get to that later.
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Living Your Calling on the Kim Jacobs Show!
This past week I was a guest on the Kim Jacobs Show, and we had a lot of fun talking about my journey and my passion for helping people live their potential and calling. Check it out below!
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Snippets on Innovation - 4 feet 8.5 inches
Quite a while ago, I did a presentation at a fantastic networking group on Innovation, Creativity, and Facing Fears. The hosts distilled some of the talking points in a video that, when I watched it, I was surprised at how much it helped me!
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Small Band of Revolutionaries and Shawarma
I’m one of those people who sees a life lesson in a lot of different things, and movies are definitely one of them. A favorite of late has been the Avengers. It’s great, I love the plot, the script, just everything about it, but the last few months, I’ve been pondering about cadres. What’s that, you say? A cadre is a small band of revolutionaries, a small group that can sometimes get the job done better than a mass of people. I watch the end of the Avengers, and see how they have a small band of people facing down a large, intimidating army each in their own strengths. It seems overwhelming, but working in partnership they do triumph. And go for shawarma afterwards.
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Life Lessons from the Playground - Sharing
A while back, I wrote a post about lessons I learned while I was a learning development teacher, and how some of these lesson are quite applicable in our current day to day and business lives. As I shared and got feedback, I found that there was more to the story, and many more people who could add to it. For this series, I am going to expound, in collaboration with several others, on those lessons we may or may not have learned in our early years, and how we can use them to help us play better in our current sandbox!
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Keep On
Last month, I spoke at a ribbon cutting gala, and I included this incident I experienced some years back about how we should keep going, and not turning back. I had so many people tell me how much it made an impact with them, I decided to share it with you!
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On Ramp to Success - Akpene Torku Sims
I recently had the privilege of being on a podcast with John Sanchez of On RAMP to Success, a group dedicated to helping people with self-development.
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