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Life Lessons from the Playground – Say Please and Thank you
In continuing on with the things I learned that I summarized in Life Lessons from the Playground, let’s talk gratitude! 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%…
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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! In going through my resources and media, I found it again,…
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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,…
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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…
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Keep On
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! Very often…
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Hope on Display
Hope on Display Posted on 4 March, 2018 As I travel the hope journey, I contemplate the very familiar verse, “‘For I know the plans that I have for you,’ declares the Lord, ‘plans for welfare and not for calamity to give you a future and a hope.’” – Jeremiah 29:11 (NASB). I began reading that…
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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. “Speaker and coach, Akpene Torku Sims, embodies the true meaning of an Ezer, a strong person who protects and delivers; a strong ally. She inspires people to find that Ezer…
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Where Do you Want To Go?
One of my favorite quotes from Alice in Wonderland (aside from “We’re all mad here”) is a conversation between Alice and the Cheshire Cat: Alice asked the Cheshire Cat, who was sitting in a tree, “What road do I take?” The cat asked, “Where do you want to go?” “I don’t know,” Alice answered. “Then,” said the cat, “it really doesn’t matter, does it?” In a world and society that has so many options, many paths, and many “new and improved” innovations, it’s easy to…
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Business Etiquette with Dabi’s Daughter
I had the privilege to speak with Iyman Bradwell-El, founder of Dabi’s Daughter on topics such as business etiquette, reputation, and the like. Dabi’s Daughter is an organization developed to teach young women the ropes of succeeding in the corporate world through theory and through practice. They are open to all young women, but their…
