It’s my favorite time of the year, SPOOKY SEASON!  Have you ever thought about the origins of Halloween, why we dress up in costume, beg for candy, carve jack-o-lanterns and bob for apples? Listen in for a short history of the origins of Halloween, where it is celebrated and where it is ignored.  Drink of...

Most people think you need to be an expert in our given field to be successful. But look at Airbnb, Uber, Square. What these hugely disruptive companies have in common is that they were all founded by industry outsiders. People who quite literally didn’t have all the answers.  So, do we really need to work...

Have you ever experienced unexplainable pleasure at someone else’s misfortune? If you have, then you my friend have experienced Schadenfreude. Schadenfreude is made up of two German words Schaden, which means “harm” or “damage,” and Freude, which means “joy.  Researchers have found that there are three driving forces behind schadenfreude: listen in to understand these...

What would our lives be like if we had time everyday where we disconnected, not just from our phones, but from our computers, our televisions, our iwatches. Would we feel a sense of relief at the ability to disconnect and just be present in our non digital surroundings? Think about all the things we do...

James Clear, the author of Atomic Habits says that if you become 1% better each day, then by the end of a year, you will be 37 times improved. If most people spend 16 hours per day awake and 1% of 16 hours is 9.6 minutes. Then we can create huge change in our lives...

CRMs, Customer Relationship Management – more specifically the technology and the platform for managing and supporting customer relationships is supposed to help us streamline our marketing, outreach and lead generation. But more often than not companies invest lots of money into systems that their employees never use. Why? Because they chose the wrong platform.  Listen...

Recent Pew research suggests that out of those eligible to work virtually 7 out of 10 usually do. And McKinsey reports that more than 50% of employees would like to work from home at least three days per week.  So with more and more employees choosing to work from home for a majority of their...

I see you everywhere! It’s what everyone always says to me when they see me at a networking event. But the truth is I’m not everywhere all the time, I’m not omnipresent. I have just done a REALLY good job at being visible. The power of visibility is that it does a lot of the...

Most executives believe that they will lose more than 28% of their business if they stop networking – so you better believe that your competition will be networking into this recession.  Listen in for 6 tips to recession proof your network before the recession hits! Drink of the Week: The Hibernating Bear Julie Brown: Website...

The definition of mindset is a mental attitude or inclination. Psychologist Carol Dweck says there are two main mindsets we can navigate life with: growth and fixed. And that having a growth mindset is essential for success.  So. How can we develop and nurture a growth mindset so that we can achieve the levels of...