Check Your Surge Capacity

Listen to the audio version of this post here.   You can hardly count the ways life has changed—for all of us—in the past six months. You can certainly feel them. And feel them, and feel them, and well, you know. Your clients and colleagues feel the changes too. So do your friends and your…

“The Connect”—Why You Need It

Listen to the audio version of this post here.   Political campaigns and conventions are such an opportunity to study what works … and what doesn’t … when it comes to getting a message across and persuading people to pick you. That’s a priority for presidential candidates, of course. It’s also crucial for all of…

What Happens When They Mirror Your Mood?

Listen to the audio version of this post here.   What state are you in? It’s not your location I’m looking for. I’m curious about the way you’re being at this moment. That means the emotion you’re feeling. And the way you’re thinking. How you’re holding your body. The way you’re moving—or not. Your energy…

Getting Around To It

Listen to the audio version of this post here.   Some of us are launching whole new careers because the pandemic has upended the old one in ways that seem insurmountable. People in retail, fitness and hospitality are among those reinventing themselves as their employers close for good. Some of us are adjusting. Doing the…

Where’s The Meaning In The Mayhem?

Listen to the audio version of this post here.   How are you holding up? Seriously. It’s a lot, isn’t it? The pandemic. The economic collapse. Now the demonstrations along with the looting and destruction that accompanied them. Stores and restaurants just beginning to come back from the CoronaCrisis have been shut down again, some…