In December, I attended a retirement party for a former co-worker. I asked her, “What are your plans for retirement?” She immediately said, “I have a few things I want to do, but I am not going to be crazy busy, like you!” My new motto is “Living the Dream!” And when you live your…
Last week, in part II, I shared fifteen specific take-aways from the Lady and the Champs speakers conference (and the EDGE members-only summit, which was held the day before). Today, I will share more specific take-aways from the conference: You don’t give a speech, you deliver a speech. Have interesting conversations with successful people Record…
Last week, in part I, I shared my general great feelings about Lady and the Champs. Patricia Fripp, Craig Valentine, Ed Tate and Darren Lacroix put on an inexpensive yet incredibly valuable speaking conference. On Sunday Feb 23rd, I had the privilege of introducing Hall of Fame Speaker Patricia Fripp for her keynote speech.. Today,…
Home sweet home. The drive back to Lakewood, CA from Las Vegas was a grind … but it did NOTHING to kill the positive feelings I have from the Lady & the Champs Speakers’ Conference. Patricia Fripp, Darren LaCroix, Craig Valentine and Ed Tate, along with their guest speakers put on another amazing conference. Since…
When I went to my first INTERMEDIATE Improv class at the Groundlings School in Hollywood this past Monday, I was feeling that my lack of any acting training would make the class extremely difficult. I thought I would have to know how to do accents. Fortunately, I was wrong! One of the first things the…
One of my mentors, Craig Duswalt, preaches “Just show up!” Today, I attended a Toastmasters meeting and the engaging storyteller, Margaret Mitchell, talked about the power of just showing up. She shared three stories from her life where the act of showing up led to success: She applied for a job at JC Penney and…
What do you get when you combine twenty years of not throwing away nearly enough paper and mementos, creating your first home office and a Mastermind breakout session on Workspace Overwhelm? A blog post topic, silly. We recently cleared out a bedroom used for storage and converted it into a home office, affectionately known as…
I had the good fortune at my Mastermind meeting last week to hear Larry Broughton share 5 tips for being a successful entrepreneur. Larry is an award-winning entrepreneur & CEO, best-selling author, and keynote speaker. The five tips he shared made sense to me and I want to share them with you. Remove negative chatter.…
In high school, the in-class assignment that I dreaded the most was essay writing. If we were given a specific writing assignment, I could usually complete it easily in the time allotted. BUT, when the assignment was either too general or entirely open ended (you know, write about whatever you want), I struggled. It would…