I often travel for business and my husband always picks me up from the airport when I return. Even though we talk on the phone each day while I’m out of town, we rarely get into heavy conversations. Our car ride home, however, is when we fully debrief and catch up on...
My father, a first-generation Italian-American loved to preach about how “it’s not about what you know but, who you know.” Given that my dad dropped out of high school to help with the family business and later went on to join the police academy, his affection for...
As the parent of two teenagers, one who just finished the college admissions process, I was justifiably outraged at the news of the college admissions scandal that involved more than 50 wealthy parents along with top college coaches, testing proctors, and led by a...
On today’s show we welcome Carmine Gallo, a business communication expert, internationally popular keynote speaker, and author of several bestselling business books like Talk Like TED, The Presentation Secrets of Steve Jobs, and his latest, Five Stars: The...
My co-founder, Tim Wikstrom, and I had been friends for several years before we began our startup. We had worked together, formed a very close friendship and, when he was thinking about building a new business and invited me to join, I didn’t have to give it a...
‘Why are they better than me?’ Throughout my life, this has been a troubling thought in my head. No matter the task, I’ve always perceived that others were better than me. My insecurity about my capabilities and comparisons to others began when I was a young...
