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The Courage to be Disliked We’re almost three months into the new year, and we all have made choices about what kind of year we’ll have.  Perhaps you are powerfully choosing to be inquisitive this year?  I’m a strong believer that we can learn something from everything.   After coming off a year of authoring […]

Build Your Insider’s Board Earlier this month, a friend of mine initiated a conference call between her, another friend, and myself.  Just out of the blue. No warning. Nothing.  She started the call by telling us that she wanted to be more intentional about her relationships this year, and one way of doing that was […]

Powerfully Choosing Connection Connection.   We are human beings and need that human interaction.  We crave it.  There is a physical and mental shift that happens when we do.  Of course, there are positive connections and negative connections.   In my book, The GSD Factor, Get Sh*t Done, I talk about the importance of living life with open […]

Women, Patents, and Trademarks Women represent fewer than 15% of patent holders.  It is difficult to find verifiable statistics on registered trademarks, but one can assume that the percentage is within the same range.  The percentages continue to drop for other minority and underrepresented groups.   Whatever the number is, it’s not enough.  It’s a statistic […]

Powerfully Choosing in 2024 I’m not someone who believes in new year’s resolutions because I believe that we are constantly evolving, ever learning, always failing and trying again which allows for pivots.   Anyone who has heard me speak knows that I love to reference my favorite Friends episode where they are moving the couch, […]

A Life of Influence and Inspiration For my first 2024 blog, I want to honor someone who’s been a continuing influence and inspiration in my life. I want to teach about them, and I want to remember them.  Oftentimes, we may forget to look at those that have gone before us.  We can learn something […]

A Life of Being Imaginative Attribute Three, Be Imaginative, tells us to dream big and think outside the box, which also leaves room for us to try new things.  Recently, I jumped back into singing, songwriting, and performing after a brief hiatus.  I needed a break.  I was so disillusioned with trying to make it […]