It’s been about a month into the school year. Your schedule is packed-in like a bad Tetris player with only tiny holes here and there. Any white space left on the calendar is apportioned to bathroom breaks, eating lunch and dinner comprised of snack bars, and telephone networking calls. There are far too many awesome […]
If you’ve been following me a bit, you know by now that I’m a firm believer in practicing gratitude. I don’t do it because I read it in some book or some cool SoulCycle instructor told me I should. I believe in its power because I’ve tried it and seen the impact it has had […]
This is one of my favorite scenes (of which there are plenty) from this great moving by Will Smith, Pursuit of Happyness. Although I’m typically one to fall for all the emotional music and dramatic pauses accompanying a director’s desire to bring the audience to tears, this one strikes a different emotion of tears. It […]
This week I had the pleasure to sit in on a panel of Acumen Fellows speak at CBS. An Acumen Fellow is a young-ish, highly educated and motivated person who enters into an intense education and full-immersion program in the social enterprise sector for a year or so working with an Acumen company, initiative or […]