It’s hard to believe I began this tradition in 2007, something that feels like several lifetimes ago. Since then it’s taken place all across this hemisphere, from NYC’s Lower East Side to its Upper West, from Los Angeles to Florida, from San Francisco to Seattle, and now to hipster Bushwick. It’s al...

My mother insists that I was meant to be born on the Fourth of July. However since her doctor had planned a golf vacation for that weekend and I was already way past her due date, my birth was induced on July 2nd instead. Frankly, I think this accounts for my life-long feeling of being slightly out-o...

This guided meditation is 6 minutes long with an extra 4 minutes more of music by my talented friend David Buchs You can stream it here or download in the link below. Click toDownload

Mostly, I thought “Command” might be my undoing. There was also one Saturday morning where the letter A kept repeating itself but autocorrect was pretty much able to adjust that as I typed. No such tech help came last week, however. Even though four years of newsletters, online courses, and god kn...

Invite HERE I was surprised that I was surprised. It seemed like an easy enough question. And yet I found myself unexpectedly at a loss for an answer. You see, I recently enrolled in a very high-end marketing program. Each month there’s a group call entitled “Needs & Leads.” Since I’m...

Charles Dickens understood it well: As the opening of A Tale of Two Cities reminds us: “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.” Nowhere was this more true than this past week as NYC experienced apocalyptic, Blade Runner skies. Vlad seemed to sorta understand that since the smoke l...

It was so out of character for me, I could hardly believe it. Real life experience was contradicting several of my most unshakeable core beliefs about myself and how I function in the world.  In fact, it took several minutes of multiple facts staring me in the face before I finally had to admit ...

The first time it happened, the situation seemed innocent enough. But since it happened again last weekend, I now detect a pattern. It begins with an effortless experience. Namely, reserving an Uber to get to a venue, in this case for a mountaintop wedding. In fact, our driver arrived five minu...

I probably should blame myself more. And I’m honestly not sure how much this is innate or because of my bad parenting but… Vlad has a level of Personal Confidence that easily wanders into Entitlement. To be frank, I find the way that Vlad asks for anything––and you could substitute other verbs for...