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Choose Your Words. Change Your Life.

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Lesson from an Inmate: Happiness Requires Connection

A whole new, and hopefully temporary world: I am currently mother on a (minimum security) inmate. But I am noticing one thing: Ben doesn’t seem that miserable. In fact, he sounds better than he has in months. Why? Because, for the first time in ages, he is connecting with other people. Is there a lesson in there for all of us.?

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Laughter: The Sixth Language of Love

Laughter is a powerful , sixth, “love language” among those I call family- a language I learned as a child and carry with me still.

Yes, kidney donation is a big, serious deal, an act of love.

But, for my husband, brother, and me, the thing that gave it perspective was being able to joke about it - on the same wavelength.

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We Interrupt This Screen for a Moment of Real Life

Research shows that a smartphone, face down and unanswered, between 2 people reduces the satisfaction level of both participants by over 40%. One of my Digital Wellness workshop attendees added , “Yes, it’s the modern equivalent of a loaded gun on the table between two characters in a Western.”

Priorities, people. And Real Life is high on that lis

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Dear Grandma (or Grandpa), Tell Me About Your Life

You were born in Ukraine, the third of eight children. Married at 19.

You gave birth to your first child in the middle of unrest and violence: pogroms and attacks against your “Hebrew” (according to ship manifest info) people.

Your husband Harry became a refugee to America when your son, Morris. was just a toddler. That was the plan, as only one of you could afford to escape at a time,

What did you witness and experience while you waited to escape too?

How did you do it?

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Happier: The Authentic and Resilient Foundation for Success

John Jaramillo and I had so much fun sharing ideas, that this Book Leads podcast/show went way over the hour! Hope you enjoy listening as much as we loved chatting about leadership, books, setting and reaching goals but with a solid foundation of what really matters in the big picture of your life:

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Invincible: On Audacity, Big Magic and Being a Happily Flawed Badass

I think Elizabeth Gilbert and Jen Sincero are changing my (literal) dreams.

Take last night. I had the best dream.

(Ugh, yeah, I know Not a fan of dream stories either. #sorrynotsorry.)

Why so great, you ask? (of course you do. I’m making up both sides of this conversation)

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