Today was a day of firsts. I got to spend my first afternoon on a golf course not attending a tournament or a fundraiser, but actually on the golf course. It was such a restful experience–long on silence, sunset and friendly repartee–just the perfect kind of day. I’m thinking about how […]
Last night, as we wound our way through the wrought iron at the Margaret Mitchell house on the occasion of that legendary dame’s birth, the temperature swooned. Was it the signature BitterSouth cocktail concoction I’d barely coughed down? Or her ghost, dizzy to see denizens of a gentler, if not genteeler, South celebrating on […]
The reason I picked the self-publishing path is simple–I didn’t have a platform for my topic. I didn’t realize that. In shopping the book idea for How You Rule The World around, I got a lot of feedback from top editors. The agents and editors who spoke with me were behind some […]
Yesterday was one of the best days ever. 100 of the top marketers in the area joined forces at the second Industry Leadership Summit. The room buzzed with energy. We also collectively raised over $10,000 to send deserving Georgia teens from challenging environments to college for C5 Georgia Youth Foundation […]
I met Maya in an auditorium, just like a lot of people have. She was on stage, center spotlight. I was in the audience, safely in the dark. She recited her poem about diamonds between her thighs as an opener, her voice big and bold around something I hadn’t yet […]
“Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.” – Gloria Steinem “Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by his heart, and his friends can only read the title.” – Virginia Woolf “Most American children suffer too much […]
Sometimes I find an image or a moment so compelling I just can’t stop myself–I have to talk. That’s the power of story. Today, my W2M colleague Holly Frew, who left Write2Market a year ago for exactly the right reason of taking a public relations appointment at World Vision to […]
Fear governs greatness. Over time, I’ve realized that my fears have prodded me forward. They’re my friends. Yet when they were too great to bear, they held me back. Speaking as an entrepreneur and the daughter of an entrepreneur, I’d like to speak honestly about something we business leaders often […]
Ernest Hemingway put it well when he said, “There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.” But there’s great hope in that idea, that the process is the answer. The critical part, in other words, is not the outcome, but the journey. […]
1. A leader is best when people barely know he exists. When his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves. —Lao Tzu 2. I know no mercy and no truth, The young I blight, the old I slay. Regret stalks darkly in my wake, […]