Published inAuthority Magazine·Nov 20, 2018How the Red Hot Chili Peppers Inspired a Podcasting Company(And why your company needs a podcast for salespeople) — In my last article for Authority Magazine, I connected Michael Phelps’s ability to visualize success to business habits heightening sales performance. One source on this topic was Gary Reynolds, founder and CEO of FieldCast, which produces podcasts for large corporations needing to educate and motivate their sales executives. Long before…Experiential Marketing5 min readExperiential Marketing5 min read
Published inAuthority Magazine·Nov 20, 2018Michael Phelps Visualized SuccessHow to Flex Muscle on the Sales Team, Too — When Michael Phelps was young, his coach, Bob Bowman, taught him relaxation techniques so he could visualize success. “Once you get in a relaxed state, it’s like watching a movie. Sometimes it’s like you’re sitting in the stands watching yourself swim,” Bowman says in a video on Phelps’ YouTube channel. …Sales3 min readSales3 min read
Nov 6, 2018In This Year’s Midterms, Brands Vote for DiversityThis article originally appeared November 6 on www.velocitize.com. As U.S. voters headed to the polls in a divisive election, executives from top marketers took a hard stance against discrimination in all forms. Indeed, politics filled the air at the Association of National Advertisers’ Multicultural Marketing and Diversity Conference in Miami…Gender Equality5 min readGender Equality5 min read
Published inAuthority Magazine·Oct 9, 2018The Vietnam WarA Massive Work of Storytelling on PBS — This article is featured in Creativity Is Contagious: Brands and Culture for the Common Good, Sally-Ann O’Dowd’s e-zine exploring consumer sentiment: In a divisive world, people expect brands to take ethical stands. …Vietnam War8 min readVietnam War8 min read
Published inAuthority Magazine·Sep 20, 2018Creativity Is ContagiousBrands and Culture for the Common Good — Letter from the Editor · Amanda wants to help African communities build strong economies using solar panels. · Samantha hopes to invent, manufacture and market a product that will broaden access to purified water in India. · Kim plans to study the bacteria and viruses living in and on humans…Culture3 min readCulture3 min read
Published inAuthority Magazine·Sep 20, 2018Public and ProfitBusiness and Innovation in a Hyper-Aware World — This is the first in a series of articles from multimedia e-zine Creativity Is Contagoius: Brands and Culture for the Common Good. Many companies are lagging three decades behind a society driven by social media and the hyper-aware people to whom they sell their products and services, according to two…Climate Change4 min readClimate Change4 min read
Jun 20, 2017World Refugee Day, A Prose PoemFor every share, I will donate $1 to Save the Children — This poem is dedicated to the 65.3 million people who are displaced by war and conflict. According to the UN Human Rights Commission, 1 in every 113 people globally is now either an asylum-seeker, internally displaced or a refugee — a level of risk for which UNHCR knows no precedent…Refugees3 min readRefugees3 min read
Jun 8, 2017Juliet’s ResurrectionShakespeare invented some 2,000 words and still leaves an indelible mark on nearly all aspects of culture 451 years after his birth. Here is my first poem dedicated to his linguistic innovation. …Shakespeare1 min readShakespeare1 min read
May 2, 2017STANZAS TO SAVE LIVES“I wish I could be paid to think.” Such is the only sentence I recall saying during my first encounter with Irish poet Tony Curtis in 1988. I was a 19-year-old studying in Paris on a semester-abroad program. My first time in Europe came with the life-changing fortune of meeting…Poetry Month5 min readPoetry Month5 min read
Apr 18, 2017Marching like a Prince into the LightFrom Princes William and Harry to Irish Senator Joan Freeman, activists are speaking out on the world’s mental health crisis — Princes William and Harry this week publicly discussed for the first time the anxiety, depression and rage they have experienced for two decades since the August 31, 1997, death of their mother, Princess Diana. As the world watched them grow up, we now know, they were suffering alone.Suicide Prevention4 min readSuicide Prevention4 min read
