When I was a kid, $100,000 sounded like an impossibly large sum of money. Even when I started working at my first professional job with an entry-level salary of $32,000, I thought that making $100,000 would allow one to be comfortably upper-middle cla…
If you’re into astrology, you might be counting down the days until April 25. That’s when Mercury retrograde, a cosmic event believed to impact our lives negatively, is supposed to end. If you’ve been struggling with misunderstanding…
One of technology’s great promises has been that it would free us from rote tasks and leave us more time for creative thinking. Now, generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) promises to do some of the heavy lifting when it comes to the written word,…
When I was in college, I drove across the country six times. Each fall, I would fuel up my Sahara-beige Mitsubishi Montero SUV for the 2,690-mile haul between my Los Angeles home and upstate New York where I attended Syracuse University.
It was my…
A problem pops up at work—what’s the first thing you do? The frenzied pace of many corporate environments means that we often jump straight to solutions. But this tendency, deeply ingrained through years of work and schooling that primarily incentiviz…
“You have to be more vulnerable.” What does that actually mean? If you’re a professional who is on social media to attract clients or raise your profile, what should remain in the confines of the therapist’s office and what should be public?&nbs…
As the NBA playoffs get underway, each team’s success hinges on the health of its superstars—and the quality of the short-term gig workers bolstering the roster.
Take the recent play-in game between the Philadelphia 76ers and the Miami Heat. …
In 2022, according to Gallup, only 20% of workers strongly agreed with the statement “I trust the leadership of this organization,” a 4% drop from 2019, and although in 2023 this figure had risen to 23% we still aren’t where we should be.
When I fi…
Early in my research about Chip Conley, I heard him share a perspective that stopped me in my tracks. Invoking Father Richard Rohr’s insight, he shared that we spend the first half of our lives serving our ego and the second half serving our soul. For…
As a career strategist, I‘ve worked with ambitious and responsible performers for the past 15 years. I meet them when they’re starting to ponder what’s next. They’re typically contemplating whether to stay or leave their current employment…
