Fear in its Right Place
I am a culinary school dropout. The year after I finished my bachelors in psychology, I enrolled in the local community college for the culinary arts adventure I had been … Read More
Laughter in a Locked Ward
March 23, 2020
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Sarah B
There’s a moment from a handful of years ago that I think I will remember my whole lifetime. A deeply courageous, very pregnant woman I knew was experiencing a … Read More
Escaping Imminent, Gruesome Death in the Backwoods. Sorta.
March 9, 2020
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Sarah B
A couple of winters ago, Theresa and I spent a weekend in a primitive cabin in the middle of nowhere Virginia. It was a little log cabin in a gully … Read More
The Honest CGI Dog and Fictitious Bottles of Beer
March 2, 2020
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Sarah B
Last week reminded me rather starkly that wisdom and information are often very different things, and that one invites greater openness while the other could use some well-placed blinders … Read More
Opening the Book on Aging
February 24, 2020
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Sarah B
My mother – Dr. Cheryl Greenberg, The Age Coach – was the picture of Parisian style when she spoke to my coaches group the Friday before last: Her sharply-styled … Read More
An Ordinary No?
February 17, 2020
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Sarah B
Two words keep repeating in my mind since I heard them in a podcast a number of weeks ago: Ordinary no. The podcast is The Secret Live of Black … Read More
One Daily Question to Boost Your Growth
February 9, 2020
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Sarah B
At the beginning of 2019, Theresa and I created a list of questions to ask each other at the end of the evening, questions to help us capture and … Read More
When Networking Turns into Pillow Talk (and Back Again)
February 3, 2020
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Sarah B
If you’ve been reading my blog for any amount of time, you know I return to networking time and again. It’s the most powerful tool we have to develop our … Read More
The Uncomfortable and Exhilarating Act of Asking for What We Want
January 26, 2020
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Sarah B
I don’t know if it’s apocryphal or literal, but there’s a story I once heard about the founder of the life coaching profession, Thomas Leonard. According to the story, he … Read More
The Wisdom, the Flex, and the Food
January 20, 2020
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Sarah B
Yesterday, Theresa and I spent a handful of hours cooking together. She prepped salad fixings and veggies to dip in hummus; I roasted off some other veggies, made the hummus, … Read More