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It started innocently enough. My sons wanted to know what it was like when I was growing up. (Obviously, this was for a school assignment and not out of sudden interest in their mother’s backstory.) I began by telling them about my friend, Lauri, who lived across the street. She had all the coolest toys… ...
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You can watch and listen to it HERE. It was inspiring to ask Rich a few questions since he’s normally doing all the inquiries to his guests. Here are the five
April 28, 2025
Why I Wrote “Un:Stuck: Helping Teens and Young People Flourish in an Age of Anxiety”‘What makes you feel most alive?’ is a question I continue to ask my children. I
April 27, 2025
Our cultural assumptions about creativity tend to lionize youth—think of Mozart composing at the age of five or how we celebrate the disruptive energy of Silicon Valley’s “under 30s.” Yet
April 26, 2025
I love this recent Huffington Post article about Megan Vered who wrote to a wide circle of friends that she’d like to celebrate her 70th birthday doing 70 really interesting
April 25, 2025
But, I found Ross Douthat’s column from this past weekend, An Age of Extinction is Coming, and David Brooks’ What’s Happening Is Not Normal. America Needs an Uprising That Is
April 24, 2025
There’s social science evidence showing that younger people consistently and markedly overestimate how satisfied they will be in five years, while older people underestimate future satisfaction. Researchers have found that
April 23, 2025
Steven replied, “If we’re lucky, we’ll all get older, but only a few of us will become a true elder.” I laughed it off, but within a half-dozen years, I
April 22, 2025
The eyes may be the window to one’s soul, but the gut is the window to one’s wisdom. The gut is often called our “second brain” for good reason—it holds more
April 21, 2025
I see them everywhere: people standing in elevators, at bus stops, in line at grocery stores—their eyes fixated on their phones. And yes, I’m guilty of this too. I call this having
April 20, 2025
There’s an old story of a child who comes home and says, “mom, mom mom…” (for those of us with kids, we’ve been there). Mom, of course, is busy with something. She
April 19, 2025
We don’t need to live longer. We need to live deeper.And that doesn’t require a plane ticket or a new guru. It starts with this moment. This breath. This brave
April 18, 2025
As we write about in our Anatomy of a Transition free ebook, most personal or professional transitions can be mapped out into three stages: the ending, the messy middle, and
April 17, 2025
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