Keynote Speaker, Author & Reinvention Architect
There’s a lot of chatter about our authentic selves, but I haven’t seen a definition of it that I connect with. So I went into my creative sandbox, and created my own definition of authentic self: Our authentic selves are the unlived lives within us that we sacrificed on the altar of other people’s approval…
The weather in the Northeast was outstanding last week, and I decided to take full advantage by going to the beach. Thankfully, it’s a short drive. There’s nothing like sitting on the beach in Connecticut outside the “normal” season. I sat at the edge of the beach right before the amazing beach homes begin. To…
We’re taught to live from one accomplishment to the next. It’s part of our conditioning. I love a good “To-Do” list, but it’s a reinforcement of a belief that limits our potential and reduces our sense of happiness and joy to intermittent bursts of dopamine. The belief is that accomplishment is the singular path to…
“An empty coffee pot left on the coffee maker will shatter and hurt you.” I remember, but I can’t recall where I heard this as a kid, but it stuck with me. So much so that every morning, after I pour the last drop, I turn the machine off and place the empty pot several…
Years ago, I was sitting on the balcony of my apartment in Brooklyn, unaware of the lesson about to unfold. It was a gorgeous spring day, and the morning routine I’d started in prison was unfolding as the sun peeked over the neighboring apartment buildings. It was me, a single chair (passed from tenant to…
So many high-achievers are silently stuck, successful externally but misaligned internally. I know, because I lived that life. Here’s what inauthentic living cost me, and what I learned reinventing from rock bottom. 1st Half For the first half of my adult life, I was living inauthentically. And I didn’t even know it. I had the…