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Advisory Perspective Series – Debra Woog, Crisis Navigation Partner
Knowing someone who dedicates their business to helping professional women navigate through and beyond a crisis is an amazing connection! Getting to know Debra has shown me how valuable this is. Today, I’d like to introduce Debra to you all. Crisis experiences impact us deeply. From my perspective dealing with crisis situations big and small, […]
Woulda, Shoulda, Coulda
Is there anything inside of you that you want to bring forward to the world? Is there something you keep putting off until a “better time”, until you have “more time” or “when there is time”? It’s agony watching life leave a beautiful soul of an amazing woman. This woman has worked with business and […]
Access to So Much Information
Access to information is easier today than ever. Technology has opened up the world to the world through apps, online news, social media, messaging platforms and more. No matter what topic we’re interested in, there are hundreds of ways to obtain information about it any day of the week! The challenge for us is to […]
Establishing a Strong Foundation For Our Future Leaders
Question for us to ponder, at what age did you start thinking about adult responsibilities? How did you learn about the “hows” of establishing a strong foundation? What is a good foundation anyway? The definition by Dictionary.com is great for the purposes of this blog today. Here’s what they say, “Foundation, the basis or groundwork […]
Fall Pick Me Up + 2020 Updates of Interest
Autumn is showing it’s true colors again this year. My fall pick me up is getting outside, smelling the air, noticing the trees and feeling a chill in the air – beautiful! As we clear the fallen leaves outside, it’s a great time to clear what’s fallen behind inside too. If you’ve not kept up […]
Real ID Update – Be Ready to Fly!
Heads up! 2 October, 2020 is less than a year away. This is important for over 200 million Americans who do not yet possess a “REAL ID” drivers license. Commercial airline flights in the US will require a “REAL ID” drivers license or other compliant identification (i.e. passport) to fly! The exception to this for […]
Circular Logic
The phrase “circular logic” popped into my head this week. Circular reasoning (Latin: circulus in probando, “circle in proving”; also known as circular logic) is a logical fallacy in which the reasoner begins with what they are trying to end with. The components of a circular argument are often logically valid because if the premises are true, the conclusion must be true. […]
Experiences Matter
Often times experiences generate deeply-felt responses. Cultural framing is often used by branding experts when studying culture and its effect on consumer attitudes, behaviors, and beliefs. Going deeper, cultural framing describes the unspoken systems of meaning at play in affecting our behavior, our attitudes, and our decisions. Have you heard of the term “customer experience”? Companies […]
Life and Business Protection Planning
I’m often asked what is it that I do? When I started The Living Planner, I wanted to test a theory. 60% of Americans do not have a will/trust or advanced health care directives. Business owners and departmental leadership rarely have considered or executed plans in case of disruption of the business or the loss […]