Your bags are packed, and you’re ready to go, but then the unexpected happens. There’s a hurricane, your flight gets canceled, or you get ill while relaxing on a beach in Mexico.  With the average cost of a 7-day trip topping $2,000 for just one person, even a minor interruption in your travel plans can […]

Do You Love Your Body? Does your body know it? It might sound ridiculous to think your body needs your love. But it does. How many of us treat our bodies like garbage dumps? We criticize them in the mirror, avoid our own eyes, push them too hard, neglect their needs, and then act shocked […]

And Why a New Leadership Framework is Needed As my passion for leadership development intensifies, I continue to explore the reasons why employee engagement is at an all time low — 23% globally and 30% in the U.S. As we progress through our midlife seasons, we either become leaders or work for leaders who often […]

John Naylor, a former Lower Susquehanna Riverkeeper Association (LSRA) Board member and founder of Susquehanna Plastic Pick’n 1000 (SPP1K), has another idea for getting plastic out of the Susquehanna River. This one started with a conversation John had with Daryl Lehman at Double Blaze Painting after Daryl did some painting for John, which resulted in […]

Planning a solo trip is exciting, but there is always going to be some admin you need to take care of – and travel insurance is right up there with your visas and passport. If you’ve never had to buy travel insurance before, you might be feeling a bit overwhelmed, so let’s simplify the process […]

Note: I’m finally posting journal entries that I couldn’t post because of limited wifi while I was in French Polynesia. I’m home at the moment. This is the only port where we stayed overnight. It’s totally fine with me. Even though it is the most visited island in French Polynesia, apart from Tahiti, it doesn’t […]

You can’t have trust without connection, and we must be vulnerable to connect. The power to transform lonely jobs into thriving teams rests in our hands.

You can’t have trust without connection, and we must be vulnerable to connect. The power to transform lonely jobs into thriving teams rests in our hands.

Kintsugi: The Japanese art of mending broken pottery with gold. Everyone has their haunts—some just hide them better than others. And some, like me, have learned to make them our friends. I’ve learned that I am you, and you are me. We have been brought together for a reason—to understand the power of a collective […]

The iconic film The Dirty Dozen debuted in 1967. The movie depicts a group of WWII soldiers –“twelve general prisoners, convicted by courts-martial and sentenced to serve lengthy prison terms,” i.e., Army criminals — chosen to parachute across enemy lines and assassinate high-ranking personnel under Hitler’s command. The group of us from the Lower Susquehanna […]