November 17, 2025

Book Therapy

Write Your Own Prescription for Sanity During a crisis, the human brain shuts off all questionable information and demands truth, verifiable facts, and reliable direction. Fire? Where is the exit? Pandemic? Where is the vaccine or emergency room? Tornado? Where is the safe room? When the crisis is not real but manufactured, […]
November 5, 2025

Everything Is A Story. Her Manifesto is Our Theme Song.

Linda Caroll. She Had Us at “Hello” Where do the pros go to improve writing and storytelling mastery? Linda Caroll does not write about herself, so I will. Every Tuesday and Friday I watch for her Hello, Writer! Substack. It’s a big deal priority because I feel one percent clearer and stronger […]
September 13, 2025

Attention. Energy. Outrage.

What’s Happening to Your Brain, Why, and What You Can Do About It If attention is the substance of life, then the question of what we pay attention to is the question of what our lives will be. Attention was a big deal one week after Trump’s 2025 inauguration when I waved […]
August 16, 2025

The Gifted Mind’s Compass: Navigating Purpose and Peace Through Chaos

What’s it like to be you?  You seem to experience great joy and laughter at the same time you express deep exhaustion.  This profound dualism, this constant tension between deep understanding and overwhelming fatigue, is something many of us know intimately. The Weight of Awareness Let’s call this inherent experience what it […]
July 18, 2025

Michele Molitor. Her Life’s Work Started When Her Career Ended

Join Us On This Journey from Job, to Career, to Calling Nobody tells you this when you are 18, so dive into this story about Michele Molitor and see if it speaks to what you know already or may be experiencing now. Nobody tells you that you start with a job. It […]
July 11, 2025

When the Gifted Log Off: Why the Digital Economy Rests on the Shoulders of the Few

From insight to consequences to reckoning The digital economy appears as frictionless, infinite, powered by code and data. Beneath the sleek architecture of platforms and algorithms lies a truth that rarely makes it into earnings calls or tech manifestos: The digital world runs on the backs of gifted humans. The journalists, authors, […]
July 2, 2025

When All Goes Dark, Turn on the Light

Do you like mystery movies and detective shows? Me too. Have you ever shouted at the TV as though the characters could hear you or might even answer back? Normally, I watch quietly to get the story. In most detective shows, there’s a scene near the end of the chase where the […]
June 26, 2025

Decision Fatigue

How to Deal with 35,000 Decisions Every Day, Plus AI How did you get this far and achieve so much without knowing about brain science? What more and what better might happen if we looked for neuroscientists and invited them into our community of Gifted Professionals and Communicators? These questions enter my […]
June 18, 2025

Don’t wait. If it calls to you, do it now. Seize the day!

Somewhere around the third chapter of your life, the story of you needs a rewrite. I didn’t see this until I turned 50. This seemed overwhelming and scary, so I called for backup. Who would understand this, and who has experience with life journey rewrites? I surrounded myself with a trusted inner […]