Soaring Paulina
It’s always an honor to be asked to speak publicly… as well as a source of incredibly anxiety for many 😳. Better than being asked yourself is when someone you’ve watched (and hopefully helped!)...
Category: Personal
Labor Day ’22 is more than BBQs in California
Since joining the restaurant industry back in 1997, Labor Day has become my least favorite holiday. While many gather with family on beaches and grill burgers and dogs in their backyards, millions of others...
Day 1002: Savory Fund Restaurantology Conference
Our oldest is a freshman at University of Utah, so when the opportunity to attend Savory Fund’s annual event in Salt Lake City landed in my inbox, I jumped on it. The dinner and...
Hospitality and Kindness in Health Care
Here was the headline in the Valley News up here in the Upper Valley (central NH/VT) that caught my eye today. Having had multiple experiences at DH (Dartmouth Hitchcock Hospital, now Dartmouth Health) these...
Finding – and not Forgetting – the thing you do well…
I get a daily email from Inspiring Quotes. Today was “Find the thing you do well and do it again and again for the rest of your life.” I often delete these emails without...
Winning by Losing
Most professionals can’t actually internalize the following thoughts on grit by Adam Grant. As someone who has long subscribed to passion and perseverance as, literally, my top two character traits, I can attest that...
My Week on Oxy
DRAFT: I wrote this 10 years ago, a few days after my 3rd ACL Surgery at MGH. Last week I got a crash course on drug abuse. And it was all legal. And today,...
Receiving Inspiration
Most days we humans tend to look for inspiration from “above”… those individuals or companies or groups who are well-known, have large followings, have built a reputation such that almost anything they say is...
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