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Wynton Marsalis, the great jazz virtuoso, spoke last week about mastering a moment of chaos. His equally renowned father, Ellis, recently passed due to complications from COVID-19. The younger Marsalis bravely spoke about how his dad would be urging him to get on with...

The first quarter of 2020 has certainly given us all reason to pause and wonder. Hundreds of questions rise up. When will we get back to our lives? Will our businesses survive? What’s to become of our national and global economies? When and if we do resume our life of...

We’re well into weeks of the stay-at-home and social distancing recommendations as this crisis unfolds. I’m hearing a lot of stories across the country, and I know you’re all working hard to keep your families healthy and your businesses alive. Many of you have been...

Interesting times. If you hadn’t fully bought into the idea of a global society, COVID-19 has probably made a believer of you by now. We’re all in this together. With 50% of Americans expected to contract the virus, there’s no room for race, gender, politics, or even...

Evolutionary periods are stressful. We’re in the midst of one right now, and many of you are wondering, can things get any crazier? In the midst of rapid change and increasing turmoil, we’re also faced with issues like global warming and the onset of complex health...

Every time I have a conversation with someone in business, whether it be a client, colleague, or friend, haunting memories of the 2008 recession pop up. The memories of that dark time in our economy apparently still linger. Most of those memories are associated with a...

In my early 20’s, I worked for a very prestigious law firm in downtown Los Angeles. It was the height of cocaine euphoria—and no one thought much about it because, well, cocaine was considered an elitist drug. Something cool people did at posh parties in Beverly...

I was reading my meditation early this morning, and as is typical, the teaching always seems to be perfectly aligned with exactly what I’m feeling on any particular day. Today was one of those days where I was dreading some of the administrative stuff I needed to...

Transitional moments represent all the messy stuff that throws you off kilter. They unexpectedly interrupt business and life. Divorce, loss of employment, identity crisis, chronic illness, profit loss, empty nest syndrome, career transitions, an angry client, a...