Listen here – https://someonetotellitto.org/embracing-difficult-conversations/ Jen Dalton is a personal brand strategist, international speaker, and author. Her most recent book – Listen: How to Embrace the Difficult Conversations Life Throws at You – shares intimate interviews and opens a window to conversations we may face in life. Our conversation with Jen explores the uncomfortableness we so often feel…
Category: Empathy
5 Conversations that Can Hijack the Holidays
This blog includes excerpts from my book Listen: How to Embrace the Difficult Conversations that Life Throws at You. The joy of the holidays is the chance to gather with family and friends to celebrate. Meals are prepared, festivities planned, and we get to reconnect with loved ones. For many of us, holidays may be…
5 Ways to Assess Your (In)Formal Communications
In March 2020, everything changed. Businesses had to adapt quickly to a new normal of distance in all things, but particularly in communication. Without in-person meetings, adjustments were made, and virtual solutions were found for some of the most immediate and obvious needs. However, some critical types of communication fell through the cracks, and people…
Inspirations From The Life of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
On this day celebrating Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., I took the time to pause and reflect on his legacy. I wanted to see how his life offered lessons for me personally as an individual and an expert in personal branding. So much can be said about the importance of the man, Martin Luther King…
BE BOLD. BE BRAVE. JUST BE.
“Get comfortable saying no and say yes to things that make you uncomfortable.” Yesterday I spoke at an extremely inspirational event titled “Be Bold. Be Brave. Just Be.” and it definitely required all of the attendees to do just that. When I think of the choices all of us have to make each day, we…
TED LEONSIS: PEOPLE & COMPANIES AND THE PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS
Capital One and the Global Good Fundpartnered to deliver an evening with Ted Leonsis in September. The event was presented as a salon discussion where we talked and answered questions about living a life of purpose and meaning. As it happened, Ted actually ended up sitting at my table, which provided interesting food for thought…