I remember having several conversations about my writing style with my editor and how he thought it was unsophisticated. I remember feeling pressured into bending to what the “industry expects.” But I held my ground.

A little year-end review of all the progress, relationships and successes at Ripple Central in 2022.

Finding your voice and standing up to do what’s best for your life, career, or growth can be a challenge. But resistance is good. It tests your metal for how badly you really want something.

I always tell people not to prejudge situations. This event initially had my introverted shyness on full-tilt. But as I mixed and mingled, I had some delightful conversations with really interesting characters.

September may be almost over, but it will forever live in my memory as the month we started something amazing. Maybe the biggest Ripple Effect yet!

Are you showing up as yourself in the world or are you showing up how you think you need to be to get people to like you, do business with you or pay attention to you? What exactly needs to happen for you to lean into being more of yourself? Trust me, it’s one of the most liberating and freeing things you can do.

I have a leadership challenge for you this week. Think of who has inspired you with their leadership and ability to create positive Ripples in the world. Then, follow the instructions in the post. Are you up for it?

You’ve probably heard the phrase lead by example. It’s a good one and the ultimate baseline to guide and direct your daily actions. I challenge you to Ripple by example.

The Ripples we create may seem so insignificant to us at the time but can have untold value to the person we create them for. Sometimes that value is incalculably huge for the other person.

Last month, we launched a new initiative called Good Questions. It’s a chance for the Ripple community to ask me all the burning questions. But it’s also a chance for ME to ask YOU some of my own. In June, I wanted to know a little more about how I and my team can make a difference for YOU, since July’s Ripple Membership theme is all about making a difference.

Opening the right door is the key to Rippling

There is still time to answer the bell and step up and do our Gather Challenge!

Calling all Ripplers to join us in June for the gathering challenge!

Since you learned how to become insecure, you can just as readily unlearn it. Notice I didn’t say “easily” unlearn it.

How many of us would stay whole in our vision and undivided in our purpose? Whether it be an idea, a stance, or simply how we function and operate in the world?

The key driver is helping people feel a sense of belonging and contributing to that in some way. I guess that’s my bottom-line motivation for everything from an outsider's perspective. I don't want anybody else to feel like an outsider, so I just have to share what I know.

Courtesy pays boys and girls. Sometimes very, very well.

In today’s world people’s b.s. meters are highly calibrated and most people don’t want to be pitched or sold to. That is why the way most professional networkers go about it doesn’t work. In a world that is driven by relationships, there are no shortcuts. There are only people who are willing to put in the work and those who want to short-cut the process.

Why is professional networking broken?