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This is a long one – so hold on to your hats. I'm leaving on a jet plane. Or will be trying to anyway… Photo by Bruno D Rodrigues On Feb 3rd, I accidentally booked a flight to the wrong city – it was almost 3am, do not make travel arrangements when tired! I immediately phoned Expedia . . . → Read More: My Expedia Customer Service Nightmare I won’t be making any resolutions this year. And it’s a good thing I didn’t need a reason to pick myself up and pull up my socks up, because it would have been a loooong year. From hard to identify neurological issues resulting in multiple hospitalizations to having to cancel my wedding (less than a week . . . → Read More: Why I Am Not Writing New Year’s Resolutions Rick Mercer’s rant from October 25th, 2011 has helped me to identify something that had been nagging at me about the #ItGetsBetter campaign, something I hadn’t been able to quite put my finger on. First, a heart wrenching, and hard to accept statistic: *In Canada, 300 kids take their lives each year* Let’s just reflect on that for a second. . . . → Read More: Let’s Make it Better Now I didn’t think I was ever going to write this blog post… But on Monday evening, someone asked, in front of a room full of people (people I don’t know very well at that), when my big day was… Later in the week, someone was surprised to hear that I would be at Blissdom Canada this . . . → Read More: Bittersweet Blissdom You can read about part 1 of my experience at #140ConfOnt here. Another one of the things I remember vividly about this day is how much I wanted to hug Brianne Jordan (@touchbykenadie) when she started her talk and I didn’t even know her story yet… (and trust me, I wasn’t lacking in the hug department, at . . . → Read More: #140ConfOnt – Part 2 As mentioned in a previous post, last week I made the last minute decision to attend #140ConfOnt and am I ever glad that I did! My friend Tricia (@mumby) has been to a few of the events in this series and has talked about how awesome they are and how you you get to hear great stories . . . → Read More: #140ConfOnt – Part 1 It’s no secret that the last 2 months have been… interesting? emotional? demanding? The old me would have said down right crappy. But that was before I had to worry about something we now call “personal brand”. Let’s take a step back for a second. It’s not like I woke up on the wrong side of the bed one . . . → Read More: Everybody Hurts… sometimes Because I can’t actually fathom speaking or writing these words more often than I already have, here is the most unlikely possible update I could have ever imagined needing to share. {Update: if you click on the link you will see that Andrew Stanton @geekstanton has decided to delete the blog post that I wrote on . . . → Read More: There are no words…  Reading The Thank You Economy on a recent West Jet flight I am currently reading The Thank You Economy (you can download a free chapter by following that link or find where to purchase the book) by Gary Vaynerchuk and quite enjoying it. (You can visit his website here and of follow him on twitter here). I will admit that . . . → Read More: Power to the People – Part 1: The Good After a particularly difficult break-up last year, I lamented to my girlfriends that perhaps I was missing the “douchebag detector” gene. I had just been broken up with by someone who continued to tell me he wanted to spend the rest of his life with me, was following some of my friends through the “tweets near . . . → Read More: The One |
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