Today, Laura Shin is in freelance writing bliss. She contributes regularly at Forbes and is author of the ebook “The Millennial Game Plan: Career And Money Secrets To Succeed In Today’s World.” Her articles have appeared in the likes of The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Los Angeles Times, Audubon, Slate, Yoga […]
To be or not to be… a yoga teacher?
To be or not to be a yoga teacher? The 200hr Yoga Teacher Training that will save you from yourself Yoga is a hot topic these days as its popularity has become mainstream largely spurned by the increase in classes offered at gyms and fitness centers. Perhaps the growing dissatisfaction of the general American […]
Of Sirens and Muses
It was the fall of 1997. Revacomm, the design studio where I was employed, was throwing their annual retreat. We were treated to a cabin on the north shore of Oahu, Hawaii. We setup a campfire in the evening by the beach. Huddled by the fire, we got business out of the way and […]
The Choice To Live Deliberately, Money Concerns and #HoodieStory – Part 2
In part one of this interview we talked about: life perspective, leveraging your luck, dealing with setbacks, how to find your core strengths and an intro to Rob’s #HoodieStory project. If you missed it, you can read it here. (It’s a shitload of good stuff!) We continue with Robert Vo’s fascinating story of transformation with […]
Writing Challenge: Deepen Your Characters With This Technique
What makes chocolate the darling of the dessert world? What separates it from mere confectionary? My theory: chocolate doesn’t pander. It has the audacity to be bitter. It’s exactly that undercurrent of bitterness that swathes it in the complexity and range so worthy of food faddists and traditionalists alike. Its contradictions give it the depth […]
Leveraging Your Luck, Dealing With Setbacks and #HoodieStory
Robert Vo has a fascinating story of transformation with loads of insights on taking the leap into high-octane living. He is a world traveler, photographer, gallery curator at Market Street Gallery and marketing consultant and strategist in the technology industry. And now you can add Catalyst to the Force (more on that later) to that […]
Think Big
“Think Big – Unleashing Your Potential for Excellence” by Dr Ben Carson – a book review I’m not sure I’d have ever picked to read this book, classified “biography/religious” had it not been for how my eldest sister came to meet him. Electricity was out in her office building at the University of Cincinnati […]
How One Writer Got Paid to Develop a Novel
To get answers for the Fund Your Passion Project series, I turned to Shruti Swamy. Her passion project? A fiction novel exploring themes of blindness. And as the 2012 W.K. Rose Fellow, she got paid $50,000 to work on it. Here, she spills on the habits that got her living her dream. MY WRITING REGIMEN […]
I Want It All and I Want It Now: Part 3
Strength in numbers Balancing time between KQED and Vizjhanti could place me in a solitary rut. With the limited hours to spare on both pursuits, it could be a challenge to maintain a healthy social lifestyle. Don’t get me wrong, I could easily play the role of the reclusive artist. I am naturally introverted. […]
My Secret Vision Board Malfunction – Visions to Frameworks
It starts with a vision… Last year a group of friends got together to create vision boards. The process was designed to stay in-tune with your intuition. Searching through images on magazines and just stopping at anything that caught your initial attention. Without judgment or too much thought. It didn’t matter if it was just […]