[Video] In face of big events is your business even relevant?
It took me some time to realize that the fall illness that had me coughing and hacking these last two weeks was actually unexpressed grief around the U.S. election. And, as I watch the president-elect appoint a creationist as the Secretary of Education, and a man who has made a living partially out of giving […]
An untasty recipe for end-of-year
Last week I led the Heart Sessions retreat here in upstate New York, with an amazing group of heart-centered business owners. We did chanting, we went deep, and what emerged from the depths was startling to behold. (Yes, there will be one next year. We’re still finalizing the dates.) The recipe is simple, but not […]
[Video] The lesson of the 3 jars
This week I’m out of the office leading a lovely group of heart-centered business owners at the Heart Sessions Retreat here in upstate New York. The rest of the team is around, though, including our team member Yollana Shore, who brings an inspired Sufi teaching to new life. Before we get to her video, I […]
I don’t know what happened
I’m writing this before U.S. election results are in. I don’t have anything to add, you know now as you’re reading this better than I do as I’m writing this what in the heck happened. Every Monday we have a live Remembrance call in our Community, where we take ourselves into our hearts on some […]
Where to focus after a car crash
What a week! Last Thursday my wife, Holly, was in a car accident. The car was totaled and she has a fractured pelvis that is healing more rapidly than one might imagine. Special note: I SO appreciate all of your care and love for her, for me, for our family. Please send that to me […]
How’s that “healing the world of business” going?
This past Friday was one of our every-other-month Virtual Retreats for our Community, and on one of the calls, a retreatant asked me, “I love that you are taking on healing in business, and, with all that’s going on in the world, I’m wondering how you think it’s going?” Whoooosh…. I just paused and sat […]
When everyone seems better than you are
My nearly eight-year-old son Sam crushes us all in a memory matching game. You know, those games where you set out cards face down, and there are matching pairs of pictures, in this case your friendly neighborhood Spiderman and some of his villains. The best I can do playing Sam is tie him— I’ve only […]
Yom Kippur
In the Jewish calendar, today is Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement. Or, as friends of mine like to say, the day of At-One-Ment. It is arguably the holiest day in the Jewish year, a day of fasting, or recognizing mistakes we’ve made, and of opening our hearts to the Divine. Although in popular culture […]
Brush-hogging an acre of your business
At White Hawk, the ecovillage we live in, we’re about to start a 1-2 acre hazlenut grove project. The location we picked is currently full of goldenrod and some other brush. It’s land that hasn’t been used for human purposes in quite some time, and it’s in the process of turning from a field into […]
4 things that free sessions need to work
Updated 2/17/21 When a business owner offers free sessions, there’s usually one of two results: crickets, meaning no one responds. Or, instead, people respond, free sessions are given, but no new clients come from it. It’s hard to know which is worse. It’s great to have the validation when people do respond, but all of […]