Kiana & I in Berkeley, CA during the Illinois College of Optometry Board of Trustee's meeting. March 2019 I received this text this morning from my 15 year old daughter: "Happy International women’s day mom! Thanks for inspiring me and (em)powering me to be my best self everyday! I love and appreciate you 💓” If you could see the …
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A Few Things I Learned From My Dad
As we just finished celebrating Father’s Day, I was thinking of some of the life lessons that my father has given to me. I do feel that I am a product of my upbringing, my friendships, and my experiences, and my dad did a lot to mold my life. Here are a few things that I know I learned from him. Buy for quality. We didn’t have a lot of extra …
A Life By Design
At an event held in Chicago attended by 300 people, the panel was asked to introduce their fellow panelists. It was such a fun experience & different from the typical reading of someone’s bio. Tommy, a very dynamic entrepreneur that I had only met a week prior, was asked to introduce me. My favorite statement was when he declared that I live my …
The World is Your Oyster. What’s holding you back?
Last week, I joined a friend of mine to visit his cousin who became a professional athlete at age 18. Twenty five years later, the cousin has aspirations of owning his own business and bringing the “cool” factor back to the sport. He says that the sport has gone corporate, and he has some great ideas of how he can generate a lot of revenue while …