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This Lent I’m fasting from the corporate overlords: Target, Amazon, WaPo, AirBnB, Wix, etc.

I encourage you to join me in pushing President Biden to certify the ERA and do everything he can to make it the 28th amendment before 1/20.

I choose a word each year. Not all words are effective. I’d been considering a few for this year, waiting for one to call fiercely to me.

Reframing your failure as a learning experience will make you more resilient, innovative, and creative. Learn how.

Five takeaways from BLD NW 2024, where attendees discussed doing business for good.

Several things I'm grateful for with a stay-at-home dad for a husband

The best speeches, articles, sermons, and blog posts begin with a story. I lay out three reasons why you should always start with a story.

Let's inspire inclusion in the way we communicate about women and girls. Here are some language shifts you can make to inspire inclusion.

"Barbenheimer" marketing is insensitive to Japanese people and the way they suffered from the atomic bombs.

Even though white people can fully experience how racism feels, being a minority helps us be more compassionate and understanding.

Creating welcoming cultures for LBGTQIA+ people saves lives, whether it’s in the home, school, workplace, or media. Learn how!

Don’t waste people’s time and clog up their email boxes by replying all. Here are 5 ways to prevent this from occurring.

Writing a compelling proposal takes a lot of time and energy. Don’t waste your investment by making one of these mistakes.

It's time to find a new word for "stakeholders," which causes generational trauma and harm to Indigenous peoples.

I'm grateful for my resilience. But I also carry grief about not seeing other people with cleft lips and palates as a child. Representation!

Choosing a word to guide me is more powerful than New Year’s resolutions. The word guides my decision making and priority setting.

Each holiday season, I'm reminded of how far we have to go to root out sexism in our language. Here are 8 tips on how to do that.

As the world watches Elon Musk destroy Twitter, I realize he has mastered one principle of communications (while failing at others!).

Lesson 1 of writing winning proposals: it's not about you! Talk about your client instead of yourself.

I've been on both sides of layoffs. Here are six ways to do layoffs a little more humanely and preserve your employees' dignity.