The number on that statement is a starting point, not a final answer and most patients have no idea they can push back. You opened it. The bill sitting on your kitchen counter with a number that made your stomach drop. Maybe it is $4,000. Maybe it is $40,000. Either way, your first instinct was…
Have you ever walked out of a doctor’s office feeling small? Maybe you felt ignored. Maybe you felt crazy. You know something is wrong. You can feel it in your body. But the person in the white coat shakes their head. They say the same thing, over and over again: “You are too young for…
The comedy world has lost one of its most brilliant architects. Catherine O’Hara, the Emmy-winning titan who gave us everything from SCTV’s character comedy to Schitt’s Creek’s Moira Rose, has died at the age of 71. Her manager confirmed to Variety that she passed away peacefully at her Los Angeles home on Friday, following a brief illness. For those…
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Adulting is weird. One minute you are fine and the next minute you get a vague email from your boss. Suddenly your palms are sweaty. Your stomach feels empty. You feel like you might spiral. The pattern I’m seeing is that we all think this feeling is bad. We think we need to throw it…
Stop letting corporate annoyance dictate your mood. The pattern I’m seeing in the workplace is that too many women swallow their frustration because they fear sounding “difficult.” Here is what needs to happen: You must master the art of professional insult. This is about translating your rage into strategy. When you control the language, you…
Remember when we had to wait a whole week between Friends episodes? Or when going to Blockbuster on a Friday night felt like the height of excitement? Yeah, that era officially ended today. Netflix, the service that already owns half our waking hours, just dropped the mother of all bombshells: they’re buying Warner Bros. Discovery’s…
High-potential professionals are wasting hours psychoanalyzing “Karen” in accounting or trying to diagnose their boss’s personality disorder. You are leaking energy, and frankly, it looks like you are letting them win. The highest-paid executives do not waste time “dealing” with toxic people. They own the dynamic. They do not offer thoughts on how to fix…
The brutal truth about corporate life is this: The person who loses their temper loses the room. If you scream, you are labeled “emotional.” If you cry, you are labeled “unstable.” But if you stay silent, you are treated as a doormat. The pattern I’m seeing in 15 years of consulting is that the highest-paid executives…
Remember when Christmas felt like pure magic? Snow on the TV screen. Songs that stuck in your head for days. Gifts that actually surprised you. If you’re over 40 now, life got busy. Bills. Jobs. No more endless vacation from school. But guess what? That spark isn’t gone. It’s just buried under adult stuff. I…
