Cindy Seip, Director of Book Design
Born with a crayon in one hand and a camera in the other, Cindy Seip has never ventured far from her creative instincts. Through the years, her creative side took hairpin turns but always finished with a checkered flag.
As an “A+” student in art, it was her 12th-grade art teacher, Mr. Popovitch, that set her on a professional course in design, introducing her to the Ft. Lauderdale Art Institute. There, she would earn her degree in Advertising Design.
She began her career at the Miami Herald Tropic Magazine and later started her own design + underwater portrait photography business.
Over the years, Seip has amassed an impressive client list with some high-profile names like Sony, Nasdaq, Ericsson, Blue Cross Blue Shield, AvMed, Miami International Book Fair, Breakthrough Miami, and many more. Her accolades reflect her keen eye for design.
Seip resides in sunny Miami with her husband, Miami Herald Photojournalist, Al Diaz, two great kids, and a cute Wheaten Terrier named Amanda Bubbles.
“Leaders have an extraordinary ripple affect,” insists Sheahan, whose husband is the equally conscious Casey Sheahan, CEO of Patagonia. “We have the power to inspire greatness at home and in our workplace, by first inspiring it within ourselves. This can only occur through inner awareness of thoughts and beliefs that drive us every day. They can be fear-based or love-based.”
“Right now, for example—what thoughts are driving you?” she asks. Great question!
In this podcast interview with Tara Sheahan, you’ll learn how you can:
- Tap into your innate emotional intelligence, and understand the nature of the mind and its patterns and conditioning, to release old beliefs that no longer serve you.
- Become conscious by better understanding yourself through self-acceptance and compassion.
- Discover that work is play, with success and prosperity as a natural byproduct.
- Be more inspired every day as you start to choose the activities, people, and situations that lift you up.
- Plus, Casey Sheahan chimes in on how Tara Sheahan made an impact on the employees and bottom line of Patagonia by sharing one simple with idea with him.
- And, the couple discusses how their belief in being conscious—and living in a place of love versus a place of fear—has made their relationship stronger.
Don’t miss a moment of our interview.
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April 2013: Is your hybrid vehicle letting you down like a bad date? Has your get up and go got up and went? If you want to increase your gas mileage by 30 percent or more, let Curry’s master hybrid craftsmen restore your car’s performance—like magic!
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All across the globe, small children spontaneously speak of previous lives, beg to be taken “home,” pine for mothers and husbands and mistresses from another life, and know things that there seems to be no normal way for them to know.
From the moment these children can talk, they speak of people and events from the past—not vague stories of centuries ago, but details of specific, identifiable individuals who may have died just months, weeks, or even hours before the birth of the child in question.
For 37 years, Dr. Ian Stevenson (pictured below) has traveled the world from Lebanon to suburban Virginia, investigating and documenting more than two thousand of these cases of past-life memory.
Tom Shroder is the only journalist who has had the privilege of accompanying Stevenson in his fieldwork. He followed Stevenson as he talked to dozens of children and families touched by this phenomenon.
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April 2013, Be Inkandescent magazine — Now, more than ever before, people want to work for an organization they can be proud of. This is especially true of employees in the Millennial generation, who openly talk about wanting to be proud of where they work.
Any employer can create a culture where employees feel pride. Mission-driven organizations have a built-in way to make people proud—stress the mission and the impact that mission has on the community, the nation, and/or the world.
Companies in the for-profit arena can stress the good their product or service brings to the greater community.
Living up to the mission can bring a real sense of pride to employees.
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April 2013, Be Inkandescent magazine — “I want to push the window of sustainability to change the direction of American society,” says Eric Henry, president of TS Designs.
With his business partner and TSD CEO, Tom Sineath, Henry (pictured here) has been in the screenprinting business for more than 30 years, and he is the winner of the Sustainability Champion award from Sustainable North Carolina in 2009.
Outside of his business, Henry devotes much of his time to furthering the sustainable agenda in various community organizations. He founded North Carolina’s Burlington Biodiesel Co-op and has run his car on biodiesel (or straight vegetable oil) since 2004.
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April 2013, Be Inkandescent magazine — “Here at EWI, we know these women can and will succeed,” says Marga Fripp. “Each year, we work with dozens of budding entrepreneurs who have a great idea, and the ambition to turn it into a successful business.”
Case in point: An inspirational story written by Jeremy Brandt-Vorel, an EWI volunteer, about Elda Larue and Lyzbeth Monard. These graduates of Empowered Women International’s Entrepreneur Training for Success program are the creators of delicious cake pops that have become a birthday party staple.
“We’re so excited to have them be part of EWI community, and we look forward to watching them grow and prosper,” Fripp shares.
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April 2013, Be Inkandescent magazine — Brainstorming encourages children to think of new ideas, combine existing ideas in new ways, and generate original and often unusual ideas.
Once they have opportunities to practice this type of thinking, children can improve their ability to make inventive or creative connections between ideas and also come up with new ideas.
An important rule of brainstorming is that all ideas are accepted and none are judged. The process of suspending judgment is important as it emphasizes the importance of accepting all possibilities and helps to ensure and maintain an open mind.
Many great inventions would have met an early end if the inventors had not been open to possibilities and continually thought of new ideas. Thomas Edison’s lightbulb is one such invention.
While other inventors had already invented an electric lightbulb, the filaments that they used were not practical and either burned out quickly or used too much electric current. Edison brainstormed with his team and conducted more than 1,200 experiments before finding a filament that would burn for a long time without burning out.
A fun way to introduce the power of brainstorming to children is a strategy called SCAMPER.
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April 2013, Be Inkandescent magazine — Why wait for your body to provide biofeedback about the bad food you eat? Our bodies need exactly the vitamins and nutrients found in food that comes from the earth, so do your beautiful self a favor and fuel your bodacious bod with good foods that are readily available, are convenient, and are a direct way to give your cells precisely what they need to avoid disease or disharmony.
Say no to belly pain, bloating, and digestive imbalance, and start feeding yourself the nourishment your body needs.
Click inside for some easy ways to get what your body is begging for.
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April 2013, Be Inkandescent magazine — When it comes to the concept of doing well by doing good, I immediately think of my favorite quote from Winston Churchill, who said: “We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.”
Of course, how this is carried out will differ from person to person. For me, it requires a life balance between family, professional aspirations, and altruism—by helping those less fortunate than I.
In their book, “Conscious Capitalism,” authors John Mackey and Raj Sisodia identify four tenets that all good businesses must possess to succeed in the 21st century. Click inside to find my four tenets for success.
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By Ashley Freund
Editorial Assistant
Inkandescent Public Relations
An essential element to successful career advancement in today’s corporate environment is the use of professional and personal connections.
Finding a job is a daunting process, but support from someone who can vouch for your talent can make the process less stressful and ultimately leads to more self-confidence. I found myself in a constant cycle of recommendations and interviews at many companies, but was unable to find an organization that I felt passionate about until Inkandescent Public Relations.
When I met Mrs. Gibbs, founder and president of Inkandescent Public Relations, I felt instantly at ease. She told me in detail what would be expected from me and how, with time, my responsibilities would grow. I have tackled and successfully completed tasks from database control to press releases, and I have had the opportunity to meet people from across the world. I started as an intern, and I am now honored to be the paid editorial assistant for Inkandescent PR.
Making the transition from intern to editorial assistant was intimidating at first. I found myself concerned about how I was going to balance my life at Virginia Tech, where I am a senior, continue to be a contributing member of Kappa Delta Sorority, while maintaining the high quality of work that was expected of me at Inkandescent PR.
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All across the globe, small children spontaneously speak of previous lives, beg to be taken “home,” pine for mothers and husbands and mistresses from another life, and know things that there seems to be no normal way for them to know.
For 37 years, Dr. Ian Stevenson traveled the world from Lebanon to suburban Virginia, investigating and documenting more than two thousand of these cases of past-life memory.
Tom Shroder is the only journalist who has had the privilege of accompanying Stevenson in his fieldwork. He followed Stevenson as he talked to dozens of children and families touched by this phenomenon. What did he learn? And did the evidence convince this skeptical journalist of the existence of old souls?
You’ll learn about that, and more, in this podcast interview with journalist, author and one of the foremost editors of humor in the country.
Click here to download the podcast.
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Embrace Your Power: Red
Financial independence, courage to live your dreams, and confidence in yourself—these are the qualities that make your root Chakra strong.
It is balanced when you feel secure about your career, home, family, and future. From the base of your spine, imagine roots growing from your feet into the earth. Ground yourself by knowing that you are safe and protected.
Root Chakra: Muladhara
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Balance: Orange
Abundance, wellbeing, pleasure, and sexual health are the attributes of this Chakra.
Situated midway between your navel and the base of your spine, you are happiest when your body is healthy.
Stand firmly, radiate love from your core, and belly dance to balance this Chakra.
Sacral Chakra: Swadhisthana
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Glow Like the Sun: Yellow
The ability to feel in control of your life starts in the gut. Located behind your navel, envision this Chakra full of sunshine, for it is in balance when you feel calm about your present and in control of your future.
Radiate confidence, and your solar plexus will glow.
Solar Plexus Chakra: Manipura
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Love With All of Your Heart: Pink and Green
Joy and inner peace are central to your heart being happy.
This central spot is the beginning of your spiritual life, and is balanced when you feel good about your relationships with your lovers and friends, kids and parents.
Honor them, forgive them, and embrace the bliss that is around you as you tap into the strength of your heart.
Heart Chakra: Anahata
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Speak Well: Blue
Your true self is communicated through the honesty of your words.
Envision your Throat Chakra radiating out into to the universe, spreading messages of love and peace, and sharing ideas about how to make the world a better place.
Speak well—with clarity, honesty, and passion. You will be heard.
Throat Chakra: Vishuddha
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See Clearly: Purple
The ability to focus on, and clearly see the big picture of your life, stems from a special spot in your brow—your third eye.
Focus on your future, appreciate all that you have learned in the past, and meditate on your inner knowing.
Third Eye Chakra: Ajna
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Dream + Believe: Brown and Black
From light to dark, embrace all that is coming your way, and know that your dreams can become your reality.
Listen closely to your inner knowing using the two Chakras situated above your ears. Breathe deeply, and be open to hearing all that is possible.
Temple Chakras: Astaroth
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Sparkle: White and Crystal
In that space between sleep and awake, you know who you are and what you truly want.
Perhaps more importantly, you know what your purpose is here on earth.
Your temple Chakras (there are two of them, of course) relate to divine communication and your relationship with God. Believe, and act to make your dreams come true.
Crown Chakra: Sahasrara
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March 29, 2013 — Egan, Berger & Weiner partner Sheldon Weiner, Let’s Talk Live reporter Sonya Gavankar picks the brain of the financial adviser to find out if we really need guaranteed income in retirement.
Weiner offers insight into:
- How important is guaranteed income in retirement?
- What exactly are your sources of income in retirement?
- What do you mean by withdrawal rates?
- At Egan, Berger & Weiner, how do you structure your retirement income?
Click here to watch this 5-minute interview.
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Monica Panlilio, Intern fall 2013-2014
Monica is a senior at Washington Lee High School in Arlington, Virginia. She is interested in the social sciences such as sociology and anthropology. She hopes to major in English and education in college.
Lysa Diarra, Intern summer 2013-2014
Lysa Diarra is a junior at Washington-Lee High School in Arlington VA. She is pursuing an International Baccalaureate Diploma, and enjoy studying different cultures, ideas, and taking on new challenges.
“After high school, I hope to pursue a higher education degree in a field that I am passionate about, and can contribute greatly to,” she says. “By joining the Inkandescent Internship team, I hope to expand my knowledge of the Public Relations and Marketing industry while bringing a diverse and new approach to the already dynamic and successful company of The Inkandescent Group, LLC.”
Lucas Alexander, Spring + Summer Intern 2013
Lucas Alexander is a junior at the University of South Carolina’s Darla Moore School of Business.
He is pursuing majors in Corporate Finance and Human Resources management with a minor in Communication.
He is currently working as an intern at Inkandescent Public Relations, and hopes to pursue a higher education degree upon graduating from college in May 2014.
Rachel Biderman, Summer Intern 2013
Rachel Biderman will be a senior at James Madison High School in the fall. She is currently working as a summer intern for Inkandescent Public Relations, and is both interested and ecstatic for this opportunity. Following her high school graduation in May of 2014, she hopes to pursue the social sciences in higher education, perhaps communications or law.
Shoshana Levenson, Summer Intern 2013
Shoshi Levenson is a sophomore at Walt Whitman High School in Fairfax, VA. She is interested in human psychology, writing, social media, and communication. She looks forward to working as a summer intern at Inkandescent Public Relations, and is eager to learn a lot about the public relations field.
Molly Norrbom, Summer Intern 2013
Molly Norrbom is a rising junior at the College of William and Mary. She is majoring in English and Linguistics and is considering the field of literary publishing.
David Pendleton is an Associate Fellow at Saïd Business School and of Green Templeton College, Oxford. A Charterd Psychologist, he specialises in leadership, assessing and coaching senior executives and developing their abilities to lead change and create high performance cultures.
He co-directs the Oxford High Performance Leadership Programme with Tim Morris, and has made a major contribution to the Oxford Adavanced Management and Leadership, Programme, including a session on leadership and personality and how—through psychometrics—to assess the potential helping and hindering personality characteristics for leadership.
His most recent book, written with Professor Adrian Furham of UCl, “Leadership: All You Need To Know,” which was published 2011 by Palgrave Macmillan. It highlights the key role played by teams in complementing leaders’ capabilities.
That’s what we talked to the professor about when he was a visiting professor at the George Herbert Walker School of Business Webster University in Washington, DC in March 21, 2013.
Don’t miss this podcast with Pendleton.
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WEBSITE — Egan, Berger & Weiner Financial News
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Website design by Michael Gibbs
Website coding / database by Max Kukoy
About Egan, Berger & Weiner, LLC
EBW is an independent financial services firm. Our associates have decades of experience in helping our clients plan ahead for retirement.
Our mission is simple: To help our clients accomplish their dreams by skillfully navigating them through life’s myriad financial decisions.
That’s why we launched EBW’s Financial Planning Knowledge Center — a website filled with articles that we have written, interviews we’ve given, and information that we regularly share on radio and TV news shows.
It’s our clients who inspire us.
To show our appreciation, each fall we host a Back to School Night where we offer educational seminars with expert speakers, award a check to the Alzheimer’s Association, and celebrate our anniversary with food and fun. Click here to watch the video, and to read more about the 2012 Back to School Night. And click here to view photos of our first annual EBW Golf Tournament, where we raised $5,000 for Alzheimer’s research.
To learn more about our financial planning services, visit www.ebwfinancialnews.com, and give us a call at 703-506-0030.
March 12, 2013, Washington Post — “Most eateries have a place to sit down while your takeout order is being prepared,” writes Food editor Nevin Martell. “It’s exceedingly rare that a foot bath is recommended to help pass the time. But that’s what happens at House of Steep, which opened last September in Arlington.”
He adds: “The narrow space offers something of a triple play: teahouse and cafe in the front, “foot sanctuary” in the back. The concept was developed by 31-year-old Arlingtonian Lyndsey DePalma, who says she was inspired by her great-grandmother.”
DePalma explains: “She soaked her feet every day, lived to a ripe old age, was healthy as a horse and had a happy life. So I thought there might be something to the whole foot soaking business.”
Click here to read the entire review.
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March 5, 2013, Wall Street Journal — Sheldon Weiner is featured in today’s issue of The Wall Street Journal, in an article by reporter Niki Reading entitled, “Utilizing a Client’s Only Major Asset.”
The 65-year-old woman had recently lost her husband, and a significant chunk of her monthly income. The husband’s pension didn’t include survivor benefits, and the widow’s own Social Security and pension benefits provided just $2,000 in monthly income—far less than her $4,000 in monthly expenses. With only $35,000 in a bank account and a $25,000 annuity, she was on pace to run out of money before she turned 80.
“She certainly didn’t have enough to last a normal lifetime, and she recognized that,” says Sheldon Weiner, a fee-based financial planner at Egan, Berger & Weiner in Vienna, Va., which manages $300 million for about 400 clients.
When she was referred to Mr. Weiner by a friend, the woman told the adviser that her accountant recommended selling her only remaining significant asset: A piece of vacant farmland her husband had bought in the 1950s.
There were two problems with that plan.
Click here to read the entire article.
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By Sheldon Weiner
Financial Advisor/Partner
Egan, Berger & Weiner, LLC
“Money does not guarantee success,” insists Portuguese football manager José Mourinho.
But how important is guaranteed income in retirement? For most people planning ahead for retirement, guaranteed income makes them feel safer. They want to ensure they don’t run out of money before the end of their life.
The amount you’ll need differs from person to person, but industry standards suggest that approximately 35 percent to 40 percent of your current income should be the goal.
So how do you generate guaranteed income?
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Oy boy, said the car,
I am so out of tune!
If I’m going to hum
I need Curry’s—and soon!
My oil is too low,
and I might have a leak.
My pads are worn out,
so my brakes tend to squeak.
My tires are wearing
and could use a rotation.
My battery is weak
and needs charge-ification.
My innards are clogged
‘cause my filters are dirty.
My wipers are shot,
so my vision is blurry.
I know of some guys who can fix all my worries.
They’ve got a garage
and they call themselves Curry’s!
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http://www.beinkandescent.com/articles/1572/hiring-powerful-women-in-action — I am very fortunate to belong to a business book club. We’ve been meeting for a long time, and the group is made up of interesting, smart, opinionated women—which is exactly what you want in a book club.
We started reading books primarily on leadership and management topics and, over time, we’ve branched out to include a book on a powerful woman that we discuss during March—Woman’s History Month.
During the rest of the year, we will all read the same book and discuss it but for the March meeting, we don’t pick a book—we pick a woman. Each of us then finds a book on that particular woman and brings that perspective to the group. Many times several people read the same book!
There are many similarities to the life stories of these incredible women, and what strikes me the most is how courageous they all have been. Many of these women defied their families and friends to take a stand for something they believed in. They each also had a burning passion to help others.
So I take my hiring hat off to these ladies, and encourage HR departments around the country to take on this challenge: Develop a book club for your employees and let them pick a theme for the books to read. Not only will it be a great team-building experience, reading a series of books will inspire interesting conversations, and develop a corporate culture dedicated to learning and personal growth.
Here’s to seizing the power!
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March 2013, Be Inkandescent magazine — This month’s Be Inkandescent magazine theme, Women in Power, has a double meaning when it comes to Ursula Sladek’s “green power” movement.
By her own admission, Sladek (pictured above) was “just a housewife” when she decided to create a power company that has become one of Germany’s largest eco-electricity providers—and the largest that is owned by citizens. In 2011, her publicly owned company was worth 90 million Euros, or approximately $120 million in US dollars. Her goal is to serve more than 1 million customers.
How did she go from housewife to power mogul?
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“There is one thing that every worker, entrepreneur and business owner has experienced firsthand,” writes reporter Ashley Poulter on CEO Blog Nation.
“It doesn’t matter if you are at the top of your game in the business world or just getting your startup off its training wheels, you have still been there: bad customer feedback. There is that one customer who can’t be pleased or falls through the cracks of customer service and greets you with negative feedback about your business. They say you can’t please everyone, but you do have to deal with those you can’t.”
So how do you deal with bad customer feedback? Below are some tips from business owners and entrepreneurs.
Entrepreneur Hope Katz Gibbs advises: Keep calm and carry on
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March 2013, Be Inkandescent magazine — Anca Novacovici is the founder and president of Eco-Coach, Inc., an environmental sustainability firm that assists leading organizations to evaluate, design, and implement sustainable practices.
Novacovici has two big goals: long-term organizational success and positive environmental/social impact.
A LEED Accredited Professional, she sits on the board of the Green Building Institute and is an Adjunct professor at Montgomery College. She speaks frequently on sustainability topics and is the co-author of two books: DC Metro Area Green Career & Jobs Guide, and Sustainability 101: A Toolkit for Your Business. And she speaks frequently on sustainability, corporate social responsibility, and other “green” topics.
So it was a pleasure to sit down for a Q&A with my good friend Anca Novacovici, who is a bright light in the DC sustainability community.
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March 2013, Be Inkandescent magazine — In 2001, nine days after September 11, Marga Fripp immigrated to the US after a medical emergency with her newborn son, who suffered a brain stroke two days after he was born.
“My husband, a former Peace Corps Volunteer in Romania, and I had no plans to come to the United States, but this medical situation changed everything for us,” she explains. “We were told that our son might never speak, hear, see, or be able to walk. We came to America like many immigrants, with hope and faith that what we would find here would save our son’s life.”
How did this mother help her son — and the other women immigrants she met upon her arrival? Her story will impress and inspire you to be all you can be, too.
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March 2013, Be Inkandescent magazine — Innovation and creative thinking are valuable skills that are needed in today’s workforce. A facility for working with analogies gives children a structure for generating creative ideas, seeing complex relationships, and making unusual comparisons.
Analogies are a powerful thinking tool because they build on the brain’s natural inclination to draw connections and comparisons as we learn new material, deepen our insights, and apply creative thinking in our everyday lives. They not only stimulate the imagination, they also lead children to deeper understandings by connecting things that do not always appear connected.
There are three kinds of analogy that may be used to stretch and extend children’s thinking, and each one becomes more complex as it is applied.
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March 2013, Be Inkandescent magazine — Women are special. So special, in fact, that we have our very own medical discipline dedicated exclusively to our beautiful anatomy. Because women tend to carry a large portion of life’s responsibilities—at home and in our professional lives—the resulting stress can play havoc with our overall health.
The good news is that a bounty of natural remedies are available to help alleviate, if not eliminate, what ails us. Consider the following natural remedies to help calm everything from menstrual cramps to menopause and heart disease.
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March 2013, Be Inkandescent magazine — In March, we celebrate Women’s History Month, and this year’s theme is: “Women inspiring innovation through imagination.”
As a financial planner, I look back at the generations of women who throughout American history have drawn on their intelligence, imagination, and sense of wonder to make extraordinary contributions, and I am awed.
I’m also not surprised at how far we have come. Currently, women outnumber men in American colleges and universities. This reversal of the gender gap is a recent trend, noted in 2009, when 57 percent of bachelor degrees, 60 percent of master degrees, and 52 percent of doctoral degrees were awarded to women.
Fortunately for women, this increase in education translates into increased influence—and affluence.
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March 2013, Research magazine — Egan, Berger & Weiner founding partner Sheldon Weiner is featured in this month’s issue of Research magazine in an article entitled, “Stocks: A Hard Sell.”
This cover story of the publication, written by Ellen Uzelac, explains that client enthusiasm for equities has evaporated. How are advisors responding?
Sheldon Weiner said: “Stocks have been a hard sell, but they shouldn’t be. They run in cycles and they have for several hundred years. Back in 2002 or so, Warren Buffett was asked by a reporter, ‘Who in their right mind would put money in the stock market right now? His answer was ‘the millionaire of tomorrow.’ That hasn’t changed.”
Click here to read the entire article.
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February 22, 2013 — On the Feb. 22 episode of “Let’s Talk Live!,” financial planner Bryan Beatty talks about the complicated topic of inflation with reporter Sonya Gavankar.
An expert on the topic, Beatty clarified some of the more confusing details of what inflation is, and how it applies to a retirement plan.
Beatty shared the nitty-gritty with Gavankar, who asked:
- First, the concept of inflation is something that most people think they understand, but on deeper investigation may not necessarily. Can you explain how inflation works in a way that is easy to understand?
- What causes inflation?
- Is this a win-lose situation? Specifically, who wins when inflation is high, and who loses? Conversely, who wins and loses when inflation is low?
- Now, the million-dollar question: In a retirement plan, why is inflation expectation important?
Click here to watch the entire episode on Let’s Talk Live!.
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February 2013: Curry’s Auto melts your butter with our COOL winter savings. Our master auto artisans will keep your car running like the winter wind.
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Sean J. Coleman, J.D., Regional Director, Webster University “Hope Katz Gibbs is a powerful voice for all people, both men and women, on the value of inclusiveness in building relationships in today’s modern business world. She teaches inclusiveness, but more importantly she practices it. We hope to bring her back to Webster for many more speaking engagements.”
Gybrilla Blakes, PhD, Bolling Air Force Base “In our lively panel discussion on The Woman Manager, Hope Gibbs’ insight on what is paramount for women in today’s global workforce was instrumental in the success of our panel, and was well received by the audience of Webster University’s graduate students. We’ll look forward to bringing her back again for future speaking events.”
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February 2013, Be Inkandescent magazine — Our February 2013 Book of the Month is the moving memoir, “Heartbroken Open,”* by Kristine Carlson.
Written after the loss six years ago of her husband and business partner, Richard Carlson — who is known for his bestselling Don’t Sweat the Small Stuff series — the couple had a romantic marriage, two beautiful daughters, and all the comforts of the American Dream.
But on Dec. 13, 2006, on a typical flight to New York, a pulmonary embolism took Richard’s life.
“It catapulted me into heartbreak and uncertainty,” Carlson writes. “It was the end of life as I knew it, and the beginning of a journey through the depths of grief and mourning.”
We recently had the opportunity to talk with Carlson about “Heartbroken Open,” how she coped with the death of her husband, and how others can learn from her experience.
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February 2013, Be Inkandescent magazine — I spent most of my human resources/business career with Marriott International. Bill Marriott, at that time, was president and CEO. He used to start many speeches by saying, “Nepotism’s been very good to me!”
And he certainly made a good point. Following your father and mother in a family business can be a great career path.
However, hiring relatives can create less positive situations for managers.
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Internationally renowned artist Clarice Smith is described by critics as enigmatic and prolific. Her portraits, florals, landscapes, and still-lifes are painted with convincing reality.
For decades, collectors around the world have gobbled up her artwork after attending her numerous solo exhibitions throughout the United States, Europe, and Israel.
Artist Clarice Smith is also the wife of developer and philanthropist Robert H. Smith, whose father founded Charles E. Smith Co. in 1946. Robert and his brother-in-law, Robert P. Kogod, took over the company in 1967. Under their tutelage, it grew to become one of the largest commercial and residential landlords in the Washington, D.C., area, managing 24 million square feet of office space and more than 30,000 residential units.
The Smiths gave generously to the University of Maryland, College Park, which was Robert Smith’s alma mater. The Robert H. Smith School of Business at the University of Maryland, College Park, was named in his honor in 1998 to recognize his gift of $15 million, the largest gift the school had ever received. The Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center, completed in 2001, is named for his wife, Clarice.
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February 2013, Be Inkandescent magazine — Scott Nash founded MOM’s Organic Market in 1987, starting first in his mother’s garage. From the beginning, his mission was to create a retail chain that protects and restores the environment.
With 10 stores in the DC and Baltimore metropolitan region today, Nash prides himself on leading by example.
“In addition to educating our customers, we are proud that our competitors are changing their behavior based on our example,” he says. “Of course, profits are important—mostly because funding helps us keep our mission alive, and it helps us contribute to other causes that support our purpose. So, the more MOM’s stores there are, the more we can protect and restore the environment.”
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February 2013, Be Inkandescent magazine — I Wanna Iguana is the delightful story of a young boy’s efforts to convince his mother to let him have an iguana that his best friend is giving away.
Alex and his mother write back and forth to each other a series of humorous notes and drawings that capture the arguments he puts forth to persuade his mother to let him have an iguana for a pet, and her responses. The book can serve as an excellent introduction to the art of persuasion.
Persuasion is an important thinking skill, and, as Alex learns in this story, it is one that can be learned through practice and reflection.
Listen closely and you’ll hear persuasive appeals wherever you go!
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February 2013, Be Inkandescent magazine — Looking for new and unique ways to connect?
You aren’t alone. Modern couples have limited time for relaxing together, given their penchant for success in most areas of their lives.
Click inside for some easy, effective ways to maintain an organic connection.
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February 2013, Be Inkandescent magazine — I love power couples. When two strong-minded, confident people come to me for help with their financial planning, I know we’re going to end up creating a savvy approach to managing their money.
Not only do dynamic duos exude positive energy and confidence, the merits of each personality often compensate for their character flaws in each other.
That said, their strong-willed determination to be the best does not guarantee that power couples don’t experience power struggles or discord when it comes to money. Why is money such a hot-button issue for power couples?
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By Michael Egan, CFP®
CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNER™
Partner, Egan, Berger & Weiner, LLC
Many of our clients will end up relocating in retirement. Some of them will move locally and others will leave the state.
There are many important factors to consider before making a move.
Below are do’s and don’ts to help you decide what’s best for you:
What to Consider:
- Location (location, location). Proximity to family and friends is critical as you age and need more help with day-to-day activities. If you can’t or don’t want to live near family, at least choose a home near a major airport. That way, if family members do need to visit, they will be able to get to you easily—and back home.
- Proximity to good medical care. Also, a short drive or walk to a supermarket is one of the top things retirees say is important to them. A great website to determine the walkability of your potential neighborhood is www.walkscore.com. Getting “away from it all” may sound great, but it isn’t always the best idea, especially as we get older.
- Resale value. You never know when something is going to happen that will make you need to move again. Sometimes the death of a spouse or significant other triggers the move. Sometimes it is health issues. Sometimes it is the needs of other family members. But it happens more frequently than you may think. Make an unexpected move easier on yourself by choosing initial retirement housing that will sell quickly.
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Kristine Carlson is the author of the moving memoir, Heartbroken Open.
Written after the loss six years ago of her husband and business partner, Richard Carlson — who is known for his bestselling Don’t Sweat the Small Stuff series — the couple had a romantic marriage, two beautiful daughters, and all the comforts of the American Dream.
But on Dec. 13, 2006, on a typical flight to New York, a pulmonary embolism took Richard’s life.
“It catapulted me into heartbreak and uncertainty,” Carlson writes. “It was the end of life as I knew it, and the beginning of a journey through the depths of grief and mourning.”
We recently had the opportunity to talk with Carlson about “Heartbroken Open,” how she coped with the death of her husband, and how others can learn from her experience.
In this podcast interview we discuss:
- What happened the day Kristine learned that Richard had died.
- How she coped that first year.
- Why she wrote “Heart-broken Open,” and the four tenants that she hopes readers will learn from her experience.
- Whether she’s dating! And more …
Click here to listen to our podcast interview with Kristine Carlson.
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Inkandescent Public Relations is a full-service PR, marketing, publishing, and website design firm that helps entrepreneurs get more visibility.
Our mission: Since 2001, we have been promoting entrepreneurs, educators, futurists, thought leaders, authors, artists, artisans, chefs, restauranteurs, doctors, attorneys, financial planners, and other successful professionals who are ready to take their businesses to the next level. We help them come up with successful strategies to grow their businesses using PR, marketing, advertising, and publishing tools.
Our philosophy: Creating fireworks is the key to spreading the work, but unless you catch the embers, your moments in the limelight will just be a pretty memory. So, our goal is capture and promote the qualities and characteristics that make your company stand out from the competition.
Our approach: Our team follows our trademarked “8 Steps to PR Success,” from our Inkandescent Rulebook, PR Rules: The Playbook.
Are you ready to be unforgettable? Click inside for our Menu of Services.
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Futurist Yvette Salvatico is an experienced speaker, addressing large audiences on topics such as business policy, diversity, and foresight. “In the 21st Century world of complex ideas and practices, successful leaders, businesses, and entrepreneurs must learn to adapt, be resilient and flexible, and create transformational strategy,” she says.
In this episode of the Inkandescent Radio Show, Yvette shares insights into:
- How corporate leaders can better tap into their creativity.
- The future of talent and learning in the workplace.
- Her keynote speeches, and what she hopes audiences will take away.
- Her experience at Disney included creating and leading its “Workforce of the Future initiative.”
- How and why she became a futurist.
Click here to download our podcast interview with Yvette.
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JANUARY 7, 2013
Our radio show spotlight today is on: David Bruce Smith and Faye Moskowitz, creators of the George Washington University class, Jewish Literature Live
Our hot topic: What inspired Smith and Moskowitz to create a program for undergrads that brings famous Jewish authors to George Washington University’s campus? And what makes them, as authors, tick?
Your host: Hope Katz Gibbs, publisher of Be Inkandescent magazine, and founder & president of The Inkandescent Group
Click here to LISTEN to our podcast interview.
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WHAT IT IS: A flyer is a quick and easy way to tell customers about what you do, how it can help them, and how much your products or services cost so they can make an informed decision about whether or not they want to do business with you.
WHAT IT ISN’T: This ad isn’t a place for you to explain your entire business plan. It’s a quick and dirty way to move customers to action.
WHEN TO USE IT: If you are having a special, promoting a new product, or hosting an event—use a flyer to spread the word.
THE ROI: Flyers are affordable to print — whether you are creating an 8.5 × 11 sheet of printer paper, or smaller more sophisticated door hangers. As with most print jobs, the more you print, the cheaper the per page price. Flyers also don’t take a ton of time to create, so long as you are focused on promoting a single product or service, or an event.
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MoneyWatch, Jan. 4, 2013 — In today’s issue of CBS News’ MoneyWatch, our client Sharon Armstrong, an HR expert and co-author of The Essential HR Handbook, offers advice on the topic, “HR should know: 3 things to always share.”
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January 4, 2013 — Egan, Berger & Weiner founding partner Sheldon Weiner knows that since 2008, it has been tough for people to feel confident about their retirement savings. To make matters more complicated, many people are behind in their retirement planning. So what can you do?
In this episode of “Let’s Talk Live!,” Weiner explains:
- Why statistics show that it truly has gotten tougher to save for retirement.
- Why so many people are behind in their retirement planning.
- Tips to help us reach retirement with peace of mind.
Click here to view Weiner’s interview.
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January 2013, Be Inkandescent magazine — What color is your thinking? “Six Thinking Hats,” a book by Edward de Bono, provides a colorful structure to guide children as they discuss a topic or issue from six different perspectives.
There are six colored hats and each color represents a different type of thinking: The white hat is used for facts and evidence, the red hat elicits feelings or emotions that are associated with the topic, the yellow hat focuses on the positive aspects, and the purple hat focuses on the negative aspects.
The green hat is reserved for creative ideas, and the blue hat takes all ideas into consideration in order to formulate a plan. The colors provide an important visual that children learn to associate with each type of thinking.
Children may draw, color, and cut out the hats from paper, cut out different color hats from a magazine, collect hats of the different colors, or create the hats out of colored construction paper.
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January 2013, Be Inkandescent magazine — Got a hangover? Forget the Tylenol, and reach for a steaming cup of healthy, herbal tea. Why? Because tea is nature’s ancient remedy for soothing what ails you.
Here are four blends to ensure you are tip top in 2013. Chin up!
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January 2013: Engine oil is the lifeblood of your car engine, affecting its reliability and performance. Treat yourelf and your care to some TLC from Curry’s Auto Service. Come in today for a transfusion.
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By Yvette Montero Salvatico
Futurist, Principal
Kedge
The Current State: Good Intentions, Poor Results
Having spent the majority of my career as a finance professional for large, multinational firms, I know intimately the Herculean (and often fruitless) task of strategic and financial planning.
By the end of my 13-year tenure within Disney, for example, the various planning processes (annual, five-year, capital, etc.) continued year-round, overlapping and creating a cacophony of competing models, templates, and deliverables that, ultimately, had little to do with the future.
In fact, the only discernible mention of a true futures forecast came in the form of a footnote on the final page of the five-year plan that briefly highlighted potential “risks and opportunities” over the plan horizon.
None of the dozens of five-year plan reviews I participated in ever even acknowledged those risks and opportunities—I guess that’s what you get for being just a footnote.
Here’s the sad truth.
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Futurist Yvette Montero Salvatico is the former head of the Future Workforce Insights division at The Walt Disney Company.
There, she led the effort to establish an internal area of strategic foresight expertise, dedicated to identifying future workforce trends and assessing their potential impact on human capital strategies.
In 2011, she joined futurist Frank Spencer as a principal at Kedge, a foresight and futures, innovation, creativity, and strategic design consultancy.
Salvatico is an experienced speaker, addressing large audiences on topics such as business policy, diversity, and foresight. “In the 21st Century world of complex ideas and practices, successful leaders, businesses, and entrepreneurs must learn to adapt, be resilient and flexible, and create transformational strategy,” she says.
Don’t miss our Q&A with the futurist focused on helping corporate leaders tap into their creativity.
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January 2013, Be Inkandescent magazine — In The Big Book of HR, the tome that I co-wrote with my fellow HR expert Cornelia Gamlem, our goal is to provide a complete guide to selecting, engaging, and retaining the best talent; developing attractive and fair compensation packages; and resolving conflict and maintaining good communication.
As we start 2013, it seems appropriate to reflect on the ideas we share in the first part of the book, “Selecting and Assimilating New Employees.”
Whether you are an HR professional just starting out in your career, or a manager or business owner who needs to gather information, the book is intended for anyone who works with people and who wants to maximize the impact his or her employees have to ensure the success of the organization.
You can count on business getting more complicated—it doesn’t ever seem to go the other way.
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January 2013, Be Inkandescent magazine — Break out the bubbly—any bubbly—in every country, in any language.
Here comes a New Year’s resolution that will resonate with entrepreneurs near and far. We can collectively raise our glasses and toast! By a vote of 129 to 31, on December 7, the United Nations adopted a resolution on “Entrepreneurship for Development,” which will encourage all member states to increase support for entrepreneurial endeavors by reducing financial, policy, and regulatory barriers that inhibit the growth of small and mid-size businesses worldwide.
For entrepreneurs and social entrepreneurs everywhere, this is great news.
Okay. Maybe you’re scratching your head and thinking that this isn’t really a big deal to you and it really won’t affect your life at all. Well, you’re probably right. But step back for a moment and consider the larger picture.
It’s nice to be acknowledged for something most of you already know. Small and medium-sized businesses like the ones you run are getting the attention they—and you—deserve.
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By Hope Katz Gibbs, Author
Truly Amazing Women Who Are Changing the World
Jewish Literature Live is a popular class at the George Washington University, and the brainchild of world-renowned author Faye Moskowitz (pictured above)—and DC entrepreneur David Bruce Smith (pictured below), a GW alumni who is the author of 11 books and the former editor of Crystal City Magazine.
What inspired the two writers to create a class for Moskowitz’s students at GWU, where she teaches and is a former chairman of the English Department?
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January 2013, Be Inkandescent magazine — Since he was 32, politician Ken Ulman (shown right) has been an active political and community leader in Maryland’s green and sustainability efforts—and he has received high praise for making Howard County a great place to live.
During his term, Howard County has been recognized as one of the Best Places to Live in America by Money magazine, and Columbia-Ellicott City was recognized as the #8 Best Place to Live for its strong local economy, excellent public schools, thriving arts community, and enviable quality of life.
Dave Feldman reports.
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By Premal Shah
President
Kiva.org
The last five years of slow economic recovery have proven that the course of the economy affects each of us in profound ways.
It has the power to create or eliminate opportunities for jobs, homes, retirement, education, and even personal pride. Every person reading this has experienced the fear or reality of losing what it took years to create.
It is difficult to know how any one of us can make a difference in any of our nation’s most troubling problems. But what if the money stored in our wallets had a new purpose, even just for a short amount of time?
If each of us lent as little as $25 to be a part of “crowdfunding” a loan to a small business owner, the funding gap that stunts job growth and economic recovery would begin to be filled. If just one in three of our country’s smallest of small businesses could hire a single new employee, the United States would be at full employment, according to the Association for Enterprise Opportunity.
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January 2013, Be Inkandescent magazine — As you begin 2013, and shift your focus from a season of giving and sharing to thoughts of the new year, I encourage you to take some time to reflect on your accomplishments and lessons from 2012.
As an Asian American, I often think back to my childhood days when I studied the Chinese Zodiac. There are 12 creatures represented in the Chinese calendar, with a different animal celebrated each year.
2013 is the Year of the Snake, and in Eastern philosophy, snakes symbolize good fortune and intense power. In Chinese astrology, the snake is an enigmatic creature that not only represents danger and venom, but also symbolizes beauty and wisdom. Having a snake in the family home is a good omen because it means that your family will not starve.
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By Bryan Beatty, CFP®
Certified Financial Planner™
Partner, Egan, Berger & Weiner, LLC
Deciding when to retire may not be one decision, but a series of decisions and calculations.
For example, you’ll need to estimate not only your anticipated expenses, but also what sources of retirement income you’ll have and how long you’ll need your retirement savings to last.
You’ll need to take into account your life expectancy and health as well as when you want to start receiving Social Security or pension benefits, and when you’ll start to tap your retirement savings.
Each of these factors may affect the others as part of an overall retirement income plan.
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WEBSITE — Northern Virginia Regional Literacy Coordinating Committee
Click image for larger view Writing / Concept by Hope Katz Gibbs
Website design by Michael Gibbs
Website coding / database by Max Kukoy
About the Northern Virginia Regional Literacy Coordinating Committee
We are a coalition of adult education services in six Northern Virginia cities and counties: Alexandria, Arlington, Fairfax, Falls Church, Loudoun, and Prince William.
This website has been developed to make it easy for adult learners, adult education professionals, and other organizations to find the educational resources they need.
Search by city or county (at left) to find the resources available in your area. Each service is also outlined across the top navigation of the site:
- Adult English Language Learning (ESOL, ESL)
- Adult Basic Literacy
- Adult Basic Education and Skill Development
- GED/ Adult High School (Adult Secondary Education)
- Career and Vocational Education
We hope this website helps you find the right program for your needs.
December 2012: Come warm your toes and have a hot chocolate or coffee while you keep your car running in the cold weather with this HOT winter discount from Curry’s Auto Service.
Ad 1 in a 6-part ad series from Curry’s.
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By Andy Hines
Futurist and Author of “ConsumerShift”
Founder, Hinesight
Values refer to an individual’s views about what is most important in life that in turn guide decision-making and behavior. Values are the ultimate decision-making criteria—what an individual falls back on when making important life decisions.
And in America, values are changing in a consistent direction over time.
Understanding these changes will provide critical insight for understanding the future consumer landscape and designing products, services, and offerings that “fit.”
In my new book, ConsumerShift, I translate the values changes into seven emerging-need states, brought to life in the form of seven future personas.
The book then provides personal customization kits for those who want to tailor them to their specific needs. It will help you and your team make sense of rapidly changing consumer behavior—where they are coming from, where they are going, and what they are looking for.
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By Derek Woodgate
Founder and President
The Futures Lab
In the 16 years since I founded The Futures Lab, Inc., I have been frequently quoted as saying: “My role is not about knowing the future, but creating it.” I am sure I am not the first person to articulate this concept, but it has proved to be the guiding premise on which my practice, expertise, and development as a futurist have been based.
From Data to Imagination: Every futurist needs a flexible, tightly integrated, deep-layered, multi-stage, robust future studies process, which from the outset explores, structures, magnifies, and contextualizes data and insights. So we use a process that provides a loose framework in the early stages, in which to develop avenues of exploration, scan, hunt clues, recognize patterns—leading to what I call opportunity-hacking—in order to future-map disconnects into organizing platforms/future landscapes that provide the context from which to create the future.
However, throughout the process, and especially once these future knowledge bases and springboards are in place, the critical way of creating revolutionary rather than evolutionary futures is to apply progressive thinking techniques to the task. In recent years, the concept of relying on hunches or gut feeling is fast becoming a common practice.
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December 2013, Be Inkandescent magazine — Everyone has a viewpoint. Kids, adults, writers, politicians, and teachers, too.
Learning the role of viewpoint—and understanding that each person has a unique point of view—is one of the most important thinking skills that a child can acquire.
It is not only important for children to become comfortable sharing their own viewpoint, they must also be willing to listen to and learn from the viewpoints of others. They will also learn that their own viewpoint is stronger when there is evidence to support their thinking.
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December 2012, Inkandescent Radio — On the Inkandescent Radio Show, we give voice to entrepreneurs, and always ask: “What’s your story?”
That will be easy to answer in this episode, thanks to our guest is Sam Barry. He is the author of the humorously inspirational book, “Write That Book Already: The Tough Love You Need to Get Published Now,” which he co-wrote with his wife, author and literary provocateur Kathi Kamen Goldmark.
Barry also wrote, “How to Play the Harmonica: and Other Life Lessons,” and currently is a contributing editor at Zyzzyva, the West Coast’s premier literary magazine. For the last 12 years, he was a marketing manager for HarperOne, a division of HarperCollins.
If that’s not enough, Barry is equally creative on stage, and plays in and around San Francisco in the band Los Train Wreck. He also tours with the all-author rock band, The Rock Bottom Remainders, with whom he appeared on Good Morning America, and The Craig Ferguson Show. He has also been a regular performer on the national radio show West Coast Live.
A gifted music teacher, Barry has helped thousands of people discover the joy of making music on the harmonica and piano (not at the same time). In a previous life he was the co-founder of a nonprofit art gallery and performance space in San Francisco’s Mission District, and a Presbyterian minister in Omaha and Boston.
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December 2012, Be Inkandescent magazine — How did Lyndsey DePalma come up with concept for the House of Steep? “I wanted something for myself—a place to relax, and just be, for a while each day,” she explains. “I wast satisfied with any of the existing retail outlets.”
Armed with some entrepreneurial hard-wiring and a respect for natural healing, Lyndsey left her corporate career in human resources to bridge the gap.
Click inside to read our Q&A with Lyndsey, and click here to listen to our podcast interview on The Inkandescent Radio Show.
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December 2012, Be Inkandescent magazine — We live in a world where it is sometimes difficult to determine what the truth is, and what it is not.
Teaching our kids to be honest is a cardinal rule for many parents. Employers put a premium on honesty, too. Yet, we’ve just finished an election cycle where both sides were in the news for distorting the truth. And, of course, this carries over into society in general. Consider how honesty plays out in the workplace.
Here are three situations where lying may seem like it can help advance your career and will be easy to get away with starting with: Resumes Shouldn’t Lie. Here’s why.
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December 2012, Be Inkandescent magazine — Our mission at the Inkandescent Group is to promote, educate, and inspire entrepreneurs, so we are excited to shine a spotlight on Dave Feldman, the executive director of cutting-edge environmental nonprofit, Bethesda Green.
His organization is one of the projects started in 2008 by our December Entrepreneur of the Month, Seth Goldman. With other forward-thinking business leaders, Goldman sits on the board of directors to help oversee Bethesda Green’s mission: to make a positive difference for the environment by promoting a strong local economy that supports green business initiatives.
“We strive to be the local model for sustainable living,” notes Feldman. “Our purpose and mission at Bethesda Green is to bring business, government, and community together through programs and services to promote a healthy economy and sustainable living practices.”
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How can you get in front of reporters, and talk to them so they care about your story?
On the Dec. 1 episode of “The Resilient Brain,” the Blog Talk Radio show hosted Kathy Kitts, Inkandescent PR founder Hope Katz Gibbs participated in a strategy session to help the audience learn to think like a reporter, and get your company in the news.
Hope also discussed whether getting in the news is the best use of your PR energy and budget—and what it really takes to be a successful entrepreneur.
Click here to listen to the show.
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December 2012, Be Inkandescent magazine — In my November Wealth column, I discussed the importance of the four “E’s”: Education, Expertise, Experience, and Empathy when selecting a wealth manager.
I’d like to add an “H” to the list: Honesty, for it is mission-critical when it comes to choosing the right advisor to handle your finances.
First, let’s make a distinction: Truth and honesty are often used interchangeably, but there is a difference. While truth holds a universal or objective meaning, honesty conveys a more subjective feeling and depends on the integrity and intention of the speaker.
Like empathy, honesty is an attribute or virtue, while truth is considered the outcome of that attribute. This means not only disclosing the truth, but imparting the right impression. In business, it is possible to deliver the truth—but leave the wrong impression.
Regardless of the intent, this communication gaffe demonstrates a discrepancy between intent and actions.
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