Everything rides on this—that’s a common quote heard about the outcome of the November election. The idea is that what happens in a few short weeks will not only dictate the next two or four years but potentially the next twenty or more. Not agreeing or disagreeing with that point of view, I prefer to […]

THIS STORYTELLING EXPERT SHARES HOW TO TRULY CONNECT WITH PROSPECTS. I FELL IN LOVE with stories and storytelling when I was 12 years old on a road trip with my family. We were in the minivan. Traveling north down rural Minnesota roads on the way to our small lake cabin for the weekend, my younger […]

THE PANDEMIC HAS A LOT TO TEACH THE INDUSTRY, BUT ONLY IF COMPANY LEADERS ARE WILLING TO LISTEN.   LIFE LOOKS a lot different today than it did when the calendar flipped to reveal the first day of 2020. It feels nostalgic now to look back on days when masks were reserved for medical dramas […]

ON JULY 15, 2020, Katherine Chiglinsky splashed the news on Bloomberg; Thirty- One Gifts, founded by Cindy and Scott Monroe in 2003, a direct selling company, now had a new partner. Kanbrick, the new investment firm founded by Tracy Britt Cool and Brian Humphrey, had taken a stake in Thirty-One Gifts. Kanbrick, recently founded in […]

This year has landed us all amid events larger than any of us as individuals, community members, and businesspeople might have imagined, not the least of which is the galvanized awareness of inclusive diversity and equity issues across the country. Years ago, thoughtful industry leaders established the DSA Diversity and Empowerment Committee as a permanent […]

Young Living COO Jared Turner isn’t going back to the way things were. It was 2 p.m. on a Friday, and Jared Turner was judging his employees. Flanked by his company’s head of finance and its chief legal counselor, the president and COO wandered amongst the cubicles at Young Living’s headquarters, taking note of which […]