The return of "The Dress." Is it gold or is it blue?  Yanny or Laurel? What do you hear? Comment below. This reminds me of the article I wrote about about why #thedress went viral three years ago. #laurel #audiooptyical …see more

After leading numerous classes on personal branding, publishing over 70 long & short form posts, and being recognized the Top Voice in marketing, I am incredibly proud to hit the 100,000 followers milestone! It's humbling to know that my ideas are being shared at such scale to a wide and passionate community. Huge thanks to the supportive LinkedIn community who have tuned in to all of my updates about books, New Years themes, and marketing news throughout these past years! Cheers for another 100,000 together! �� …see more

Me : I feel like the media has totally distorted perspective and there is a huge misplaced amount of fear and anxiety out there. I think we’ve been driven to become hysterical and combative and we need to be hopeful and build bridges. Listening to Stoics, looking at the data, all provide comfort. People commenting on my feed : How dare you , you absolute $&@!?@& , this is a pandemic like no other, millions of people are dying, the virus is spreading everywhere, we are on the edge of the collapse of the world. Morgues are full, hospitals at the brim, and our future will only be worse- just look at the charts presented in the media. Just look at this article about a person in hospital. Look at this story about how this is the worst thing imaginable. And they seem unrelenting nor to see my point …see more

January 20, 2021 has been a day of reflection, release and even a bit of joy as I observed the Inauguration ceremony for President Joseph R. Biden and Vice President Kamala D. Harris. There’s so much to share, but a highlight of the day came from America’s National Youth Poet Laureate Amanda Gorman. Her brilliant poem, “The Hill We Climb,” inspired me to recommit to my own goals and to helping heal and preserve the soul of this great nation. That is a hill we must climb—together. #Inauguration2021 #TheHillWeClimb #AmericanDemocracy #poetry #poets …see more

People are spending big bucks online. Mobile app spend is forecasted to grow to be over $150 billion by 2022. This region is leading the charge. Download the free Q2 Internet and E-commerce report.

Only when you are willing to go the extra mile, you achieve something extraordinary. Breaking the norms, these Kung Fu nuns of Nepal say practising martial arts paves the way for physical fitness as well as mental enhancement, which they further use to help women and the disadvantaged groups. For them, putting compassion into action is their true religion. #WeekendMusings #fitness …see more

Which social media platform should YOU focus on? It is simply unrealistic to be everywhere at once in an "authentic" and "organic" way unless you have a cloning machine in which case I could use a body double/stunt woman so please let me borrow it 😜 So the real question is, which pools are your ideal clients swimming in? 💧Facebook Falls 🏞Pinterest Pond 🏝Instagram Island 🛤Twitter Trail 🏊‍♀️LinkedIn Lagoon Once you figure out your EXACT target audience, you'll be able to understand which social platform(s) meet your target demographics that align with your buyer persona. Have you built Buyer Personas?! If not, build them NOW, including: ⚡Demographics / Background 🔥 Challenges / Solutions ❤Identifiers / Goals In this video, you'll discover why I chose to swim with my colleagues and ideal clients in LinkedIn Lagoon as well as some of the results I experienced with a targeted brand that continues to evolve! I'll also include a warning in regards to automation tools 😬 What's your favorite social media platform in expanding brand awareness and reaching your goals? What has been your biggest challenge in building a personal brand? Find the article with past TIPS in this 2020 series below! #SocialMedia #Sales #DigitalMarketing …see more

It’s the first time today — at 5:30 pm — that the sun has broken through the ash-filled sky. And we are quite a distance from the fires.

Our pup is so sweet. And she has taken away any enthusiasm I had for getting off the sofa ... entirely redirecting my energies to petting her. #dogs #doglovers …see more

Adding this to my file of previously-unlikely/unthinkable that has become reality: On a sunny July 4th weekend, Laguna Beach's Main Beach is completely empty except for life guards (whose job is to keep people off the beach) and lots of birds enjoying their near-monopoly position. #California #LagunaBeach #covid__19 #covid19 …see more

This article, written by Isabelle Roughol light years ago in LinkedIn time, still captures the conundrum at the heart of the whole "personal branding" craze. If anyone can articulate it better than Isabelle has here, please let me know. "The only way to write something worth reading, is to live things worth writing" -- Isabelle Roughol …see more

I'm looking for a (paid)speaker for an event on the future of leadership and to provoke a group of people to question and learn what leadership means from now on. ( EDITED- I AM NOW NO LONGER LOOKING, PLEASE STOP EMAILING ME, but don't want to delete this due to it being a useful trail for some) I'm going to be harsh and miserable about this: I don't want anyone recycling the same stuff from the 1970's but jazzed out to seem contemporary. You need to speak to. What does leadership in 2025 look like? If people have access to the world's knowledge on the internet, if curiosity makes training redundant, if companies need to create cultures of risk takers, attract the "best" talent, harness the power of the entrepreneurial types, keep people challenged and rewarded and growing then what does leadership become? If we need to thrive in volatile, uncertain, radical times, if we need people to continually "self disrupt" but in a progressive way, what culture do we need to build and how? If you can, or you know someone that can whip up an audience into a frenzy on this, please contact me using the details in my profile. By all means comment below, but my first impression will be that of someone who can't read clear instructions. …see more

We don't talk about privacy enough generally. IMHO it's weird when we've a generation of people who share their most intimate thoughts/images online, crave more followers and to be shared & then say "What, where's my privacy?". We'd be better off finding ways to get trust, opt in, transparency and use this to create more helpful, relevant advertising. Not avoid hard conversations.

Infusion of fresh capital, handsome growth in deposits and focus on recovery, along with the tax advantages that typically a loss-making entity enjoys, should bring Yes Bank back on the growth path in the next financial year beginning April 2021, #economy #indianbanking #interestrates #india #financialstability #growth #banks #finance #NPAs #financialservices #payments #fintech …see more

Congratulations IRMA. The students have organised quite an interesting event. Some the speakers are brilliant.

Join me live on 1/21, 11:00 AM EST, with @Connor O’Brien, CEO of O'Shares ETFs and Cinthia Murphy, Managing Editor at @ETF.com, Policies Impacting Stocks and Tech in 2021. Here's the link to the event! bit.ly/3iwBxQB

You're probably familiar with the parable of the three bricklayers, which goes something like this: Once upon a time, a traveler came upon three bricklayers. When asked by the traveler, "What are you doing?" the first bricklayer replied, "I'm laying bricks." Asked the same question, the second bricklayer answered, "I'm putting up a wall." The third bricklayer considered the query and responded with pride in his voice, "I'm building a cathedral." This story underscores an element crucial for your career growth: perspective. Your perspective is the lens by which you view yourself, your career, and the world. It affects the story you tell yourself and the story you tell others. So, what are YOU doing? #leadership #career #perspective #bestadvice #positivity #mindset …see more

I'm so glad someone finally curated this database! This is a collection of FDA approved medical smartphone applications. If you think they have missed any, please let them know so we can further improve the database. https://lnkd.in/g5yAV3Y #technology #socialmedia #bigdata #health #digitalhealth #fda …see more

‪Here comes today US economic data. They follow the (slightly) improving data across Europe per this morning’s PMI (Chart from Bloomberg below).

There is an expression “a computer should never ask a question that it should reasonably be able to answer itself” and I think of it often. We are supposed to live in the age of big data, and personalization , yet every address form still demands I enter the Zipcode then State, then country. Airlines now email you before flying, telling you to simply “ check your travel requirements before flying”. You know where I’m from, and where I’m flying to, why don’t you tell me ? We should live in an age with frictionlessness everywhere, with delightful experiences that envelope you with moments on wonder. Yet we’ve made little progress. Would love to see people working with more data, more permission, more imagination and ambition to make things with a bit of magic. …see more