by Margie | Dec 29, 2011 | Live Passionately
Plenty of change lies ahead in 2012. For you. For me. For people around the globe. That you will experience changes, and need to face new challenges, is a given. Whether your experience of them is one of wonder or terror, enthusiasm or despair, is a choice. So when...
by Margie | Dec 21, 2011 | Build Resilience, Live Passionately, Work Courageously
Ask my kids and they will embarrassingly admit that I often burst into sporadic song. And one of my all time favorites is Peter Allen’s “I still call Australia home.” Well, next month, after ten years in the US, it will be again. Yes, I’m moving! Moving kids. Moving...
by Margie | Dec 12, 2011 | Build Resilience, Live Passionately, Speak Bravely, Work Courageously
Every time I turn on the TV at the moment I hear fighting about how best to get the US economy back on track. Needless to say, I do not have the answer to that problem. But what I’ve noticed more and more is how steadfast people are in their refusal to ask more...
by Margie | Nov 22, 2011 | Build Resilience, Live Passionately, Speak Bravely
Growing up in Australia, my only experience of Thanksgiving was through American television. Somehow it seemed a lot like our Christmas. . . except of course without Santa and warm sunshine. After a decade in the US, I have really come to love the Thanksgiving...
by Margie | Nov 20, 2011 | Speak Bravely, Work Courageously
There’s been a lot of focus in the media in recent weeks on both sexual harassment and sexual abuse, particularly surrounding the tragedy at Penn State. Both involve the interplay of sex and power, vulnerability and intimidation. Both are issues requiring courage....
by Margie | Nov 9, 2011 | Build Resilience, Live Passionately, Work Courageously
A friend of mine recently lost in her bid to be elected for public office. Last week an opportunity for me to contribute to a segment on a national talk show fell through. Last month I had another publisher ‘pass’ on the book I’m working on. The...
by Margie | Oct 23, 2011 | Live Passionately, Speak Bravely, Work Courageously
I ran into a friend last weekend. Let’s call her Suzie. Suzie shared with me she was very recently passed over for a promotion that she felt she had clearly been the most well placed to get. When she found out that it had gone to a guy with far less experience...
by Margie | Oct 17, 2011 | Live Passionately, Work Courageously
One evening last week a girlfriend dropped in for an impromptu visit and said she needed a glass of wine. Being the good friend I am I dutifully shared a bottle with her. Which was all fine until the next morning when I realized that I’d forgotten to set my...
by Margie | Oct 7, 2011 | Live Passionately
Ten years ago today I moved to America. I arrived with my husband Andrew, my young broad of children (aged 3, 2 and 8 weeks) and my mum, who had generously offered to help me that first month on the ground. It took 33 hours to fly from Melbourne (via Sydney,...
by Margie | Sep 27, 2011 | Build Resilience, Live Passionately
This last Sunday I attended the funeral of the father of my dear friend Ellie. It was a beautiful funeral. Very sad, but incredibly beautiful. During the funeral service numerous people got up to speak about the life of Seyed Ahmad Kalantar, a man I had only met once...
