by Margie | Jan 16, 2012 | Build Resilience, Live Passionately
Yesterday morning Al Jazeera TV network called me to do a live studio interview in their D.C. studio, via satellite from their Qatar headquarters. I jumped at it. Living in Washington D.C., and indeed America, has been packed with cool opportunities and new...
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 | Feb 24, 2011 | Build Resilience, Live Passionately, Speak Bravely
Two weeks ago I said yes to a morning at trapeze school. Naively as it turned out. It was absolutely terrifying! But I jumped anyway. Five times in all. And while I wouldn’t race back to do it again, I’m glad I did it. Because hanging upside down 23 feet...
by Margie | Jan 29, 2009 | Live Passionately, Work Courageously
Last week whilst talking with someone about the economy, the possibility of them being laid off and how they thought it was a good time to take a change in career direction came up. As we talked about what they needed to do to make it a successful transition in a...
by Margie | Jan 8, 2009 | Speak Bravely, Work Courageously
When I was 23 I spent 6 weeks backpacking on my own around the Middle East. Three in Egypt, one in Jordan and two in Jerusalem and the surrounding occupied territories of the West Bank. Being on my own made it that much more extraordinary because I found myself being...
