(photo of my sister Hawa, me (as a blonde) and my Mom, Marianne, in Abu Dhabi) My friend Tereza (who I’m going to refer to as Terezko from now on) wrote the loveliest tribute to her mom this mother’s day and it started me thinking about my own mom. I’m fortunate to have my Mom (and [...]
photo taken in my Galaxy Tab in East Baltimore and ‘prettified’ with EyeEm They call this increasingly popular middle-class ritual “Ghetto Tourism” and I was guilty of it a few weeks ago when I visited Baltimore for the amazing InSquared Conference. I was almost giddy about the idea of touring the poorest parts of East [...]
I’ve been consuming haul videos for a while now…they are an interesting phenomenon: incredibly popular accounts of a shopping spree done on video. Usually by a 20 something or a teen and quite often they cover a trip to the mall. My haul is a bit different. I definitely didn’t spend hours on my hair [...]
We were really happy to be the hosts of the premiere women’s event at SXSW Interactive this year: BeautyBarX Just to give you a little glimpse into what went down… So yes…it was a RESOUNDING success!! Even though it rained like crazy for the first two days, women were already lined up at 9am [...]
In the tale, The Little Red Hen finds a grain of wheat, and asks for help from the other farmyard animals to plant it. However, no animal will volunteer to help her. At each further stage (harvest, threshing, milling the wheat into flour, and baking the flour into bread), the hen again asks for help [...]
(photo at TEDxConcordia by EvaBlue) Just recently, a friend of mine asked in a group email about how to further her speaking career. Like me in 2006, she is getting asked to speak fairly frequently, but like me in 2006, she is feeling like it’s taking enough of her time and effort to start asking [...]
I’ve been attending SXSW Interactive since 2005. It’s amazing and I’ve watched it grow from impressive to “OMFG where are all these people coming from?!” Last year, there were nearly 20,000 registered geeks in attendance, but many estimated that the event was also subsidized by an almost equivalent number of people who came to enjoy the [...]
…into the future. Now that Buyosphere is funded, I’m writing a regular column on INC.com and the myriad of other things that I’ve committed to are going on, I find myself looking at the clock everyday thinking, “OMG, where did the day go?” and the calendar at the end of every week and wondering, “It’s not [...]
I can’t believe that 2011 is almost over. It seems like yesterday that I was writing the themeword post for this year…REAP. This year really seemed to fly by in a way I don’t recall other years flying by. Perhaps it is because I was so pre-occupied. Between being busier than I’ve ever been in [...]
Yes, investors say they ‘invest in people’, but they aren’t investing in people’s dreams. They invest in people they trust to build a business, sell that business, grow that business and, ultimately, make them a lot of money.
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