Today marks 35 years on this bright blue ball we call Earth. In an indulgent act of true self care, I’m treating myself to the day off. My out of office says that I’ll respond to emails tomorrow when I am older, and potentially wiser too. Truth be told, some serious childhood medical issues meant that this (nor any) birthdays were guaranteed, so I make sure to treat each one as special. I don’t have enough words to express my gratitude for every single candle. Yet this birthday has had me in a pensive mood lately, especially as this business continues to grow and change. Whether...

If your business has grown primarily through word of mouth, you may be feeling like you’re sitting pretty. Clients will keep spreading the good word, and the cash will be flowing non-stop. Except when it’s not. The problem with growing exclusively through word of mouth is that if you’re not putting in any effort yourself, eventually that growth will stagnate, or at least ebb and flow. Networking events are an amazing way to connect with new people, and can help leave a lasting impression with those who might already know about your business. They’re relatively affordable...

We think about being in the wrong place at the wrong time as a stroke of bad luck. If an innocent bystander is harmed either in an accident, or during a crime, we shake our heads at something that was truly senseless. We tell ourselves that they were simply in the wrong place at the wrong time. We also think about being in the right place at the right time as a matter of luck. If something great happens to us that’s completely unexpected, we generally chop it up to good luck that we were there in that exact moment when that happened. Unless you believe that every outcome is a matter of...

What do you think of when you think of Gilbert Gottfried? Is it his voice of Iago, the wisecracking parrot in Aladdin? Is it his assortment of live action film and television roles, from Beverly Hills Cop II to the Problem Child movies? Or is it that iconic voice, which came through in everything from his celebrity roast appearances to his time as the nasal-voiced Aflac duck? The comic’s work is being remembered this week after his death on Tuesday, but for true Gilbert Gottfried fans, some of his best work happened on his podcast. The Gilbert Gottfried Amazing Colossal Podcast started...