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How A Podcast Helped A Student Find Her Way To My Class

One of the cardinal rules of effective content creation is to be consistent. While I know this as a marketer and I teach this as an Assistant Professor at NYU I don’t always practice it for myself. Which is why my blog, now my Substack does not publish every week and my podcast goes on periods of hiatus before coming back for […]

It’s Okay To Be Uncomfortable

No one wants to feel uncomfortable anymore. I get it. I am not particularly fond of feeling uncomfortable either. It’s an uneasy feeling, awkward, tense, anxiety-producing. It’s – well – uncomfortable. But that’s okay. We need to get comfortable with being uncomfortable. In fact, being uncomfortable can be a good thing. As a kid, I […]

A Fast Car, A Vivid Memory And No Picture To Prove It Happened

It’s been a week and I still can’t get the song out of my head. The lyrics are on replay whenever I’ve had a few moments to just be – whether it’s waiting on the platform for the subway or stepping out of the shower in the morning. Fast Car. Tracy Chapman’s distinctive voice. The kind of […]

I wrote a book. Now I have to sell it.

I wrote a book. There. I said it. I wrote a book. Even now that it’s published and out in the world it still feels surreal. It’s not the first time I wrote a book, so perhaps digesting my accomplishment should be easier but that is not what I am finding. Instead what keeps going through my […]

And so it begins…my first Substack

I have a habit. I am not sure exactly when I started it but if I had to guess it was sometime after I started teaching. When I am done explaining something, I will finish my statement with this question. Does this make sense? It doesn’t just happen when I’m teaching. I have caught myself doing […]

When You Need A Leader And There Is None To Be Found

Every time my mother says to me that she has never seen things as bad as they are now it tugs on my heart. My mother is 96. She was born into the Great Depression, lived through WWll, lost her mother when she was seventeen and one of her brothers when he was nineteen. She […]