The World is Waiting for You.
 
What are You Waiting For?
 
From now until March 24th (My birthday), I’m inviting you to sign up to work with me in person and via Skype to actualize your goals this year on a pay-what-you-can basis.
YOU: Want to quit your job and work for yourself, or just get a better [...]

I am a hoarder. Of the information variety. But not like those people on those reality TV series where you can barely get into the apartment, have infestations, rotting food, and dead animals buried under piles of STUFF and are caving in floors and whatever else is clearly a mental illness that refuse to I [...]

When’s the last time you got physically intimate that also didn’t involve or result in a sexual experience?
Nonsexual physical contact is the most underused and underutilized tool for expressing intimacy, mindfulness, love, self-care, and self-love.
Massage has multiple benefits, some of which include:

eases muscle pain
increases joint flexibility
lessens anxiety and depression
improves circulation
enhances immunity by increasing lymph flow
releases [...]

The Food Culturist, who has a show on Heritage Radio Network was listening to this show the other day when she hit me up saying, she sounds just like you, the just-relax-and-eat-real-food you.
I took a listen, and decided that this would be my gift to you this Friday, three weeks into the new year, where [...]

Join Hay House for the information-packed I Can Do It! IGNITE conference as Louise Hay, Wayne Dyer, Cheryl Richardson, and Doreen Virtue share the stage with Hay House’s new cutting-edge authors, speakers, and documentary filmmakers.
The I Can Do It! IGNITE conference is a brand-new, fast-paced format that features 20-minute keynotes from trendsetting speakers who will IGNITE your passion with [...]

In my Shaolin Kung Fu class, my Sifu was always asking us, “Do You Know Who You Are?”
Usually, we were in the midst of some grueling circuit exercise, pushing our limits, and our threshold of pain.
He always answered the question for us: “Not as well as you think you do.”
He was impelling us to think [...]

Just a few months ago, my fridge was full to the brim of leafy greens, roots and eggs. At one point, I could barely keep up with my lofty culinary intentions and the fridge, as friend and colleague Olivia put it, became the place where vegetables went to die.
Today, I’m staring at an empty fridge [...]

A couple of weeks of overindulging on refined flour and lack of proper sleep have me nursing a mild sinus infection and giving me an excuse to stay in bed and watch old serials on Netflix. I’ve just finished season 3 of Torchwood and decided to see what the fuss of Doctor Who is about.
I’m [...]

Who owns the female body?
Is it the “straight size” model or the “plus size” model? 
Fashion magazines or clothing designers? 
Babies?  
Advertisers? 
Patriarchy? 
If “real” women have curves, then where does it leave the “skinny bitches”? 
How do you make decisions about what is acceptable when it comes to your weight? Your hair – on your head and on your [...]

As adults, we have a tendency to think of ourselves as more experienced, more worldly, and certainly, much wiser than our half-pint counterparts. But the world is changing rapidly, at a pace few adults have been able to keep up with, and we can no longer afford to be willfully resistant (and ignorant) to this [...]

New York State now boasts 180 winter farmers markets, no mean feat considering many our
vegetable growers are done for the year. And with Hurricane Irene and Tropical Lee devastating much of the Hudson Valley and Catskill regions this

summer, the presence of these markets is a bittersweet reminder of Mother Nature’s destroying principle as well as farmers’ strength, perseverance, [...]

It is far better to be free to govern, or misgovern, yourself than to be governed by anybody else.
- Kwame Nkrumah

I’m back from a weekend in Syracuse, NY where I attended the NYS Ag Society meeting. It was a long weekend of tours and debates and discussions about agriculture. I had a lot of fun, and as usual, met some really interesting people and came home with a ton of ideas for my other business.
Usually, [...]

A major part of this purging I’ve undergone this past month and a half was really not about getting rid of all this STUFF. Yes, this STUFF needed to GO. But this process really was about getting down to the accountability of how I got here (overwhelmed, stuck, unhappy) in the first place. I wasn’t [...]

My latest demo client is a biodynamic whole milk yogurt brand, so I’ve spent much of the past few weeks trying not to chuck yogurt at fatheads. The BIG trend in yogurt these days is Greek yogurt (or, Greek-style yogurt, considering that several brands are not making yogurt in Greece and are also using thickening [...]

Notice your breathing right now.
 Are you holding your breath?
Breathing is vital to our health and well-being, but most of us spend our days in shallow breathing or with our breath in suspension.  Conscious breathing, whether we do it on purpose in yoga, meditation, or just becoming aware of our breathing throughout the day, has the [...]

How much do you really need to live a happy, healthy, successful life?
For some people, brand-new, shiny, sparkly things are an external (albeit superficial) measure of success. Stuff makes them feel important and admired envied. Stuff lets everyone know they have arrived.
For others, surrounding themselves with lots of stuff keeps them from having to confront [...]

Nevermind the purported weight loss claims of going gluten-free, articles like these are why most people continue to be misinformed and confused when it comes to making better eating choices.
There are so many half truths here. If removing wheat from your diet puts you at risk for deficiencies of calcium, vitamin D, B vitamins, iron, [...]

Over the past fifty years, USAmericans have experienced a shift in the way they relate to food with disturbing consequences. The popular attitude seems to be,
“I don’t care where it comes from or how it’s made as long as I can recognize it, it smells good, it tastes good, and it’s cheap.”
Real, whole ingredients and [...]

Are people telling you…
“You can’t have that.”
“You can’t do that.”
“You’re not smart enough.”
“You’re not skinny enough.”
“You’re just not that funny.”
“You can’t afford that.”
“You’ll never make it.”
“You’re not pretty enough.”
“You need to just pick one thing and stick with it.”
“You have too many standards.”
“You have too many rules.”
“You’ll never do _____________.”
 
Are you telling yourself these things?
Is [...]

2011 was some year for me.
Not the most amazing year, I’ll admit, but it certainly was a year of success, growth, and actualization.
I did a few BIG things (Social Media Week, LEAD NY, Milwaukee), made a couple of DRAMATIC changes (decluttered my living space, ended my five-year relationship), and spent the last six weeks of [...]