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I entertain adolescents for a living…corporate speaking doesn’t phase me!

I have been working with kids since 1995. Most teachers (especially middle school), will tell you that effective lessons have a hook and engaging tales that relate the subject matter to them. The world today is based upon instant gratification (video games), instant knowledge (google), and filtering out facts from fiction. Using stories and humor from my life experience, I also love moderating panels and doing Q&A. I am able to dig deep and get people out of their shell and chatting. Let’s talk.

2025, HAIL AND FAREWELL

I always laugh when people write prophetic things around this time of year (mid to late December). Telling me all of the things that will happen when the calendar resets on the first of January. Right. Go ahead and try to predict the future, and even more hilarious: try to control it. Even your own.…

SHAMELESS BONUS POST

What is the saying? It takes a village to raise an idiot? One idiot can ruin the village? One idiot can raise a village? I am the idiot and ALL of you are the village. A few years ago, if you told me that I would appear live on stage without middle school band kids…

The THREAD

“Nothing is so privileged as thinking history belongs to the past” Excerpt FromEverything Is TuberculosisJohn Green If history took one minuscule wrong path from where you now read these words, you’re not here. I’m not here. Let your brain ruminate on that for a moment while you realize how ridiculously lucky all of us are…

YOU CAN’T MAKE THIS STUFF UP

“And we call ourselves the human race…” John F. Kennedy Statement to Secretary of State Dean Rusk just after they had been given a military briefing on every city that would be wiped out with a nuclear bomb if war should break out, 1961. Well. I’m not really comparing the weight of JFK’s words to…

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