If It Looks Like a Duck….
July 1, 2023The daily onslaught of email scams, fake phone calls and door to door cons are overwhelming. It is not just your car warranty any longer.
Do not let your guard down. Deception abounds.
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Calling All Practice Nightmares: Lessons from Chef Ramsay
October 11, 2018Kitchen Nightmares with Chef Ramsay is a favorite show. After initially watching it, I quickly realized there is a lot of business takeaways that business owners can learn from Chef Gordon Ramsay. If you have never watched the show, failing restaurants invite Gordon Ramsay into their businesses to determine what is wrong and then fix […]
6 Essential Takeaways After 21 Years In Business
October 2, 20181997 was a long time ago. The world is different in so many ways now and yet, not so vastly different in so many other ways. I am certainly different now than I was 21 years ago, but the lessons I have learned along the way have been essential to the growth of my business. […]
How One Bold Note Sparked Healing On A Post 9/11 Plane
September 10, 2018September 11. We can all touch the emotions of how we felt watching terrorist attacks unfold. Some of you may have lost loved ones, some may have taken a long time to feel “safe” again, and some may have experienced a crisis as a result. As someone who flies a lot, and whose airline of choice […]
Welcome to The Information Age
June 25, 2018Big Brother is Watching. Or at least, in the 70’s, we thought so. The illusion that the government had eyes and ears everywhere was at the forefront of our minds. Somehow, we believed, Big Brother (i.e. anyone in “authority,” such as government, law enforcement, etc.) would use a twig to rat out the tree. We […]
Another Data Breach
April 2, 20185 Million Credit and Debit Cards Are For Sale. The average internet consumer will not participate in this sale, but if you shop on the dark web, you could. This data breach, sponsored by Saks and Lord & Taylor customers, is a result of a mafia hacker group known as Joker’s Stash. The group was […]
Three Important End of Year Considerations
February 6, 2018With gala celebrations and everyone in a festive mood, it must be the end of the year! 2017 is coming to a close but before we bring on 2018, there are still a few things for us to consider for 2017. Gather your logins, passwords and security questions/answers. It happens more often than not that during […]
Verify and Validate
October 30, 2017We appear to be in a truth crisis. We see it on Facebook every day – someone has shared a story that simply is not true. Or a news headline from years ago, shared as if it just happened. I received a lime green postcard in my mail that stated they were trying to arrange a […]
Twenty Years!
October 3, 2017Pulling into the garage after a long weekend at a client’s practice, I still can’t believe that I love my career even more than I did when I started 20 years ago today. I moved home to care for my parents and step-grandmother, needing a flexible job that allowed me to schedule work around their […]
Equifax Breach Part Two – Updated Information
September 18, 2017After the Equifax post this past week, many of you had further questions. Allow me to address them now. Equifax’s Trusted ID program validation email took a few days to arrive in my Inbox. Be patient. Free to those who have been breached or not, I do believe you should take advantage of this offer regardless. Locking the credit […]