The #1 Problem With the Occupy Wall Street Movement (and Why the Tea Party & Arab Spring Succeeded)

I was a member of Toastmasters for 4-years. I became a Competent Toastmaster in under a year after completing the first 10 speech projects (and went on to obtain my Competent Leader certificate a year after that). One of the speech projects is called Get to the Point. The goal is to prepare a 5-7 minute speech that informs, entertains and has one specific point you're trying to convey. And this is the problem with the Occupy Wall Street movementĀ and other similar movements around the … [Read more...]

What Steve Jobs and I Have in Common (And It Has Nothing to Do With Technology)

Steve Jobs and I share something in common. We were both NOT raised by our biological fathers. Like Steve, I "accidentally" met my biological father when I was a teenager. My mother and one of her very close church friends told me that we were going on a trip. After driving for an hour, we walked into an autobody shop, met this really tall man in the office and the church friend told me... "Leesa, this is your father." I remember being cold and aloof about the encounter (blame that on my … [Read more...]