How did you get that unbelievable keynote/speaking slot/invitation? What can I do to get on the TED stage? How can I be a speaker, like you? Those were 3 questions …
Shhh … Don’t Tell My Boss
Being a "slash-career" person, i.e. writer / speaker / researcher / professor, can mean your "boss" is a tyrant-like type who always has a new demand of you, and never …
What are you Searching For?
What is your community? Is it your work? Perhaps the people who share your co-working space? Is it your family because they are where you feel most loved? Perhaps its …
Your Outer World Changes as Your Inner World Does
In recent weeks, we've been chatting with Ruthie Ackerman about how she finds her allies, her community. The first post discusses how once Ruthie claimed her passions as her own, …
Why Work Could Very Well Be Killing You
A comb, a high-heeled shoe, and football tickets. These can all be tools of "covering" or passing. But, in a way you wouldn't expect. In this informative talk: Christie Smith, …
The Only Norm is Onlyness
"There are people in this world who have the full rights of citizenship, in our communities, our countries and around the world. And then there are those of us who, …
Life Force
" There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all of …
Losing Some Friends as You Find New Ones (Part II of Finding Your Allies)
Last week, Ruthie Ackerman’s had a question that led her to find a new community. In Part II, why Finding Your Allies sometimes means Losing Your Friends … … all …
Turning Your Question Into Your Quest (Part I of Finding Your Allies)
Once you’ve “claimed your weird” as we’ve just discussed in our last series on How to Find Your Onlyness, it’s possible to feel all alone. The story of Ruth Ackerman …
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