The Dog’s Promise
We walk in the door and every single time, no matter if we’ve been gone all day or 6 minutes, it is CELEBRATION TIME!!! The dog can’t help but lose her mind, she is so excited to see us, jumping, licking, barking, spinning. Sometimes a little pee comes out. She can’t help it, the […]
Smoke On The Horizon
The monster peeks over the mountain’s peak. Smoke billowing from an other worldly place. We have seen fires before, but never one like this, bearing down, gut-wrenchingly close. Smoke fills our nostrils, burns our eyes. The Yellow Lake Fire spreads chaos and havoc. 33,000 acres, zero containment, it is the biggest forest fire this […]
One Nation Under God
November 3 & 4 – Received more messages, hurt, and comments in both support and against my writings and efforts toward the election. Friends lost, friends gained. Followers unsubscribed and canceled, new followers added by the thousands. November 5 – Watched election results unfolding all night. November 6 – Went to bed in the […]
Biggest Night of my Career
Last week’s post was a very popular one, about an event I did in my home state, where I received a very humbling/tepid response from an extremely quiet crowd. The LinkedIn crowd went bonkers over that newsletter. Must have struck a nerve. That was following an arena tour across America where I received praise, […]
The Silent Encourager Promise
I just came off stage following a very mediocre response to my performance…which is not something I’m used to. Today I tried a few pieces and customized portions the client requested that changed up my usual rhythm, but those are just excuses. Perhaps I just wasn’t good enough this time. Perhaps it was a […]
The Promise of America
Over the last 40 days I have traveled across America, performing in stadiums and arenas full of enthusiastic, interested, informed, invested and curious Americans, in a capacity I never thought I would get to in this lifetime. To see people come out in the thousands in every city to listen to the opinions of patriots, […]
Yearbook Photos Promise
Do you remember yearbook photo day? I sure don’t. This past week I have tried with all my might to recall those times, with little success, as all that lives on are the final product, which for me was never the photo I’d hoped it would turn out to be, and so I’ve hidden […]
Drawn to New Heights
A month ago I was leading a Speaker training & retreat with my colleague and master coach, Cheryl Knowlton. It was our final retreat and will always be a memory I’ll never forget to work with her and our students. I glanced over at the couch and was admiring the muscles bulging from my […]
Like a Rolling Stone
As an artist, there was always one magazine I wanted to get in someday, and one magazine only: Rolling Stone. You can imagine my astonishment when I was sent a link to their write up of my performance this past week from our Hershey, PA show, in an arena of some 10,000 people. It […]
The Promise to Spread Joy throughout the U.S.A.
The past 2 weeks have been the ultimate whirlwind to date in a 25 year career filled with incredible experiences. I have had the opportunity to perform for more than 100,000 people in that span, with dates being added as I go, flights changing on the fly, and have a week left of near […]