You've got to see this! My brother Andy Goodman was invited to participate in a Rant performance in Los Angeles. He chose to talk about our mother and what her death meant to him. Hard to believe that he turned it into an hilarious 10-minute talk which I want to...
Last night was my Office Party with over 50 women business owners in attendance. The sun peeked out long enough for us to enjoy drinks and hors d'oeuvres on the patio. There had been some question about the party being held given the seemingly endless rain we'd...
I don't do well at buffets. Talk about leaving money on the table! Too many temptations, not enough appetite. When faced with all those opportunities--antipasto, salads, entrees, cheeses, soups, veggie platters, not to mention entire dessert stations, I contract. I...
I'm spending a few days attending the Kushi Institute Annual Macrobiotic Conference (my 4th) and learning a bunch of new things. Well, not actually learning them for the first time, but in a state of readiness and openness to try on a new behavior after hearing...
My son mentioned last week, when I invited him to jump in my pool during his visit to CT, that he hates to swim. How did I miss that fact? Back when he was a baby, there was a theory that if you threw an infant into a pool, its instincts would have it stroking the...
I was laughing out loud as I read Martha Beck's column in the August edition of O Magazine. In her article, Our Buddies, Our Selves, she hilariously describes the inner voices we all experience (whether we admit it or not). She's named them. There's Fang, who shows...
I pulled out my calendar as soon as my friend Pam mentioned her colleague's offering called Spa for the Soul WOMEN'S RETREAT with the tag line: Join Barbara Biziou for a transformative weekend of ritual, healing and the Divine Feminine. Sounded like just what the...
Into every woman business owner's life a little rain must fall. Most of us don't have the luxury of the office water cooler or an ally in a neighboring cubicle where a sympathetic nod or warm hug will relieve the immediate angst of a situation.We have to figure out...
I invited two of my clients to let their gremlins have full rein at the beginning of our group's call. They each had a minute to let loose, and they did a beautiful job. My purpose was to allow the negativity to have its head, and then excuse it from the premises. ...
A colleague of mine who'd studied journalism taught me a quote she'd learned in her school days. Their mantra was, "Notice what you notice." In fact, I call my bi-weekly newsletter The Noticer. This hit home for me yesterday in three quick observations. Yesterday I...
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=jYypepBCyb4] At lunch over the weekend, my friend Carla mentioned feeling quite upset about the whole Caylee Anthony story. I innocently and naively stated, "I don't know who that is." Carla looked...
I flew out to Los Angeles yesterday for a family celebration this weekend. Across the aisle from me on my JetBlue flight was a bit of commotion. A young couple had noticed some empty seats closer to the front of the plane, which they proceeded to sit down in and...
A strategy I learned quickly and well in my early stages of entrepreneurship was that I got to choose which 8 hours a day I work. (A snarky associate suggested it was more like which 20 hours she chose to work...) As an early riser, I often have more done by 9AM...
Q - What do getting a massage, reading about Newt Gingrich and pottery have in common? A - A seed for a blog post planted, watered by an article in the NY Times and then fertilized by an analogy for both. I received a wonderful massage yesterday afternoon from a...
On my way home from a look-see in NJ on Monday, I experienced a profound sense of joy. It was a combination of moments that added up to a burst of feeling in my body that I wanted to embrace and explore. Here are the elements that composed that exquisite awareness:...
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