September 2019
August 2019
- The Summer Semester is ending
- The Guns
- The Children Question
- We are all artists
- Revival of Towns
- Nordstrom Comes to NYC
- Success?
- 25 Years of E-commerce
- Medical Tourism
- The Money
- Where is the DNC’s Don Draper?
- Boards
July 2019
- The Times They Are A Changin’
- How much more of Trump can we take?
- The Demise of Dean and Deluca…and Barneys
- Immigration is essential
- Parenting
- Age?
- Sotheby’s goes private
- Urban migration
- Grocery Stores
- What will the Cannabis Industry look like in 10 years?
- Where is Media going?
- Happy 4th of July
- Ladies…make the BIG ask
June 2019
- Drinking and Drugs
- Reality of Angel Investing
- Traveling is a Gift
- Women over 50
- Ten Years of Brand Building
May 2019
- Success? Now what?
- WTF?
- Hope is not a Strategy
- Whitney Biennial and Cultural Leadership
- Lots of Signs out there
- Money Comes in Many Shapes and Sizes
- Funding Non-Profits Will Change
- Motherhood
- Fear
- Attitude Adjustment
- Core Values
- Child Care
April 2019
- Wills
- Privileged
- Leadership
- The Lehman Trilogy
- Inappropriate touching now but wasn’t it always inappropriate?
- Who Do You Want to Be In Bed With?
- Women are in the house
March 2019
- Evolving, LA to NYC.
- Recalling Bad Men
- Women, Women, Women
- The College Take Down
- Didn’t your parents tell you?
- Getting rid of Prejudices
- The Homeless Crisis
- Are there yet?
February 2019
- Shrinks and Sex
- What is each of our responsibility to the community?
- Phone Addictions
- Diversity Should be #1 for Good Reason
- Circular Economy
- Changes in Brooklyn
- Fashion Wakes Up
- Debt Funding
- Talent is Democratic
January 2019
- Building the Bridge in Medical Care
- Vaccinations
- MLK Day
- Nothing has to be the norm
- Family Dynamics
- What happened to Etiquette?
- Winter has begun
- Giving Back
- Juno, Lyft and Uber Drivers
- Life doesn’t have a playbook
- When Will the Marches Begin?
- Fixing or Evolving?
December 2018
- New Year’s Eve 2018
- Women Defined 2018
- Gone Skiing
- Shifting Winds
- What Will the Job Market look like in 5 years?
- The Moral Compass of Investing
- The Inflation of the Seed Round
- Paying Your Investors Back in the Restaurant World
- What is it about Power?
November 2018
- Harold Levy, RIP
- Why don’t we take care of our people?
- 30 Days of Holiday Kindness
- Financial Literacy
- Happy Thanksgiving
- The Long Tail of 23 and Me
- Don’t Pull Founders Around
- Kids and work
- Has Anything Changed in 25 Years?
- Will Corporate America be the Catalyst for Democracy?
- Bad Websites
October 2018
- Different Generations of Men?
- Sometimes all you need is a good cry
- Sears
- When did Angel investing become a commodity?
- Confidence Should Be Applauded
- Women Are No Longer Biting Their Tongue
- 15 Years A Blogger
September 2018
- Be Tough but Be Yourself
- Different times
- Question, breath, ponder and return
- Building
- Jail
- Saving the Planet
- To the trade??
- Is there a better way to run Government?
- Happy Labor Day
August 2018
- Summer Winds Down
- Yin/Yang
- Tuft and Needle
- Ring Around The Rosie
- TV, Magazines and more
- Next Generation of Philanthrophy
- Airport Security
- Never Compromise
- Poke Around First
- Industry Changes
- Morality
- It’s All About Community
July 2018
- 17 Real-Life Questions
- Change
- Making Documentation Difficult is tied to Voting
- RIP Jonathan Gold
- Artist Rights
- Fiscal Responsiblity
- Protest Numbers Matter
- #MeToo is silently changing the way women think
- Girl Scouts are thinking about the future
- You Are Only As Good As Your Name
- Random Acts of Kindness
- Fourth of July
- Pickers
June 2018
- Your name should not be your Company’s name
- MedMen in NYC
- Being Self-Aware
- A few days in London
- Paris is humming
- Why?
- The Rise of the Secondary Cities
- Community is key
- Dumb money?
- Long Tails
May 2018
- Experiences….coming to you soon
- #IamME
- Memorial Day
- And just like that…
- Detroit
- Where is the “Rock the Vote”
- QSBS (Qualified Small Business Stock)
- Old School vs New School
- The Podcast Generation
- Are you really “killing it”?
- Do Investors Do More Than Just Give Capital?
- Would the outcome have been different if I was a man?
April 2018
- There is No Time Like the Present
- The Valuation Circle
- Portfolia and Angel Capital Association
- Women Don’t Quit
- Retail and rents
- How Did We Get To Here?
- Skimming to where?
- Bread & Monkey
- Women United Should Not be Divided
March 2018
- Skiing through the bumps
- Skid Row
- Student Loans
- Don’t Get Over Your Skis
- Rules on the snow mountain
- Taking the heat is a managers job
- Data
- Discipline
- Who else will file for Bankruptcy in 2018?
- Social Media
- Being a Manager
- Are all cultures just corrupt?
- Small Business Loans
February 2018
- Lobbying
- Just Get Started
- Will This Time Be Different?
- Cupcake, Jigsaw Puzzles and the brain
- NRA
- What is the Future of Food?
- Soccer
- Getting men who are uncomfortable, comfortable
- What goes up, must go down
- the nuances of Marketing
- The Realities of Angel Investing
- New business ideas?
January 2018
- Connecting and Pitching
- Judge Rosemarie Aquilina
- The first few days of Los Angeles
- Women in Office Will Change Everything
- California Here I Come
- Sakagura and a few thoughts on restaurants
- What is happening to the dance?
- Design that Speaks to a Rising Ride, Rachel Berks, Otherwild, Podcast #49
- Paying for the Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Company names
- Creating company culture starts day one
- Sessions Cannabis Idiocy
- Ageism
- Where will we be without hard working laborers?
- If you don’t know what it means to be an angel investor, don’t be one
- Is 2018 the year that women are given the respect they deserve?
- Happy 2018…
December 2017
- How I spent 2017
- Transportation Costs
- How can restaurants survive?
- What does it take not to be tone deaf?
- Merry Happy Holidays…
- This is the future of Government….and thank god
- Where do you see your company in 5 years?
- Is this acceptable behavior from our President?
- All the Ladies are in the house….and they are here to stay
- Investors should all care about diversity
- You Get One Shot, One Opportunity
- You gotta be, cruel to be kind, in the right measure
November 2017
- Small businesses are the backbone of this country
- Women…it’s a movement
- Watching people grow up
- Acts of Kindness
- Is social media getting tired?
- Investments in social entrepreneurship should have returns as part of the thesis
- Upscale Restaurants
- First you give but suddenly you take away.
October 2017
- Bad Men
- Why didn’t all brands see it coming?
- Supreme is supreme
- Get your aura on
- Final thoughts on Asia
- Revenge of the Females
- Ellen Pao, Reset
- MOMA, Is Fashion Modern?
September 2017
- Going back in time and looking to the future
- The Long Road of Development
- Entrepreneurialism comes in many colors
- All women have a sexual harassment story
- It’s all about the people
- Data please
- Fear
- Survival
- A fork in the road?
- Opioid Addiction
- Dreamers
- Grocery just got interesting
- Urban Planning
- Summer’s over
August 2017
- Who are you?
- Arrange the pieces you have in front of you
- Siri and Alexa are spying on us
- Eater and the last decade of food
- The End of WeFestival
- The Holocaust
- Massive changes in retail
- Where is our leadership?
- Simple sayings that resonate
- When to call it Quits?
- What is the future of politics?
- Motherhood and Parenthood
- the Reality of the VC life
- Two nights in Martha’s Vineyard
- Morals vs Greed
July 2017
- Women and philanthrophy
- Contentment?
- Political Angst is Never-Ending
- Is it technology or just a new generation?
- Wages, work force and cost of goods
- Gentrification…the disconnect between residential and commercial
- Being hit on
- What is terrorism?
- Happy Independence Day
- Apologies, apologies, apologies
June 2017
- Fiscal Responsibility
- Old idea with a twist
- A month in Europe ends
- How Retail has Changed
- Profitable?
- The Gig Is Up
- Thirty Years
May 2017
- TedxNYIT
- Summer has begun
- Accelerators and Incubators..how to become self-sustaining
- the very LOUD minority
- Who Speaks for You?
- Happy Mothers Day
- Did you have a mentor?
- Funding Planned Parenthood, Our Monthly Match #istandwithPP
- Constantly fine-tuning
April 2017
- Living in the amplified world
- Social systems vs jail time
- Wasteland, the movie
- Can the people save the day?
- Passover and rituals
- When to get on the radar?
- The reality of building a business
- #EqualPayDay
March 2017
- Shifting mentally
- The Ecosystem of Expertise
- Walking the neighborhood in LA
- Fixing Government
- Traditions
- How do we mold gentrification into good for all?
- Clue
- the importance of supporting the art and other institutions
- It all starts at the top
- The importance of brands connecting with social good
- What is your natural gift?
- Doing diligence and using it for yourself
- The tech industry needs to be the leaders in closing the gender gap — not the leaders in “ “bro-culture”
- Uber and more
- We Should All Be Feminists
February 2017
- Refugees
- A day in the San Gabriel Valley
- The big disconnect
- Survivors
- Political Round Table
- Teaching values
January 2017
- RIP Mary Tyler Moore
- A $20,000 Match Offer On ACLU Donations Today
- Brenda Barnes, RIP
- Respect
- The blame game
- Brick and Mortar woes
- Present and Attention
- Wellness in France
- Let’s hope that 2017 is the year of the people
- What’s ripe for change?
December 2016
- new years eve
- moving into 2017
- A week on the slopes
- The places we have left behind
- Texas and abortion
- What is really going on in Government?
- Transportation in the future
- Being Prejuduced
- And so what is wrong with gentrification?
- Did you change your name when you got married?
- Wellness…
- Miami Basel Recap
November 2016
- We must all be feminists
- Making your team feel good
- I am still upset….so please explain to me
- So now what?
- How do you tell the children?
- the next four years
- Non-profit paralyzation
- Vote for the future
- Don’t trust a book by its cover
- Diversity flattens the playing field
- GMO’s
October 2016
- I am over male power
- Sweeping things under the carpet
- Not everyone has to scale
- My wife, my husband
- Will this election create a whole new generation of different politicians?
- Bullet Points to your own confidence
- Visiting Ricks Picks
- The 13th Amendment Ava DuVernay documentary
- the importance of rest
- Old school ways do not work anymore
- Anything can change
- Weed and Pharma
- A divided nation
September 2016
- Why now?
- Can there be some happiness in the daily news?
- Homeless
- What is luxury?
- It is just part of your DNA
- Women can we please stay in the public eye?
- It’s all in the approach
- Learn
- With age comes…
- The future got here fast
August 2016
- Sexual Harassment
- Speaking about race
- Got Grit?
- Owning your own finances
- Healthcare starts at the farm
- NYC Parks
- Why I don’t believe in blind hiring
- Technology is changing the back end of fashion
- Food on the eastern end of Long Island
- Boundaries
- Honesty is always the best policy
- Off the grid entrepreneurs
- It is all about voting for the future
- WeFestival theme this month is GROW