I stood in front of my closet trying to decide what to wear. I was supposed to be at the prison in a half hour, and if I didn’t get dressed soon, I’d be late. Flashbacks of movies like Shawshank Redemption ran through my head as I flipped through the hangers for the third time. [...]
Archive for October, 2011
My Time in San Quentin
Posted in Uncategorized on October 31, 2011 | 34 Comments »
Refilling When You’re Running on Empty
Posted in Uncategorized on October 17, 2011 | 39 Comments »
The other night I woke up at 2:30 a.m. unable to sleep. As I reflected on how depleted I felt — the result of too many early morning cross country flights to visit clients and family and a few intensive day-long strategy sessions with colleagues — I realized I’d been running a bit too hard [...]
The Girl Effect: Talking about a revolution
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Blogging, The Girl Effect on October 4, 2011 | 27 Comments »
Given the chance, 600 million adolescent girls in developing countries can unleash the world’s greatest untapped solution to poverty. This is the Girl Effect. If we can release girls living in poverty, they will do the rest. On this day honoring the power of enabling young women around the globe, I reflected on my own [...]
