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The year I turned 22 was the year I decided to trek across as many countries as I could cram into a short blitz after my third year of university. My Hollywood idol, Audrey Hepburn, said it best in the movie Sabrina, “Paris is always a good idea.” The train rolled into Paris after dark…

First, let’s talk about the symbol of the lotus flower. The growth of the lotus isn’t one of glamour and ease. The little plant starts out rooted in the mud and moves up through the sludge to break the surface. The lotus represents transformation and the ability to transcend obstacles. That’s the stuff a good…

Building, creating and sustaining networks of people you know and trust is an essential part of being in just about every constellation of professional enterprise. Often this aligns with a corporate hierarchy established with or without your influence—you know, those folks you need to keep in the loop. However, it can also be those people…

So what happens when you’re hit by a black swan, an unexpected event that you just didn’t see coming? How do we feel when faced with an unknown-unknown? Nothing can seem worse than the chaotic scrambling of an organization gone wild when the big “we had no idea” starts to echo through the boardroom. A…

Roasted pumpkin soup? July 1, 2022, and a happy Canada Day from beautiful British Columbia! Today is the kind of day for eating big, crunchy salads and sipping lavender iced tea with friends on a sunny outdoor patio. So why are we talking about soup? Isn’t soup reserved for those cold, fall evenings when you…