how to conduct a great interview: punctuations + emotion
Charlie Rose. Oprah. Barbara Walters. For Canadian props, I’m adding George Strombopoulous and Jian Gomeshi to the list. Deft, smooth and penetrating interviewers. Here’s a few reasons why they get the goods. 12 tips for getting a meaningful interview 1. Give an intro that makes your interviewee sound like a rock star. For these reasons:...
10 antidotes to assumptions + the dark beauty of internships
I sent out an email looking for a free intern. Holy smokers. Sound the alarms. This is the range of responses: My perception of your integrity has plummeted. Slave driver. Who do you think you are? Unsubscribed. What an unloving tone. Tacky. What a great opportunity. I was just thinking of offering my services for...
how to love the inevitable pain of getting focused. it hurts so good.
Being focused — on your goal, your task, your purpose — is a key ingredient of success. We know this. If focusing was easy, everyone would being doing it. This is where a lot of motivational ra-rah fails us: “Just focus. Zero in, prioritize, it’s easy when you …just focus.” True, things do get exponentially...
3 conversations on fear wrangling, entrepreneuring your life, and as always, love
I’m in the lull time between Christmas and New Year’s. That time when it’d be nice if we just all sat by the fire eating cookies, plumping up and getting sugar-stoned before Kris Carr’s 21 Day Cleanse — which I will be ON. Some really hot things will be happening here in 2012. Until then,...
a prayer for expectation addicts: show up. shine. let it go.
I have willed stuff into being. Lot’s of it. Will will willing willfulness. And if you dared to tell me (brave soul, you), in the midst of my willfulness, that I should let go of my expectations, (gasp!) I would have gone stone cold, or snortle-laughed you off, or pressed delete. Because I thought expectation...
how to accomplish great things quickly: when quick n’ dirty is totally genius
Sir Bob Geldolf wrote the lyrics to Do They Know It’s Christmas Time? in the back of the limo on his way to the recording studio. Between 11am and 7pm, with melody samples from Tears for Fears, and Boy George being flown in by Concord, Do They Know It’s Christmas Time? was in the can...
would you sell your sofa to get closer to your dream? a short story about doing whatever it takes.
I gave a sermon recently at Marie Forleo’s now-legendary annual event, Rich Happy & Hot LIVE. (Get on the “let me know” list for RHH Live 2013. You’ll thank me for it.) Russell Simmons took the stage after me. (Russell Simmons, the founder of Def Jam Records, not Richard Simmons of Sweatin’ to the Oldies.)...
the grand pep talk: decide to rise (refer to this when in doubt, or sick & tired.)
I’m all for mental health days. And gentleness. And I think the world should take the month of December off. And for the love of God, a 4 day work week would revolutionize the collective human spirit and thusly, healthcare. But this pep talk isn’t about taking it easy, this is about another form of...
getting to good ideas
Charlie Gilkey asked me how I get to good ideas. My answer: relentlessly search for the why behind the what “So why did you go bankrupt?” I asked my mentor-man. “Because I was a drunk. But really, because I was greedy. I equated power with speed. I should have done half as much, twice as...
go out of your way to be uncertain
I’ve been thinking about innovation more intensely lately. For a few reasons: My sermon at Rich, Happy & Hot, still a few tix left — is on courage + innovation. I’m co-creating a new program, “Your Big Beautiful Book Plan”, launching in November, and intend to innovate in this well-trodden niche. And my friend, Jonathan...
- She has the knowledge you need to succeed. What she has to say is what our spirits need to hear.
— Martha Beck | Steering By Starlight - ... ignites the mind in ways that could change your career and life.
— Scott Belsky | Making Ideas Happen - Danielle's passion leaps off the page, and reading a few chapters of this book will ignite you into action.
— Gretchen Rubin | The Happiness Project - ...the revolution you've been waiting for, it will shake-up and wake-up every aspect of your life.
— Kris Carr | Crazy Sexy Diet - ... the new, bad-ass Artist's Way.
— Linda Sivertsen | Generation Green - ... shows us how to do what the world tells us we can't: be unapologetic about our deepest desires.
— Gabrielle Bernstein | Spirit Junkie - The Fire Starter Sessions is a revelation. A virtual road map to more engaged state of being.
— Jonathan Fields | Uncertainty - Money, failure, power, appreciation — The Fire Starter Sessions doesn't leave anything out of the mix.
— Barbara Stanny | Overcoming Underearning - Danielle is one serious Fire Starter, and you'll be one too after reading this masterpiece.
— Chris Guillebeau | The Art of Non-Conformity
there’s more in the hot shop
including freebies
- how do you want it all to feel? sensuous goal refinement + emotional magnetizing
- in honour of the fact that life is short
- i renovated the temple! fresh site + new treats! for everyone!
- how to conduct a great interview: punctuations + emotion
- focus, failure, assumption antidotes + surprise success: january roundup
- the manifesto of encouragement
- what is your relationship to…life?
- how to love the inevitable pain of getting focused. it hurts so good.
- the “What I Trust List”. why you need one, and how to do it.
- 49 promo ideas. simple, grand + the tried n’ true.
