by LivingROI | Jul 1, 2018 | Blog
Dear Friends, Tomorrow morning my daughter Marina returns from a three-week backpacking trip in the Sierra Nevada mountains, the same area I backpacked a few years ago. I miss her! My heart is with her up in those mountains, and my mind has been on the memory of my...
by LivingROI | Jun 24, 2018 | Blog
Dear Friends, In October of 2002, our client overpaid us $315K. It came at a crazy moment. We had been working for this client for a year, and we were growing quickly. When we started the project, in our glorious naivete, we asked to be paid in advance for our work,...
by LivingROI | Jun 17, 2018 | Blog
Dear Friends, Several of you asked to hear more about “Más Pelotas Que Nadie,” which I mentioned in my newsletter last week. So here it is, a tale of tenacity and T-shirts, with evergreen business and life lessons. In 1991, I moved from London to Madrid to start a...
by LivingROI | Jun 10, 2018 | Blog
Dear Friends, David Kaplan was fatally shot by a sniper in Sarajevo, Bosnia, on August 13, 1992. At 45 years old, David was a veteran TV news producer for ABC, and a former colleague. Ever since I shared my Honor Your Intuition blog a few weeks ago, David has been on...
by LivingROI | Jun 3, 2018 | Blog
Dear Friends, My daughter Marina graduated from high school yesterday. Setting aside all the excitement mingled with sadness, I want to share some thoughts about the collective party we threw for four graduates and their families and friends. My husband and I put on a...
