vulnerability

Are You Using Passion and Curiosity to Build an Author Platform and Why Should You Care?

November 17th, 2016|author platform, authorship, blogging, branding, content building, content marketing, courage, curiosity, Podcast, social media, target audience, Uncategorized, vulnerability|

"Creativity, decisiveness, passion, honesty, sincerity, love. These are the ultimate human resources and when you engage these resources, you can get any other resource on earth." -Tony Robbins Let me let you in on an insight about passion and curiosity I didn't quite understand 10 years ago when I first started blogging: I didn't think [...]

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The Courage to Take Accidental Soldier on a Book Tour in Israel!

August 20th, 2016|courage, memoir writing, new memoir, promotion, speaking, success, target audience, the heroine's journey, transformation, transformational author experience, travel, vulnerability, writing as inspiration|

Now that I'm back on US soil, I feel compelled to share a report of the She Writes Press Israel edition tour I did for Accidental Soldier: A Memoir of Service and Sacrifice in the Israel Defense Forces.  General thoughts and impressions: To be at my home country where I did my voluntary service in [...]

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How The Courage to Send My Son to Sleepaway Camp Changed My Life

June 16th, 2016|courage, defining moments, faith, joy, mindset, new memoir, pain stories, reflective thinking, storytelling, success, the heroine's journey, transformation, vulnerability, writing|

They say that you develop courage when you're thrown into new situations and for the parents among us, our resilience is constantly tested. Especially when we're sending our kids off to summer camp. I've always been a worrier. And a catastrophizer. If you've gotten to know me from my memoir Accidental Soldier: A Memoir of [...]

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The Courage to Become an Author

October 12th, 2015|courage, marketing, mindset, vulnerability, writing|

Yesterday, I attended a wonderful writing conference at Chatham University here in Pittsburgh called Connections and Conversations. When I attended the conference last year, I was a writer trying to figure out the gist of my memoir Accidental Soldier. Now that my memoir is scheduled to be published in June 2016, I am now officially, [...]

The ONE Lesson of Courage I Learned Serving in the Israel Defense Forces

September 15th, 2015|new memoir, pain stories, the heroine's journey, transformation, vulnerability|

Each day as I build my business, I'm constantly making decisions that take me out of my comfort zone. You learn things as you go in less-than-perfect conditions. You feel inadequate, afraid, insecure. There's no guarantee you'll succeed and that can feel scary. Courage is a mindset that when nurtured earlier in life, allows you [...]

The First 3 Courage Scenes that Didn’t Make It Into Accidental Soldier

August 4th, 2015|memoir writing, new memoir, Pubslush, storytelling, the heroine's journey, Uncategorized, vulnerability|

This coming of age story of transformation and personal growth is uniquely told from a female immigrant serving in the Israel Defense Forces. This post focuses on all the juicy bits - the scenes of courage that aren't in the memoir, from the scary to the unexpected. 1. Learning about mines on the Israeli-Syrian border. [...]

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The Power of One Woman’s Quest: Everything I Ever Learned I Got from Serving in the Israel Defense Forces

November 14th, 2014|authenticity, Classroom, defining moments, faith, memoir writing, new books, new memoir, pain stories, the heroine's journey, transformation, vulnerability, writing|

In 1989, I was a sophomore at Suny at Albany. While my peers were declaring their majors, I felt I was wasting my time, which made me feel there was something wrong with me. One night, I had banged my head against the wall of my room crying. I've got to get out of here. [...]