"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 [...]
Copyright: Photo 27079447 | Boy Full Question © Alphaspirit | Dreamstime.com This is what I see happening a lot: 1. Using Facebook live, an author starts announcing to her network her book. "Buy my book! It's on sale for $4.97. It's available at x bookstores!" 2. She waits. 3. A few minutes later, several "likes" on Facebook [...]
More and more venues like Barnes and Nobles and even libraries are asking for a marketing plan that shows how you will drive "customers" to their venues. Our local library had such a low turnout for a well-known local author event, that they are starting to evaluate authors on a case-by-case basis on whether they [...]
See that picture of me smiling? Notice the exhilaration on my face? I decided it was high time to start driving again after a five year hiatus. I live in a 99% walkable area. Why drive? But I had to get back behind the wheel again. Here's why: I needed to feel comfortable and [...]
Sooner or later, the topic of selling books was going to come up now that I've got an incentive to sell my own inventory for my soon-to-be released memoir Accidental Soldier: A Memoir of Service and Sacrifice in the Israel Defense Forces. Although selling books is purely a numbers game, books do not sell themselves. [...]
Yesterday was a big day for me as an author. NINE (yes, nine!) boxes of books were fork-lifted from a semi-trailer containing 278 books of my soon-to-be released memoir Accidental Soldier: A Memoir of Service and Sacrifice in the Israel Defense Forces. I felt a rush of emotions. With excitement and a thrill leading the [...]
Our upcoming trip for Israel is just around the corner, and naturally, I thought of my Israeli English teacher friends who still remember me and work at a small regional High School called Emek Hahula in the Upper Galilee, a place I have written about for my upcoming book Accidental Soldier: A Memoir of Service [...]
When I interview various business owners for the articles I feature over at Huffington Post, I always want to know what these businesses are currently doing that will help them be better known and stand out from the crowd. It doesn't matter if I'm working with a health organization or an author trying to figure [...]
"While vulnerability is the birthplace of many of the fulfilling experiences we long for -- love, belonging, joy, creativity, and trust, to name a few -- the process of regaining our emotional footing in the midst of struggle is where our courage is tested and our values forged." Dr. Brene Brown, Rising Strong Last Friday [...]
Almost a week ago, I sat on the sidewalk in front of our Jewish Community Center with my Toastmaster's speech in one hand, and my scraped hand on the sidewalk trying to comprehend what just happened. I had fallen and slipped on an icy sidewalk. I sat in the rain for 60 seconds, trying to [...]
When it comes to changing any parts of your life, many top notch leaders and entrepreneurs are suggesting that with a leap of faith comes with that unwarranted: "Just Do It Scared." Nike of course, started this phenomenon with its well-known logo and branding, "Just Do It" and then somewhere along the time, the [...]
By the time I was inducted in the Israel Defense Forces on February 12, 1991, I was already making space for "something new," -- learning to coexist with an Israel culture as an American, and yet, I was running on "something borrowed" which turned out to be stale girlhood energy from years past. I'm a [...]
I just came back from a two week vacation in glorious San Diego, Pacific Beach where old tide brings mammoth high seven feet waves and attracts newbie boogy boarders like myself. I was seriously burnt-out from teaching, writing and crowdfunding for my memoir Accidental Soldier: A Memoir of Service and Sacrifice in the Israel Defense [...]
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. [...]
A new direction with my site has been brewing for the past few weeks. A new me. Part of me wanted to align the content from my memoir and yet, I'm also wearing all these other hats: radio show host, book marketer for writers and entrepreneurs. So I had a strategy call with my writing [...]