Whether you have no following or a celebrity following, the five principles below are important to keep in mind as you build your brand online. (And they’ll make the social media algorithms like you!)
Empathy and bubbles. Two buzzwords. The reason we’re so obsessed with these words is because we have a deficit of one and surplus of the other.
I set out on a Digital Detox and the opposite happened. Kind of. My number one takeaway was maybe it’s not how much time we’re spending using technology as much as where and how we are spending the time. My mind was blown with this online exercise.

Scott is the new kind of baller. He was once a night club promoter who sold selfishness and decadence to people while chasing models and doing drugs. Now, as the…

Kathryn Budig is an OG yogi, if ya know what I mean. She was teaching yoga before it was cool and trendy. She’s an incredible athlete and her list of…

Tony Hsieh. Zappos.com CEO. Pickle Lover. Visionary. Humble. Entrepreneur. Author. Tony sold his first company at age 26 for $265 million. Yet that wasn’t his biggest win to date. His…

Introducing the unknown option in the 2016 Presidential Election. You’ve likely never heard of Evan McMullin because he’s just recently entered the election scene. Evan, former CIA operative, decided to…

Everyone told Chris he was crazy when he quit his perfect gig at Google, leaving a pile of money behind. He put his first investment on a credit card and…

Maureen Sherry spent 12 years on Wall Street and became the youngest Managing Director at one of the biggest investment firms in the world. She navigated through the mortgage crisis and…

Andy is the co-founder and voice of the fast-growing mediation app, which I use daily, called Headspace. The former Buddhist monk who also has a degree in circus arts now has…

Dr. Jen Welter is the first female NFL coach. She didn’t ask permission or get an invite to be the first, she plowed her way through to making history. Literally….

Jon M. Chu is a filmmaker. You’ve likely seen some of his work on the big screen. He directed G.I. Joe Retaliation, Justin Bieber: Never Say Never, Step Up 2, Now You See Me 2 and many other blockbusters. In this…

Natalie Panek is a rocket scientist. (The real kind.) She’s also a pilot and an explorer who lives and breathes perseverance. She was rejected from a NASA program four times…

Joel Stein is a journalist known for his comedic and controversial style. He says (and writes) what many of us are thinking but would never say out loud. We discuss the role…

Emily Nolan found herself lying on an operating table in the middle of a life or death Why Not Now? moment. She had modeled at 16 different sizes and lived a…