I was asked recently by an educator, how I went from being an educator and athletic coach into my current field of work. As I thought about my answer I realized that my transition was not something I had planned on or even envisioned (contrary to how it is “supposed” to work, as in [...]
We were going to spend some time at the home of a family member. While it would be good to see them, I wasn’t exactly looking forward to 72 hours of political indoctrination, commentary, a TV set that was always on and where only one “Fair and Balanced” TV channel was permitted to be [...]
In one of my previous lives I coached high school baseball. Nearly two decades. Actually, I lived baseball. I used to say that I was one of those people who worked in a school system so that I would be allowed to coach. My obsession (which is another story) with having good teams and doing [...]
My bride and I just celebrated our 23rd wedding anniversary. One of the remarkable things about that, at least to me, is that it feels better, safer, and more comfortable to be with her today than the day we were married (and it was pretty excellent then). I have to say that it [...]
I can say, I knew you when”, “Now that you’ve hit the big time….” were just two of the comments that a number of people who caught the recent piece that ABC’s 20-20 featured highlighting the work that we do. Want to know the truth?
My experience has been that media exposure such as this; local, [...]
High self-esteem is good, right? What possible good would a lack of confidence do for me? In the past few decades, much attention has been given to the value of high self-esteem. We try to raise our self-esteem through workshops, affirmations, school programs and outlawing the use of red ink in grading papers, cooperative games [...]
During an interview for the ABC “20/20” special, Juju Chang, the correspondent who narrated the segments, asked me if I thought the financial crisis that has touched each of us and the rest of the world would “change America”. She meant, would we save more? Would we do less risky things? Would we [...]
Earlier this month Brad and I met at ABC studios on Columbus Square in the middle of Manhattan for a late morning/early afternoon filming of follow-up interviews with ABC News’s Juju Chang for an upcoming story that will air on ABC News’s “20/20.” The purpose was to fill in some of the blanks from the [...]
We became interested in the psychology of money after I had a traumatic event. I lost half of my money in the Technology Bubble burst in 2000. It hurt. The impact of that event led me on a path of self-discovery, where I questioned how an intelligent and well-educated psychologist could make such an enormous [...]
I was recently reading my favorite magazine, “The Sun”. Something I read made me think, “What if we were already in heaven?” Right here. Right now. I know, I know, a pretty weird thought, but just let me talk about it for a minute. Allow me to think about [...]
