I was watching a great movie the other day called Journey’s End. It’s about group of WW1 British soldiers on the eve of the first German attack in a year. They know they’re screwed, waiting like rats in muddy, wretched trenches, barely living off horse stew; ducking from snipers, anticipating six hundred artillery cannons raining…
By now most of my loyal readers have read my two books, A Thousand Tiny Failures and I Hope It’s Sunny Out. But it’s been four years … where’s the new book Tony? Huh? It’s coming. I’m working on it. And to prove it, here’s an excerpt. The story is about a young, sheltered Millennial…
Every client has the same problem… Uptalk If you want to know what uptalk sounds like, imagine this phrase coming from a 14 year old girl: “How are you? Like, you know what I mean? Like…totalleeeee!?” In coach speak we call this “seeking rapport tonality.” Yesterday I was watching a military doc about the first…
As an approach coach I often meet women with “wifey” qualities. Their charm and easy going attitudes are intoxicating. You just want to keep them around forever. And then I find out they’re married… “Of course. That’s why you’re so awesome.” I say. These women are almost always already engaged, or married young. In a culture…
A Reddit user posts in r/relationships that she is the “Mom” to her bf—seeking advice. I feel like that’s what my boyfriend is. Let me explain– I am basically a mom to my boyfriend. It seems like to ever have something accomplished I have to either do it by myself or constantly/nag/remind/pester my boyfriend into…