There was a time, long before I became the international travelling dick wizard, that I went many, many years without the company of a fine woman. I’d go to work in construction, surrounded by men, return to my house full of men, and go to sleep dreaming of women. I’d wake up thinking of women,…
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…