Tag: Pop Culture
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Red Hair Pride: Lessons from Jolene and Aging
For Kiss a Ginger Day, I can’t help but think about Jolene and about the years I spent wishing I looked like someone else. I was born with naturally auburn hair. Not fiery red, not strawberry blonde. Auburn, the kind that shifts with the light and refuses to be easily categorized. And for a long…
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The Power of Vision Boards: Seeing Clearly in Life
There are moments in life when clarity doesn’t arrive quietly.It comes after pulling over.After the fear passes.After the rain finally lets up. I still remember driving from Cleveland toward home on the Ohio Turnpike, caught in a dangerous storm that forced me into emergency parking along the freeway. Visibility was nearly gone. I couldn’t see…
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The Journey of Faith: Embracing Uncertainty
There is something deeply restorative about being alone in your car. No one is asking you to turn the radio down. No competing playlists. Just a stretch of road, a few thoughts, and a song that somehow knows exactly where you are in life. On my way to the doctor’s office this week, I found…
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Wisdom Wednesday: The Heart, the Hype, and the Hope of Advent
What Pink got right, what culture gets wrong, and what Jesus came to redeem It is interesting how inspiration for a post can strike from seemingly anywhere. Sometimes it is a verse, sometimes it is a headline, and sometimes it is a pop song from Pink. In her song “Try,” Pink sings,“Where there is desire,…
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Wednesday Wisdom: Pop Culture, Love, and the Truth About Marriage
Having to navigate the shattered shards of my parents’ marriage made me skeptical about love from the beginning. Their subsequent debacle of relationships left the kids as casualties, and I carried that distrust into adulthood. Later, working in VIP Services on the Las Vegas Strip, I saw another side of broken vows—men gleefully repeating the…
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Throwback Thursday: What Are Words For?
Last night, my husband played Words by Missing Persons, and it was a blast from the past. I honestly feel like I haven’t heard it in forever. But this time, instead of just bobbing my head to Dale Bozzio’s wild vocals and new wave synth, I actually listened to the lyrics. And it hit me—forty-plus…
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Narcissists in the Wild
“You’re special. Different. I see you.”—Joe Goldberg, YOU “They love the spotlight. They charm a room. They always come back until you figure them out.”—Every survivor of a narcissist, ever We’ve All Met Him. Sometimes he looks like a brooding bookstore owner with a tragic backstory (Joe Goldberg).Other times, he stands on the world stage…
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Fix Your Focus: Build Your Obsession Board
She didn’t need more ideas.She needed one obsession. One target. One room she could walk into with her mind already made up. Most people don’t fail because they’re not good enough. They fail because their focus is fractured. They chase trends, switch goals mid-month, scroll for “inspiration,” and wonder why nothing sticks. Joe Goalberg wouldn’t…
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Tuesday Tip: The Joe Goalberg Obsessive Strategy for Success – No Killing, Just Winning
Slow sales. A lack of clear goals. Maybe your brand feels like it’s going through an identity crisis, unsure of what it stands for or who it’s speaking to. Sound familiar? You’re not alone. In fact, these are challenges most small business owners and creators face at some point in their journey. But what if…
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