May 16, 2025 | Stress Management
The adventure was supposed to begin smoothly on May 6. Fly to Boston, grab dinner at Legal Sea Foods during our layover, then head to Amsterdam for a week of keynotes and vacation. But as Mike Tyson once said, “Everyone has a plan until they get punched in the mouth.”...
May 5, 2025 | Stress Management
This post is an excerpt from my upcoming book, Fry Your Chickens—coming May 2025. In August of 1999, I turned on the TV in a Stamford, Connecticut Marriott and stumbled onto a new game show: Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? One episode in and I was hooked. “This is...
Apr 18, 2025 | Stress Management
I retired from my corporate job on March 31, 2024. The chickens said: “You won’t have anything to do. You need to stay put in your comfortable job.” As always, the chickens were wrong. Here’s what actually happened in my first year of “retirement”: I gave...
Mar 28, 2025 | Stress Management
TL;DR: I used AI to tighten a 7-minute story into a 5-minute speech—without cutting a single laugh—and won a major storytelling contest. AI didn’t write it, but it helped me rehearse, refine the message, and stick the landing. A few weeks ago, I entered the NSA Ohio...
Mar 21, 2025 | Stress Management
The Story: Why the Book Almost Didn’t Happen Ever had a project you really wanted to finish, but life (and your inner chickens) kept getting in the way? That’s exactly what happened with Fry Your Chickens! This book nearly didn’t get written. Not because...
Feb 28, 2025 | Stress Management
📖 The Wild Roller Coaster Ride A few years ago, I promised my son Joe that I’d ride a roller coaster with him. The year before, he wasn’t tall enough to ride the big coasters at Cedar Point, an amusement park in northern Ohio. I figured I was safe—a year was plenty of...
