Growing up in Southern California, my family has experienced its fair share of floods and fires. My grandfather and great-grandfather first build their beach-side summer home in the 1920’s. During WWII this home burned down, and when my grandfather moved back in the 70’s to rebuild a retirement home, he did so with the intent…
I’ve had the pleasure of being in management roles ever since a young age. Thinking back, my first role in managing people was in the Boy Scouts. We were a small irreverent troop in a rural beach town in Southern California. When the time came to select a senior troop leader, I found my peers…
Some of my friends have some pretty cool jobs. Stuntwoman. Actor. Rocket Scientist. Entrepreneur. And there’s Dan. Dan is in charge of advance work for key members of the Democratic party visiting Los Angeles and Las Vegas. He travels with these Democratic VIPs, coordinating all of the important aspects of their trips such as where they…
It was a cold night at JFK and the terminal was eerily (yet understandably) quiet. Just a few weeks prior two planes had flown into the World Trade Center, and most people were avoiding air travel. The mood was somber, to say the least. I was “listed non-rev” on the last flight back to LA…