by Alex Perry | Mar 7, 2018 | Uncategorized
You know it. I know it. The guy sitting across from you, wearing a “My Name is Joe” sticker, staring blankly at you while he stirs a water-downed cocktail at your fancy networking event knows it. Your ho-hum, regular ole’ standard introduction of...
by Alex Perry | Feb 28, 2018 | Uncategorized
I see you, sitting there on your phone, computer or tablet thinking about how you want to share something. Something to positively impact someone else in a conversation, a blog, article or video. You want to “say something”… be edgy, inspirational,...
by Alex Perry | Feb 22, 2018 | Uncategorized
The text came as I was leaving a meeting today. It was from a friend, telling our group that she and her husband had suffered a tragic loss… again. My heart broke into a thousand pieces for her, for her husband. I texted her that I didn’t yet have words...
by Alex Perry | Feb 7, 2018 | Uncategorized
It was the mid-1980s. Smoking was normal, and latchkey kids were all the rage. I was in the sixth-grade and the youngest of four siblings with divorced parents. My mom was going to school, working during the day, and partying like a freshman at night. You can fill in...
by Alex Perry | Jan 31, 2018 | Uncategorized
His words hit me like a punch in the gut. A large, burly sort of guy walked up to me in the hall of a business center after I talk I’d given on storytelling and asked, politely, if he could give me some constructive criticism. “Of course!” I said. I...
