June 26, 2025 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Dare to Care-Conscious Communication, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
Liberty is at risk What is liberty? The condition of a free person; absence of restraint; permission to do and say. If we do not have the liberty to tell people, especially elected representatives, what they do not want to hear, do we have liberty? If we are policed...
June 24, 2025 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Dare to Care-Conscious Communication, Personal Development, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
Naming truth There is an art to removing extraneous words and naming the truth that lies beneath people’s actions, including ours. This is the meaning of the expression, ‘The Truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off.’ What is the truth, using the...
June 23, 2025 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Dare to Care-Conscious Communication
Speaking Absolutes Always. Never. Everyone. All. I hear a man stand on a public platform and claim that all of civilisation will be thankful for an egregious action taken in these last few days. All of civilisation. He does not speak for me. He has never spoken for...
June 17, 2025 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Dare to Care-Conscious Communication, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
Trust apocalypse The smallest element of trust needed in Universe is our word. Our trust in leadership, institutions and democracy is completely bankrupt. Does this give us permission to become untrustworthy, as if there is no point in being a stand for trust? Does...
June 13, 2025 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Dare to Care-Conscious Communication
Physical helplessness sold as innovation. Outsourcing our thinking, creativity, and actions to the digital invisible—the chatbot—comes at a cost few consider. Touch, experiences in nature, cooking food, building fires, fixing things – lost in the addiction to...
June 11, 2025 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Dare to Care-Conscious Communication
To change the future we need to change who we listen to It is the old adage. Same thinking, same result. Listen to the same people, more of the same. Change is incremental at best. We need transformation. I was listening to one of my favourite podcasts this week, and...