Newsletter
Every Friday, I send a short email (Friday Five) with five things worth your time — from books and business to habits, articles, music, and ideas that stick.
You’ll get:
- One song I’m spinning
- One quote or idea that stuck with me
- One article I’m thinking about
- One book I read or revisited
- One podcast from the week
It’s simple, free, and always timeless.
Lastest Newsletters
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Friday Five – Eyes on the horizon, Find something you are passionate about, The word “no”
Music of the Week Sherry Finzer is a classical flutist who has expanded into the genres that include Latin Jazz, Flamenco, Pop, and World Music. Finzer oversees Heart Dance Records – a woman-owned/run label consisting of instrumental artists. She specializes in the low flutes – alto, bass, contrabass, and native flutes. I found Finzer during…
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March Reading List: 4 Best Books I Read in March
March may have been the month with the most books that I stopped reading. I put down quite a few books that did not make my March reading list. For whatever reason, a majority of the books I started reading never resonated with me. What I ended up with in my March reading list was…
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Friday Five – Thinking and reading, The present hour, Learn from experience
Music of the Week Trombone Shorty, aka Troy Andrews, is a trombone player and producer from New Orleans. Andrews also plays drums, organ, and tuba. Andrews has toured with his band, Trombone Shorty & Orleans Avenue, since 2009. Whenever I’m in the mood for upbeat jazz, Andrew’s music comes to the rescue. Some of my…
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Friday Five – A true friend, The right giant, Reputation you deserve
Music of the Week The Soul Rebels are an eight-piece brass band out of New Orleans fusing soul, jazz, funk, hip-hop, rock, and pop. The band consists of Lumar LeBlanc and Derrick Moss (percussionists), Julian Gosin and Marcus Hubbard (trumpet), Corey Peyton and Paul Robertson (trombonist), Erion Williams (saxophonist), and Manuel Perkins Jr. (sousaphonist). My…
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Friday Five – Optimists write history, Momentum is everything, The long game, Making others successful, Spend and have
Music of the Week Preservation Hall Jazz Band is a jazz band founded in New Orleans by tuba player Allan Jaffe in the early 1960s. The band derives its name from Preservation Hall (such a cool venue) in the French Quarter. Band members include Charlie Gabriel, Walter Harris, Ben Jaffe, Ronell Johnson, Branden Lewis, Clint…