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Ben and Amy Wright Change the Way We View Disabilities "The beginning of love is the will to let those we love be perfectly themselves, the resolution not to twist them to fit...

Ben and Amy Wright own Bitty & Beau's Coffee, proudly employing people with disabilities. The shop is named after their children who have Down Syndrome. The Wrights are...

A Lesson on Dealing with Challenges The great Winston Churchill once said, “Fear is a reaction, but courage is a decision.” Perhaps no one demonstrates this truth better than my...

Stop Blame-Shifting and Own Your Role "When we deny the story, it defines us. When we own the story, we can write a brave new ending." – Brene Brown Hours after the mass school...

IN STUDIO – Webcast #13: Living Possibility: Create Your Life’s Masterpiece Live Inspired IN STUDIO Webcasts are LIVE every third Monday of the month at 10:30 AM CST. If you are...

Understanding and Tackling Modern Day Slavery "We are only as blind as we want to be." – Maya Angelou [Tweet this.] | [Share on Facebook.] There are more than 500,000 homeless...

Lessons from Four Years of Lunches with My Grandfather Just after I graduated college and started my career, I read the book “Tuesdays with Morrie.” It was a remarkable book,...

Photo Credit: www.mitchalbom.com What Mitch Albom Learned from his Tuesdays with Morrie Schwartz "We make a living by what we get. We make a life by what we give." - Winston...

Mitch Albom, author of the bestselling memoir of all time, Tuesdays with Morrie, never meant to be a writer. Hear the unlikely way Mitch found himself writing his beloved...

A Lesson on Creativity from My Daughter Grace Erik Wahl, the latest guest on my Live Inspired Podcast, wrote that many of us believe creative genius is reserved for the chosen...

Erik Wahl Reminds Us That We're All Artists "Make your lives a masterpiece, you only get one canvas." -E.A. Bucchianeri Erik Wahl had it all figured out. As a child, he learned...

“It was good until it wasn’t.” Erik Wahl valued hard work and success. Achievement + money were his measurement and, by his early 30s, he was very successful in corporate...