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How You Leave
How You Leave is How You are Remembered. I receive a lot of calls from people leaving their jobs. Sometimes by choice or mutual...
Barbara Palmer
Aug 24, 20232 min read


Funny. Now Toss it.
Funny. Now toss it. I am in the process of purging 56 years of ‘stuff’. Easy with furniture, clothes and household goods. Not so easy...
Barbara Palmer
Jan 30, 20232 min read


Nomad
Nomad. In less than 90 days, I am embarking on a new adventure. A scary, exciting, at times overwhelming, opportunity to ‘sample’ the...
Barbara Palmer
Jan 4, 20233 min read

Healthy Leadership
Health. I woke up in the middle of the night (not unusual) and read Katie Couric’s first-hand account of her breast cancer diagnosis. ...
Barbara Palmer
Sep 28, 20222 min read

Quiet Quitting
Quiet Quitting? A lot has been written lately about a trend they are calling ‘quiet quitting’. The theory is that employees are just...
Barbara Palmer
Sep 20, 20222 min read


AND
And. As we begin the transition out of summer, it is the perfect time to talk about how we can be in two states simultaneously: sadness...
Barbara Palmer
Aug 9, 20222 min read


Action to Words
Action to words. My friend’s daughter published a book. She is 16. And she made the Amazon Bestseller List. The book is powerful and...
Barbara Palmer
Oct 14, 20213 min read


Deodorant.
Deodorant. There is a fine line between co-worker and friend. Some people ride the line easily and without issue. Others were taught...
Barbara Palmer
Sep 29, 20213 min read


Priorities
Priorities. The phone rings. “This is the high school. There is nothing to be worried about.” I’m not worried, I don’t have a child at...
Barbara Palmer
Jul 1, 20213 min read


Transitions
Transitions. It is that time of year: graduations, internships, new jobs. A lot of people going through a lot of change. Transitions...
Barbara Palmer
Jun 2, 20212 min read


Shared Wisdom
Shared Wisdom. There is so much to learn and re-learn, and I find myself consuming as much content as I possibly can – to educate myself...
Barbara Palmer
May 13, 20211 min read


Random Tuesday
Sushi by the Sea on a Random Tuesday in April. Random Tuesday. A few weeks ago, I took a random Tuesday off. REALLY off. I even set an...
Barbara Palmer
Apr 27, 20212 min read


I Don't Know
I Don't Know. There is a lot that I don’t know. Some of those things, I don’t give a second thought – I can Google, enlist an expert,...
Barbara Palmer
Apr 15, 20212 min read


Mom
My mother turns 80 today. As I reflect on my relationship with her, I thought I would share what I have learned, directly and in...
Barbara Palmer
Mar 31, 20212 min read


Time Stood Still
Time Stood Still. Literally … one year ago, my watch stopped. My watch has said 6:17 since late March 2020. At the time, there was no...
Barbara Palmer
Mar 16, 20212 min read


Sorry, Not Sorry.
Sorry. It’s a trigger word for me. Not the true apology where someone shows remorse for something they did to hurt or offend, but rather...
Barbara Palmer
Feb 23, 20212 min read


Public Service Announcement
Guest Wisdom. Anyone that knows me knows that I am passionate about women’s health and diagnostic screenings. A friend shared an...
Barbara Palmer
Feb 16, 20212 min read


Ambition
Ambition. On the night when a woman ascended to the second-highest position in the land, a group of multigenerational women joined...
Barbara Palmer
Feb 4, 20212 min read


Talk Less, Listen More.
A client recently introduced me to Habit 5 of Franklin Covey’s 7 Habits of Highly Effective People® and it has been on my mind ever...
Barbara Palmer
Jan 22, 20212 min read


Is the Grass Greener?
I started my first job at Paramount Pictures exactly 30 years ago TODAY. When I walked onto the Melrose studio lot, I felt movie magic....
Barbara Palmer
Jan 7, 20213 min read
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