How an $8 Bouquet of Tulips Made Me Rich

Prefer to listen? Click below. A flower blossoms for its own joy. I just finished arranging white tulips in a lovely crystal vase.Three arrangements, to be precise. Each week, I stop by the local grocery store or the farmer’s market to pick up three bouquets of flowers — one for my kitchen, dining room and […]

3 Areas That Deserve Your Daily Attention

Prefer to listen? Click below. Every fall, I take the most fabulous group of ladies to Paris for an indulgent retreat on femininity, style, confidence and luxurious living. The intention: to French Kiss Life with every ounce of our beings. Every woman comes back changed.  But, it’s not because we’re sitting around writing out our 5-year vision […]

Want to Blow Your Own Mind? Do This Every Day

Prefer to listen? Click below. It’s an ordinary Tuesday. I have three client calls, two meetings and an article that is due. I don’t plan on leaving the house until 6PM to join up with a friend for happy hour. It would be so easy to roll out of bed, down some coffee and feel […]

Are Your Standards Too Low?

Prefer to listen? Click below. Letting anyone who breathed be a part of my inner circleApologizing for taking up too much space.A messy financial world. Eating stale donuts because I was bored. Dressing like a homeless person at home. These are just a few of the many ways I had set the bar way too low in my […]

Are You Ready to Slow Down to a Saunter?

Prefer to listen? Click below. Slow down and enjoy life. It’s not only the scenery you miss by going to fast – you also miss the sense of where you are going and why. Sauntering is beautiful and elegant.  We admire the woman who seems to be a flaneur in her life. But, seldom do we give […]

Ease Does Not Mean Easy

Prefer to listen? Click below. I feel virtuous because my soul is at ease. Women will often confess to me, “I want an easy life.” And, I always challenge them that they’d be miserable if they chose that route. The human soul is designed for growth, which is rarely easy. But, what I do believe women […]

Guess Where I Saw God?

Prefer to listen? Click below. It is a luxury to do something that serves no practical purpose: the luxury of civilization. I walked in and saw God.He wasn’t wearing a turban or meditating in the shoe department. He wasn’t passing out flyers or chanting om. He didn’t come down the heavens (or escalator) in a grand […]

Let’s Talk about Style, Beauty & Life (11 of Your Questions Answered)

Prefer to listen? Click below. At the end of the day, the questions we ask of ourselves determine the type of people that we will become. I love questions — asking and answering them. And, recently, we’ve had a lot of questions coming in via email and on my Facebook page — everything from aging and style […]

How to Bloom Where You’re Planted

Prefer to listen? Click below. Wherever you are, and whatever you do, be in love. How many times a day do you wish for your life to be different? Perhaps you wish you lived in a different place or had a different job. Maybe you think that if the right person came along, your life […]

Follow the Fun

Prefer to listen? Click below. You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough. I just returned from a week in Costa Rica. I played in the ocean, sipped mojitos by the beach, scheduled a work day by the pool and hung with the locals. Fun…that’s the only way I know to describe […]