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05 Jun 2018

SCOTUS Backs the Baker, Sam B Drops the C-Word, Starbucks Gets a Star, and What’s up with Roseanne Barr?

Over the past week, we’ve seen one news story after another on the subject of intolerance, from Starbucks’ day of racial awareness teach-in, to ABC’s quick decision to pull the plug on Roseanne, to yesterday’s Supreme Court Decision in Masterpiece Cake Shop vs. Colorado Civil Rights Commission. And on top of all that, there was Samantha Bee’s use of the C-word to describe Ivanka Trump! ...

21 May 2018

5 THINGS I LEARNED IN BLACK CHURCH

I have a royal wedding hangover because I jumped right in with nothing but well wishes for Prince Harry and his bride Meghan Markle, now titled, her Royal Highness, The Duchess of Sussex. We were taken into their fairytale, then the Duke and Duchess, lead by Bishop Michael Curry, took Queen Elizabeth and hundreds of millions of people across the world, many for the first time, somewhere ...

17 May 2018

Peace is a Process—and it’s Crazy

60 Palestinians killed, more than 1700 injured, and most were unarmed. For the past few days, I’ve been trying to comprehend the violence that broke out once again between Israelis and Palestinians, this time in response to the opening of the new US embassy in Jerusalem. It felt surreal to be watching the ceremony of officials smiling and applauding the embassy when, at that exact moment...

13 May 2018

New TVMC-U Course – Fair and Effective Interviewing for Diversity and Inclusion

I’m thrilled to introduce you to my new video course for individuals – Fair and Effective Interviewing for Diversity and Inclusion by Vernā Myers. For the past twenty years I have partnered with corporations and law firms around the world to figure out how best to train interviewers to be inclusive – this course will help your interviewers feel more comfortable interviewing across differ...

09 May 2018

Men & Therapy: The Perfect Couple

People who know me well know that I’ve got a rule when it comes to who I will and won’t date: I won’t date a guy who hasn’t been to therapy. OK, I’m joking—mostly. Let’s just say I’m a little suspicious of men who haven’t done some kind of emotional work with a professional counselor or therapist. When guys I’ve dated have sheepishly admitted that they’d gone to therapy, they would be...

10 Apr 2018

Forget “Balance.” The Secret to Happiness is Alignment.

Raise your hand if you’ve ever said “I wish I had more balance in my life.” Lots of hands out there, right? So many of us seem to think there’s some magical formula, and that if everything in our lives was in the right proportions—work, family, social life, etc.—then bam, we’d be happy. Often, when we talk about balance it’s because we’re at a decision point: We want to switch jobs or...

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