by magali | Feb 16, 2022 | Articles, Home Page Featured
When I reflect on where I am today and how I got here, I can see my drive to help others is the product of growing up with dysfunctional family communication and experiencing first-hand the devastation of bankruptcy and a bitterly contested will. And who would have...
by magali | Feb 2, 2022 | Articles
Homecoming – Berkeley, California As I walked into this beautiful Julia Morgan-designed house south of the University of California campus and saw the beaming faces of my roommates- to-be, I felt deep inside that I had crossed an important threshold. Nothing...
by magali | Jan 29, 2022 | Articles
I saw it coming again like a rippling wave of frustration and anger in my heart. We had been on the road for less than 30 minutes and already I was having problems with Mignonne. I had carefully said my morning prayers and set an intention for a day of peace and...
by magali | Jan 11, 2022 | Articles
“I did it. I resigned. I quit!” Tears had wet my face even before I called Klara to tell her. … I felt so relieved by saying it to her out loud! It was December 8, 2005, and I was driving home to Badhoevedorp after a meeting in the vicinity of Utrecht. It was...
by magali | Jan 4, 2022 | Articles, Home Page Featured
Apple co-founder Steve Jobs once said in a Stanford University graduation speech, “You can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So, you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future.” My story is...
by magali | Dec 19, 2021 | Articles
I’d lost count of how often that nagging question ambushed me. As I did every workday, I charged down the narrow road to the highway to work, my brain on fire. Not with ideas and energy, but with a morbid calculation that had become routine. So routine that I’d even...
