In this coaching example, it’s easy to see how one person’s difficult experience can be a gift to another person. The process of transferring the knowledge gained from your experience can be quite easy; especially when the coach’s direct experience mirrors the coachee’s. When you find a coach who has been through what you may ...

Last night I dreamt I was on Twitter again. The default brown avatar with the bewildered baby-blue eyes stared at me, 140-word messages scrolled through my mind, but I couldn’t understand any of the communications. I’m not against Twitter. I may possibly love it, but the dream stayed with me.   Twitter is true democracy, of the ...

If you’re going to coach someone over 3Lunches, it’s worth taking a look at how the professionals do it.       Legendary coach, Phil Jackson---known for his unorthodox coaching style---led the L.A. Lakers to victory in the NBA Championship Finals last week. The night after the big win, several of the Lakers appeared on Jimmy Kimmel Live!  ...

Yesterday, I sat with two young guys who were starting a business—mobile car detailing using eco friendly, organic products and very little water. Great idea. They were enthusiastic, knowledgeable, and both had a terrific work ethic. They detailed my car to show me how it worked. Wow. They even had uniforms and a color scheme—sharp. ...

We’ve all had that one moment in our lives when we just could not figure out what to do next. That moment—sometimes filled with confusion and panic—is often preceded by a calamity: a divorce, aging parents, a relationship breakup. These days, it’s more often than not the loss of a job, a home and financial ...

I’d met Mary eight years before when I visited the hair salon where she worked. She was just twenty-one, a talented stylist and we quickly became friends. A year later, Mary opened up her own salon. I admired her courage and entrepreneurial spirit.   When I shared the idea of 3Lunches with Mary, she immediately said, ...

Ham and cheese, tuna, and peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, chocolate chip cookies, apples, peaches, sliced carrots, raisins…what a wonderful or sometimes disappointing assemblage of food is hidden in school lunchboxes. I believe I spent my entire elementary school years imagining what was in my lunchbox, waiting

My Dad’s caregiver is a dynamic, giving person and when I explained 3Lunches to her, she loved the idea.  She has a wide circle of friends who are a tremendous support to one another. “I like that it’s short and focused,” she said. “There are certain issues that you need to really concentrate on to ...

After a recent visit to New Hampshire where I saw neighbors helping neighbors in the small community where my Dad lives, I mentioned my observations of community kindness to my sister.  She offered that every state in America is a helping state.  When things go wrong, neighbors deliver meals, take out the trash, visit with cakes ...

The 3Lunches introduction in London started with a bistro lunch in Knightsbridge. The guests were all women with a variety of backgrounds: a journalist, a former Vogue fashion writer and designer, a financial executive and the owner of a PR company – all bb (before babies they explained). None of the women were working at ...