Why did you write Things I Used To Do To Sneeze?
I wrote the book because I work in the entertainment industry as well as in corporate America, but what I found in the entertainment industry and in our real lives is that people create these brands that are based upon societal expectations and values and not based upon their own values. Then what happens is the real them wants to surface but then it’s too late because they’ve sold the brand to the public in a way that wasn’t most authentic to them.
Define a ‘broken home.’
It’s interesting because one of the things I talk about in my book is not to label things. Some people say it’s only one parent in the house and when the parents aren’t together it’s called a “broken home” but what does that even mean? We have to get away from labeling things and just deal with the facts, which is there’s one parent in the house. When we label things we start to behave like the label that we’ve received.
What type of advice do you have for aspiring professionals?
Identify your values. I know it sounds like a really simple thing to do. In reality, we really don’t know what our values are because when we’re young we’re given our value system by our parents and the adults around us tell us what we should care about. There is no formal way for us to check in our teens or 20s to see how do I really want to live my life and what is it that I care about? Before we get to that point, I encourage parents to help your children because they know what they care about.
