Plastic is Forever
Watch, learn, and be inspired by Barbara de Vries. She is a designer, educator, and activist who transforms found ocean plastic into beautiful pieces of jewelry. Her mission? To reduce beach plastic pollution. Take a look.
Got Fat Brains?
From time to time, my husband and I have what we like to call a “playdate of genius,” where we invite people over for a home-cooked meal, great conversation, and, of course, a good mix of music and what usually happens with people our age—we sit, dream out loud, debate, share, dream out loud some more, and usually end up discussing our children. It’s always a great time, the conversation flows, and the evening is usually elegantly and pleasantly predictable.
Last night, I set out with the same formula, made a great meal, got the playlist of music together, and set the mood lighting just right for the evening’s gathering. The only difference was that our guests were three young guys between the ages of 23 and 31 who were crashing at my place before embarking on a conference at sea for young entrepreneurs called Summit Series
Let me tell you, last night I experienced one of those moments where you step back and look upon the scene and think out loud to yourself, “Is this really happening?” We dug deep into topics ranging from entrepreneurship, body hair, galactic travel, emotional intelligence, and “The Price is Right.” And the highlight for me was spending hours discussing Brain Computing Interface (BCI) while we played with Emotiv’s EPOC
Genius doesn’t discriminate
I recently had the fortunate blessing of interviewing a few amazing thinkers for my book, which included sitting down with the curator of TED, Chris Anderson; personal branding guru, William Arruda; Magda Yrizarry, one of the highest ranking Latinas at Verizon and Heide Gardner the Chief Diversity Officer for the Interpublic Group. The interviews were all intellectually intoxicating and it really made me realize why so many journalists and reporters stick to their passion of writing and investigating stories because the hunt for gold nuggets of knowledge, recommendations and new perspectives is addicting.
48 Hours of Play in the Rose City
It is really quite amazing when you decide to take on a city for all it’s got. I made this smart decision on a recent trip to Portland and must say, it was nothing shy of a “wow” business trip of play. Within 48 hours, I enjoyed unique quality time with one of my greatest inspirations, author and change agent, Kevin Carroll; lunch at the Nike campus; chocolate cake with a hot nutritionist and former fashion designer; bonding with an old friend and travel comrade, Katina; a great talk with 200 Latinas; and a to-die-for-foot massage. And yes, that all happened in two short days.
Enjoy my Practical Genius TV interview with Practical Genius Kevin Carroll, author of Rules of the Red Rubber Ball.
Eva Longoria on Latina genius
This afternoon, I had the great privilege of interviewing Eva on Latina genius. Enjoy the speed interview.