by Jeff Slater | Jan 2, 2024 | Personal Stories
My mother passed away at 10:27 am on Friday, December 29, 2023. I’m sharing this remembrance from her funeral. Thanks for allowing me a moment of grace to tell a brief part of Mom’s story. Bea was known as Bea Bea and Queen Bea. Beatrice Ginsberg Slater...
by Jeff Slater | Jun 25, 2023 | Marketing Advice, Personal Stories
Nurturing Your Network – Becoming a Helpful Farmer that Plants Seeds for Tomorrow Are you comfortable asking a favor of someone you worked with 27 years ago? How about someone you knew at a summer camp in 1968? What about asking a friend of a friend that you met once...
by Jeff Slater | Jun 11, 2023 | Marketing Advice, Personal Stories
What Advice Would I Give My 19-Year-Old-Self About My Career? One of my favorite questions to ask friends and family is, what advice would you give your 19-year-old self about your career? At 19, I studied art history and communications at The University of...
by Jeff Slater | May 14, 2023 | Marketing Advice, Personal Stories
Dolce Far Niente Do you know this Italian phrase? It means the sweetness of doing nothing. While watching Eat, Pray, Love for the umpteenth time, this phrase bathed me with a sweet and happy feeling. In the scene, Liz Gilbert (played by Julia Robert) tells a friend...
by Jeff Slater | May 7, 2023 | Marketing Advice, Personal Stories
The Chilling Power of Persuasion: Cool Negotiating Strategies I am the first to admit I know little about mechanical things. Cars. Appliances. Lawn mowers. Tools that make scary, buzzy whirring sounds. On a recent regular checkup of my heating and air conditioning...
by Jeff Slater | Dec 29, 2022 | Marketing Advice, Personal Stories
Do you know the word sonder? It means the profound feeling of realizing that everyone, including strangers passing in the street, has a life as complex as one’s own, which they are constantly living despite one’s lack of awareness of it. Consider making...
