Give Us the Soul in Your Data. Whether you’re selling your work, interviewing for a new position, or running for an office in your professional organization, you need a good story to tell. The temptation is to offer a lot of information, numbers, maybe a few charts and graphs. Brené Brown famously said, “Stories are data with a soul.” So how do you tell the story of your business? Your practice? Your product? How do you tell your story?
I’ve been ghosted. Some things never change. It’s been 35 years since I went on a date. It was with Frank, we went to my 20th high school reunion, and he brought me a wrist corsage for the occasion. We settled into a serious relationship pretty quickly after that, leaving the dating rituals behind. Well, we often talked about going out to our favorite Italian place on Saturday night as “a date,” but it’s different when you’re spending time with a loving spouse as opposed to getting ready for some guy to pick you up at 7:00. What I’ve learned lately is that men haven’t changed in all those years while I was out of the dating scene. They still suggest something simple and non-threatening for a first time together. Say, meeting for lunch. And then they disappear.
