“Who you are speaks so loudly I can’t hear what you’re saying.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson
I’ve been going to my fair share of business networking events recently, and what’s come up for me is that the conventional wisdom on networking and “selling yourself” could use a little tweaking.
Like many people, I used to go to [...]

Many people’s biggest fear around interacting with others is that they’re going to “run out of things to say.”  An “awkward pause,” to many of us, seems like the most painful and embarrassing thing that can possibly happen in a conversation.  We fear silence so deeply that we often find ourselves talking solely to fill [...]