Category Archives: Raving Fans

I Killed at Kaiser Palliative Care Department

Ok. That’s not funny. Yes it is. Well… it depends. Humor is relative. (No, I don’t mean your relative is funny. I mean that what is funny to some people in some circumstances isn’t funny to others, and that’s OK.) I recently spoke in Colorado for the Kaiser Permanente Palliative Care department. We had nurses,…

I’m Supposed to Eat *%$^@!! What?

I was flattered to speak at a diabetes forum in Canon City, Colorado recently.  I love my job as a speaker.  And I love being a Colorado Speaker because I live here.  (Yay, no airplanes today!) But this one was personal:  my daughter has Type 1 Diabetes.  This is a big deal, requires constant vigilance,…

Bankers Want To Have Fun Too

I just got back form Richmond, Indiana (near Indianapolis, Indiana) where I spoke to the entire staff of First Bank Richmond.  They have been going through some tough times lately— and not just the general strife all of the banking industry is enduring.  They just updated some huge systems, and the process has been good…

Everybody Likes a Bit of Raving

I recently worked in San Diego, California for a group of teachers from the Department of Defense called STARBASE.  It was a cool group of educators tasked with getting “at risk” kids fired up about math and science.   It’s not a military group, but these “schools” are mainly on military bases, so there are plenty…