Nothing Can Stop Us Now: A Valentine’s Day Announcement

Vintage-style Valentine’s Day illustration of Mickey Mouse and Minnie Mouse holding hands in front of a large red heart with the words “Be My Valentine.”

With Valentine’s Day just around the corner, love is in the air—and Lyndsey and I have an exciting announcement to share! We are coauthoring a relationship book, Nothing Can Stop Us Now: Timeless Tips for Your Happily Ever After. Since…

Tomorrowland Is Not Your Friend

Historic photo of Disneyland’s original Tomorrowland in the 1950s featuring the America the Beautiful attraction, classic Tomorrowland pylon, and early park guests—capturing Walt Disney’s opening-year Tomorrowland design.

Happy 2025! I hope your holidays were filled with joy and that your New Year is off to a promising start. While none of us can predict exactly what the next twelve months will bring, I’m already anticipating and looking…

Freeing Yourself from Fear: A Four-Step Approach

Have you ever felt your heart race at the thought of pursuing a big idea, a lofty goal, or a dream that seems just out of reach? You’re not alone. Imagine standing on the precipice of a new adventure, feeling…

Eight for You, Two for Me

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This might come as a shock, but not every day at Disneyland is great. In fact, I’ve even had a few that weren’t even good. It doesn’t happen often. But it does happen. May 25, 2022 was one of those…

Empower Everyone to Make Magic

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Have you ever wanted to work in Human Resources? Yeah, me neither! But I am on my way to Boston this week to speak at an HR Conference on the future of work and to celebrate the one-hundredth anniversary of…

Are You Ready for Your Great Big Beautiful Tomorrow?

How many of you have a love/hate relationship with technology? Guess what…me too! Honestly, I can’t imagine our world today without computers, cellphones, Google, apps, Facebook, Instagram, or even TikTok. But if you are an old Yahoo, like me, then…

It All Started with a…Telegram!

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Where were you three years ago? That’s right! It has already been three years. On March 8, 2020, I took a group of students to Disneyland for a Sunday tour and COVID was already all over the news. On Wednesday,…

The Little Old Lady from Long Beach

The Little Old Lady from Long Beach

How many of you remember the song from the 1960s, “The Little Old Lady from Pasadena”? This week, I want to talk about “The Little Old Lady from Long Beach.” There might not be a song about her, but I…

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