by Dean Bardouka | Jul 24, 2015 | Featured, Love
Growing up where and how I did, put some “interesting” core personality traits in me. One is that when I meet a person for the first time, I am automatically sizing them up: Are they a threat? What is their intent? I am skeptical of everyone and everything...
by Dean Bardouka | May 4, 2015 | Featured, Love
If you sit and visualize the times folks have helped you out when you were really in need; or, count out the times friends/loved ones/strangers carried you when you couldn’t quite muster up the strength or resources to carry yourself; remember each time someone spoke...
by Dean Bardouka | Apr 7, 2015 | Featured, Love
What would happen if I, if you, if all of us could ask this more often? Not just when we are getting paid for it or when we are in that “extra charitable, feel-good mood”, but in all that we do every minute of every day? Even on those days when we really don’t...
by Dean Bardouka | Mar 4, 2015 | Featured, Love, Work
Launch Festival is happening this week in San Francisco. If you visit the festival site, you will notice the logos for the companies launching today are blurred out while the ones for previous days are visible/linkable. After they “launch”, they come into focus and...
by Dean Bardouka | Feb 20, 2015 | Featured, Love, Work
I was speaking with a fellow blogger the other day. He said a mutual friend recently told him that she could tell when his blog posts were “more for him than his audience.” In other words, she could tell when he was working something out personally through his...
by Dean Bardouka | Feb 11, 2015 | Featured, Love
Yesterday, I wrote about the responsibility of conscious content creators in regards to race, gender and equality. Just hours after my post, three Muslim students were gunned down by Craig Hicks, a white, self-proclaimed “anti-theist”. The murder was done...
