Big Ask Blog
In her earliest memory of life in Poland, Ida Paluch was three years old when she, her twin brother, Adam, and older sister, Gienia, witnessed a woman, mad with fear, jump from a building to her death to escape forced relocation and inevitable murder by the Nazis. The...
Could a single question get a bomber to confess? Could "playing dumb" catch an arsonist? What happens when you ask for the truth from powerful people who don't want to answer truthfully? Cynthia Beebe is a retired Senior Special Agent with the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol,...
One afternoon many years ago, after hours of coaching McDonald's corporate presenters for a company-wide conference, I stepped out to grab some lunch. It had been a full morning of back-to-back rehearsals at the company's Chicago-area headquarters. And it was the...
Suffering the effects of a major illness can feel scary and isolating. Getting through it takes not only medical assistance but emotional support. In the story that follows, my friend David Fisk tells of four "asks" that loved ones made on his behalf during a health...
Charity Cox-Hayden is chief nursing officer for Atlas Healthcare Partners, LLC, an ambulatory surgery center (ASC) development and management company headquartered in Phoenix, Arizona with surgery centers in Phoenix, Tucson, and Northern Colorado. She and I recently...
In September 2020, Don Lessem and Valerie Jones drove from their home in Philadelphia to Las Vegas, where they walked onto the famously intimidating set of ABC’s Shark Tank to ask $500,000 for a 10% stake in Dino Don Inc., their $1.8M animatronic dinosaur...
Award-winning journalist Janet Susan R. Nepales is the first Filipina member of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA) which votes on and presents the annual Golden Globe Awards. She was an executive co-producer of the Golden Globe Awards show (75th to...
In this interview, award-winning sales influencer Cynthia Barnes shares her solid tips and strategies for asking for raises, referrals, and feedback, as well as her insights on why claiming your self-worth is like putting money in the bank. Though her professional...
Life-changing opportunities don’t show up often. When they do, you have to be ready for them. But if you're in the flow you don't wait for opportunities, you create them yourself. Michel Elings did just that. And this is his inspiring story. Michel was a co-creator...
Las Vegas-based fashion designer David Tupaz is the artistic force behind David Tupaz Couture, the first couture atelier in the City’s history, recognized as the hub and heart of Nevada’s fashion industry. The Philippines-born designer shows his work at every major...