Big Ask Blog
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...
Emergency rooms are not safe places to make assumptions. That's why nurses who are unafraid to ask questions can significantly improve the health outcomes for their patients. Elizabeth Even, MSN, RN, CEN, is an emergency department nurse at Northwestern Memorial...
In this article we explore my interviewee's life-changing ask, her thoughts on Indian women's attitudes about asking, and how she views asking differently at work and home. Adele Nandan is founder and chief experience officer of The JoYOUs Journey, a full-service...
To Keiran Meeke's way of thinking, tourists and travelers are not the same. Tourists are spectators. But travelers, he says, engage and learn from people. And that can be transformative. It can even give you better photos, a private viewing of the Georgian National...
A few years ago, after I gave a talk at Northeastern Illinois University on the subject of asking as a life skill, a student of Asian descent raised his hand and asked if I had any stories in my book from Asian people (at the time I didn't). When I said no, he said,...
It sounds like a riddle: How do you know to ask for important information when you don’t know there’s important information to ask for? Most of us trust that the information we’ll need to navigate a new situation will be helpfully volunteered if it’s not obvious...
How do the questions we ask reveal our biases and create, often unintentionally, disharmony and distance? I explored this topic with Rocki Howard, Chief People and Equity Officer at The Mom Project, an organization that connects skilled professional women (and men)...
"Truth isn't always beauty," wrote Nadine Gordimer, "but the hunger for it is." To be sure, it's a hunger we're not always willing to satisfy, nor even nibble at. It takes courage—sometimes extraordinary amounts of it—to ask for the truth. Because once it's revealed...
Virginia Muzquiz, The Referral Diva®, founder and Chief Connection Officer at Master Connectors, Inc., has more than two decades of experience generating business by referral. She has helped thousands of business owners connect with networks that provide them with the...