Big Ask Blog
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...
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...
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,...