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Asking Forgiveness: Is Your Apology Empty or Effective?

Asking Forgiveness: Is Your Apology Empty or Effective?

by Paul Quinn | Feb 11, 2025 | Asking - Relationships, Asking - Workplace, Communication Skills, Handling Conflicts, Personal Development

Oh, the possibilities are horrible. And endless. Your attempt at humor backfires and you’re marked as an insensitive jerk. Someone you love catches you in a lie that hurts them and erodes their trust in you. You accidentally text “Just between us, I think Sam is...
Is it Hard to Ask the One You Love?

Is it Hard to Ask the One You Love?

by Paul Quinn | Aug 8, 2023 | Asking - Relationships, Communication Skills, Human Behavior

From dating to mating and beyond, many people find it difficult to ask their partners for what they want. I asked Rachel Sussman, LCSW, to shed some light on this topic. She is a licensed psychotherapist, relationship expert, writer and lecturer. Rachel is the founder...
Holocaust Memory: The Ask That Changed Everything

Holocaust Memory: The Ask That Changed Everything

by Paul Quinn | Mar 30, 2023 | Asking - Empowerment, Asking - Relationships, Uncategorized

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...
A Gift of Cranes

A Gift of Cranes

by Paul Quinn | Jan 22, 2023 | Asking - Health, Asking - Relationships, Healthcare

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...
Safe to Ask? A Chat with a Chief Nursing Officer

Safe to Ask? A Chat with a Chief Nursing Officer

by Paul Quinn | Sep 30, 2022 | Asking - Health, Asking - Leadership, Asking - Relationships, Asking - Workplace, Communication Skills, Healthcare, Work-Related Stress

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...
From Fearless Ask to Entrepreneur: Meet Adele Nandan

From Fearless Ask to Entrepreneur: Meet Adele Nandan

by Paul Quinn | Jun 1, 2022 | Asking - Cultural Attitudes, Asking - Entrepreneurs, Asking - Relationships, Asking - Travel

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...
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