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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
by Paul Quinn | May 4, 2022 | Asking - Relationships
“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...
