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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...
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...
Asking for Truth: The Mystery of an Estranged Brother

Asking for Truth: The Mystery of an Estranged Brother

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...
Ask and Expand Your Network: Secrets of The Referral Diva®

Ask and Expand Your Network: Secrets of The Referral Diva®

by Paul Quinn | May 2, 2022 | Asking - Business, Asking - Entrepreneurs, Asking - Professional Development, Asking - Relationships

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...
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