Unapologetically Extraordinary

Personal brand

Listen on If there is anything that I would immediately sign off as being true is that Old Hollywood was full of personal brands. Personal brands nowadays are rare – even though the topic is hotter now than ever. If you look at the models and photospreads, they all look alike. The beauty standards have […]

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Hard Work

Listen on Researching Old Hollywood, I found there was one prevalent topic almost always at play – and that was hard work. I guess, in a way, back then in the early 20th century, this was just what was expected from people. For some of the stars that I researched, hard work had been a

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Vision

Listen on What does it need to make decisions, to tap into your intuition and to create your live deliberately. So, what you need to make decisions and achieve success is a vision, a destination of what you want to create. And of course, Old Hollywood is full of people that had a vision. Something

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Determination and Denial

Listen on When I was researching the actress Tallulah Bankhead, I read a book on her and other showgirls and flappers of that time and one passage of the book was: “(But) Tallulah possessed wonderful powers of determination and denial.“ I immediately LOVED this quote. There is so much wisdom in it and since then

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Types of Toxic People

Listen on Have you ever wondered about the people around you? Are they simply un-sympathetic and un-empathetic or mean? Do they know what they are doing? Or are they unaware of the effect they are having? Who are they? Are they all the same? I was wondering this when dealing with a very un-empathetic person

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