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Hey Roy!

This past week I keynoted one of the most fantastic events ever. It was the Legal Marketing Association's annual conference, and while you might think that an association conference could never be exciting or even surprise you... you'd be wrong. Dead wrong.

And here's why.


Roy Sexton is the chair of the association, and Roy knew his members, and he knew what his members needed: an emotional release, unbridled joy, and amplification of their truest selves after a long few years of taking it on the chin. And, he decided to give them exactly what they needed in the form rainbows, sequins, wigs, and platform heels.

Yes, my friends, there was a drag queen duet to start a conference of 1100 legal marketers. Because why not, right?

My call time for the stage was 9am. At 8:15am the doors opened. All 1100 of the legal marketers in attendance filed in and found their seats. (My parents, who had never seen me speak, were also there and filed in alongside the attendees.) People were subdued, back together for the first time in years, an early morning after late night travel, and while they were excited to see each other, there was a palpable nervousness in the air.

At 8:30am, the room went dark, and Roy, backstage and bejeweled from head to toe in a rainbow-sequined tuxedo tails and silver shirt and pants started singing the opening bars to Born This Way by Lady Gaga. The audience started clapping in time as he came out from behind the curtain and performed the first part of the song.

But, wait! There's more!

As he began to belt out the chorus, Athena Dion, The Greek Goddess, strode out to join him, and together they sang. The audience was on their feet. The room was pumping. The audience sang and danced as they worked the room like a runway.

The joy was everywhere. (And you can watch the video here.)

Regardless of where you stand on the nonsense fight going on about drag queens -- I mean, let's face it, with the existential climate crisis and rampant mass shootings, don't we have bigger fish to fry?!? -- you can't help but fall in love with love.

(By the way, if this week's newsletter offends you, feel free to show yourself out here by unsubscribing. It's cool.)

Roy wanted to open this conference -- the first time they were all back together in three years -- with a message: a welcome mat laid out wide, love for all, amplification for every one of us.

Here's what I know to be true this week: There are million billion miles between being loved and being seen. (Tweet this.)

So many of us feel unseen. Even if we feel loved, we stand nervously on edge, worrying about whether of not people will love the real us when we show them who we really are. Roy blew the doors off of that notion, inviting the entire audience in to his world, and showing them that they could invite him into theirs.

Oh, and, from now on, I'm going to insist in my rider that a drag queen opens every keynote for me.

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Success is a tricky thing. For starters, what does success even mean? Everyone has their own definition of success, yet we are often held to society's standards. In this unique event on Monday, May 15th, from 1 pm - 2 pm EDT, three notable authors, Aliza Licht, Laura Gassner Otting, and Christina Wallace, will discuss this topic from their experienced perspectives and respective new books, ON BRAND, Wonderhell, and The Portfolio Life.
Each of us brings decades of experience and fascinating stories to the table:

Aliza Licht is an award-winning marketer, 2x author, podcaster, and personal branding expert with over twenty-five years of experience in the image-making fashion industry. Her new book, ON BRAND: Shape Your Narrative. Share Your Vision. Shift Their Perception. is part career book, part personal growth guide, and a comprehensive roadmap to building your personal brand so your name is dropped in rooms you're not in and that you're recommended for opportunities other people haven't even heard of yet.

In the WSJ bestseller, Wonderhell: Why Success Doesn't Feel Like It Should . . . and What to Do About It, Laura Gassner Otting leverages her 30-year-plus resume, defined by her entrepreneurial edge, to introduce the idea that success is often both a wonder and a hell. She answers the question: Why doesn't success feel like it should? What do we do with this confusing feeling, and how do we learn to live with this newfound potential that's both exciting and exhausting?

In The Portfolio Life: How to Future-Proof Your Career, Avoid Burnout, and Build a Life Bigger than Your Business Card, What Color Is Your Parachute? meets Out of Office in this inspiring, practical playbook. Christina Wallace, serial entrepreneur, podcaster, and Senior Lecturer of Entrepreneurial Management at Harvard Business School, shares her solution for anti-hustle culture and how having a "portfolio life" (rather than pouring yourself into one single full-time job) will help you future-proof your career and achieve a sustainable work-life balance while optimizing your happiness, personal growth, and bank accounts.
Do You Wish You Were More Productive?

My work wife, Rahaf Harfoush, has one of the top-rated coursed on LinkedIN Learning, and between now and June 9, it's free for all.

It might seem counterintuitive, but to get more done, you have to work less.

Working hard in pursuit of our goals is a hardwired belief, one that has resulted in productivity ideals that are unrealistic—or even unattainable. Non-stop hustle doesn’t guarantee better performance (the research is very clear about this), it just guarantees more work.

In this course, Rahaf Harfoush teaches you how to rethink productivity (hint: productivity is not about feeling guilty if you're not productive), and build sustainable productivity practices that support your well-being, rather than drain you mentally or burn you out. Rahaf debunks outdated productivity myths and shows you new ways to manage your energy to design a system of working that is more aligned with your creative cycles, instead of focusing on productivity tips that do more harm than good.
Limitlessly yours,
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