Since launching TheSkimm in 2012, Danielle Weisberg and Carly Zakin have grown their weekday newsletter to reach 6 million people and counting — and every step of the way, they’ve heard all kinds of reasons why their business wouldn’t work. Email is dead, women is too narrow of a market (really?!), the list goes on.…

Guy Fieri is exactly, and in some ways, nothing like what you’d expect. He’s absolutely the guy you see on Diners, Drive-Ins, And Dives and Guy’s Grocery Games — a bold jokester who’s food-obsessed and always down to have a good time. But what I didn’t expect the first time I spoke to him was…

Sometimes, a single sentence can change the way you look at the world. It’s something you want to share with every person you meet, hoping they get the same kind of horizon-expanding, “I’ve never looked at it that way!” eureka moment. (Sadly, all too often you’ll be met with blank stares and a polite “that’s…

I’ve gone back and forth on writing this post. Part of me feels like I have no place writing it — what authority do I have on the topics of gun control and school violence in America?! — but a larger part of me can’t stay quiet. I write to process things; here, I’m doing…

Gary Vaynerchuk isn’t one for sugarcoating the truth to make it easier for you to swallow. He’d rather jam it down your throat. After all, he’s the f-bomb-dropping entrepreneur who turned his family’s wine business into a $60 million a year company, then launched his own digital marketing agency, Vaynermedia. He knows his stuff, and…

Sometimes you need a book that guts you, that acts like a soul excavation, making you rethink what you believe about yourself and what you can do. Yes, I know how melodramatic that sounds, but something cracked open in me when I picked up Erwin McManus’s latest book, The Last Arrow. It’s a tome devoted…