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…

When this blog launched, I committed to posting three times a week, every week, for a year. By the end of the year, I couldn’t wait to give it up. It was just too much in an already-packed schedule, and had quickly become an obligation. So I slipped to one post a week. Before long,…

Sometimes you need a dark, decadent thriller. You know it’s not going to inspire any earth-shattering bits of wisdom or provide you with groundbreaking insights into the human mind. It’s just, well, thrilling, as you flip from page to page, rushing to outwit the author and figure out whodunnit before the big reveal at the…

There’s that tension building up inside of you. With each frustration, it mounts. You tell yourself it’s not a big deal, it’s nothing, and then — bam! — you’re seething, and you’ve got to tell someone, anyone, what a colossal frustration you’re forced to put up with. Maybe that’s not you at all. Maybe you’re…

The most fascinating thing about people is the second you think you’ve got them figured out, they go and surprise you. I’ve always been the journaling type, so for years, I’ve analyzed interactions — with friends, coworkers, family, even acquaintances on the street — trying to understand how I am the way I am, and…

This advice is going to sound totally counterintuitive, though in today’s self-care age, any advice that hopes to crash through the noise of our day-to-day life (and the clickbait-y internet), generally is. For years, I’ve been chasing success. It’s been the gold star that validates me, the thing I push toward every day, because honestly,…