Are you Guilty of interrupting? 5 ways to up your listening game – from Public Speaking Coach Lauren Ferraro! Stop talking Listen 90% of the time and speak only 10%. Try to track how often you interrupt and ask yourself if you are truly listening. Practice breathing while someone is speaking to you to truly be engaged. Seriously – Take Notes! If… View Post
A Mom recently got on a plane with a young baby and immediately handed out “loot bags” to the passengers sitting near her. Included in the bags were ear plugs – a sort of pre-apology to whatever disturbance her baby might make. Well, a baby is one thing, but this phenomenon has anecdotally spread to others traveling with young children…. View Post
by @annebrodie BFCA BTJA AWFJ TFCA FIPRESCI A United Kingdom is an ironic title for this film about Britain’s shame in dealing with “the race question” in the late forties. Interracial marriages were taboo in the UK and the US but were absolutely illegal in South Africa, then known as Rhodesia. So when Prince Seretse Khama of Bechuanaland, now Botswana,… View Post
Distracted driving is topping the charts as the number one cause of motor vehicle crashes resulting in fatalities, in Ontario. The Ontario government also revealed the following shocking statistics regarding distracted driving: A driver using a phone is four times more likely to crash than a driver focusing on the road. One person is injured in a distracted driving collision… View Post
[youtube url=”https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jSU5_PXeTX0″ width=”500″ height=”300″] Carrie Trembinski talks PetSmart Charities of Canada’s National Adoption Weekend on What She Said. It’s well known that adopting a new pet and saving a life will warm the heart, but now scientific evidence is showing that owning a pet could help ward off heart disease, too. Just in time for National Heart Month, PetSmart and PetSmart Charities of Canada are… View Post
by @annebrodie BFCA BTJA AWFJ TFCA FIPRESCI Disney’s Beauty and the Beast is one of the most anticipated films of 2017. Starring Emma Watson as Belle and Downton Abbey’s Dan Stevens as The Beast (if you can imagine that!). It’s the twelfth filmed version of the French classic fairy tale which was first published in 1740. Researchers recently found that… View Post