Gren Wells succeeds in her directorial debut The Road Within not just because of her amazing script but because she put her heart into the film. When she introduced the film at the LA Film Festival, she showed everyone just that. First, she asked if anyone in the audience ever swore. The audience roared. Then she asked...
Category: Lessons from Pop Culture
Time to Go Pedal to the Metal
There is a fabulous montage in Bridget Jones’s Diary where Bridget gets so frustrated by the men in her life that she runs off to the gym to cycle off some pounds. Bridget, they’re not worth it. Pedal to the Metal Bridget pumps and goes pedal to the metal, sweating up a storm and giving...
Why Women Need Wonder Woman
There is nothing quite like training to be a doctor. It is a rigorous process with a learning curve as steep as a NASA shuttle’s trajectory into outer space. Not only are the hours long but the breadth and depth of the knowledge gained are over the moon, knowing that someone’s life may one day...
How to Make a Flexible Resolution
If you are like hundreds of millions of people around the world, you made a resolution this year. Join the Club Look what it did for Bridget Jones! At first, she mocked New Year’s resolutions, sarcastically telling Mark Darcy she wanted to cut down on drinking and quit smoking, all while holding a mimosa and...