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How the stories come to life
My daughter is a double agent. For real. She’s both a Tri-Delt (Delta Delta Delta, aka “triple nipple”) sorority member and, unbeknownst to her “sisters”
We couldn’t find eclipse glasses in time for the actual eclipse tomorrow, so my husband and I are wearing welding helmets instead. Both the eclipse
A message of hope for Houston. Watching events unfold in Houston is deeply personal and visceral — really hard to watch. I lost my home
Today, I have no Internet. We’re going on week two. But I refuse to become the hot-headed Irish girl pre-programmed into my DNA. Nope, not
Canoeing on a crystal-clear high mountain lake in July is a good place to find oneself. Colorado rocks in the summer. Especially under a sky
One of the things I’ve learned during my “Adult Gap Year” (translation: no regular job, lots of motorcycle time, too many politics and more than
The moment irony makes a triumphant return After spending my career writing about fearlessness and celebrating the mantra “just start,” I find myself filled with
Look. I don’t like getting political. I’m a business writer and a rancher, which right now sounds like a very odd pairing. Like a pot
In business, as in life, never fear the free-ranging cow. Grab a rope, jump on a horse and harness that bitch. So say the rancher
Someone said that to me today. “You don’t have the chops. I mean you have great ideas, but you don’t have the chops to pull
My friend Annie made me a scarf. An extraordinary scarf –with no pink in it because I hate pink. She’s a weaver and she makes things
First, let me be perfectly clear here — I am an accidental tourist tonight. I have no business cruising through downtown Fort Collins with three
To set the stage, I spent the last 23 years busting my ass to claw my way to the top in media, a male-dominated, relentlessly
I realized I needed a nudge today. Finally. The Nudge. Happened. Today. Sheesh, finally. We all need a nudge on occasion. And to me this is particularly poignant,
What does it mean to be an entrepreneur? According to a simple Google search, it is “a person who organizes and operates a business or
I met this guy in an airport recently who was holding his guitar like a holy vessel; said he carried it everywhere. He was on
I once saw a painting called Contemplation on Emptiness, and it fulfilled me. It was so insanely gorgeous—the colors, the subject, the pure grace of
Every year we do this list—this fantastically unscientific list, in which we acknowledge 100 brilliant ideas, companies and the founders behind them. This list represents
Right now Silicon Valley is hoarding outsize credit for innovation and disruption of the status quo. I call b.s. Innovation and disruption have gone on
In case you haven’t noticed, storytelling has gotten a lot more fun. We can thank social media and a younger generation for a lot of
I had an idea for a business, and it made me giddy. It was so full of possibility, so compelling and dynamic and burning and
We’re all artists. That doesn’t mean we’re all Picassos with paintbrushes, mind you. But we all have the capacity to create something unique: music, paintings,
No matter what level of disruption we write about or talk about in the pages of this magazine, or discuss or highlight socially, at the
There are people and there are trends. Behind both? Thought. And the reinvention of thought. Trends and people can never be separated. The people part
Disruption is something we write about every month. It’s the force we stand for, and it’s what we advocate with every story. But it’s not
