The Consigliera Papers Podcast

<p>Recently, I was watching a tiktok where a young woman spoke quite passionately about a flare of controversy shooting up from the flaming heap of online cultural conversation. It wasn’t about politics, it was about...

<p></p><p>I’m not sure why we like to trace the origin of our sick and ask who gave it to us. It’s often phrased as active, the dank gift pressed upon us, or something we brought upon ourselves “she gave me the flu” or...

<p>My favorite audiences for the corporate trainings I do are people in their twenties and early thirties. They want to learn, so they are usually interested and engaged. They are curious. Often they start asking me...

<p>I was picking up my granddaughter Ruby from her house, and my son in law mentioned reading my recent substack in which I quoted Ruby. As I am wont to do. And Ruby looked up from putting on her shoes.</p><p>“Wait. You...

<p></p><p>Tomorrow is the launch of my book. And I’ve had mixed feelings about it. But as I was talking about it with my friend Juliette she stopped me.</p><p>“Revel,” she said. “You’ve been working towards this for...

<p></p><p>“I should develop thicker skin.”</p><p>I heard that phrase again this week and it got me thinking. I don’t think our job is to change our skin, or our personality or to file off the sensitive tender parts of...

<p>I’m putting together a sales training for a client, and I’ve been thinking about the best way to teach people how to persuade others. Last weekend, I was driving my grandkids to church, and I heard the following...

<p>I got sick last week, and my left tonsil turned into a lake of flaming pain. When I finally limped into the urgent care Sunday afternoon both the nurse and the doctor did that little medical flinch when they looked...

<p>I usually write about things I know or that I’m curious about. But what’s been on my mind lately is what I don’t know. My book launches one month from today. And I am consistently surprised by everything I don’t know...

<p>I remember a conversation I had with a co-worker vividly, even though I can’t remember her name or even where we were working. We were both salespeople, and we were at an event, staffing a table somewhere. It was...

<p></p><p>When I was in New Mexico I went to the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum. I didn’t know much about O’Keeffe, but I was curious. One of her paintings, The Barns, Lake George captured my attention. She painted it in 1926...

<p></p><p>I’m working on promoting my book, which is what I’m supposed to be doing right now instead of writing this. And I keep getting the same question.</p><p>What about the God thing?</p><p>Phrased one way or...

<p>This weekend I read a guest essay in the New York Times by Keker, Van Nest and Peters, the senior partners at the law firm Keker, Van Nest and Peters. It was a bracing exhortation for lawyers to stand up to Trump’s...

<p>This weekend I gathered with some friends I hadn’t seen in a while. We were waiting for the teapot to boil when one of my friends told me that her husband had been diagnosed with cancer. She then told me a story...

<p></p><p>Last week, my podcast partner Eugene S. Robinson sent me a link to an article that sounded a lot like content we’ve done on The Bad Boss Brief. My first thought was that plenty of people write about bad...