I have been listening to the audiobook of Ray Kroc, the man who took McDonald's global with the Franchising method. What strikes me most is not the McDonald's success story itself but everything that came before it. He had many different sales jobs and products, each
I started watching the Karl Lagerfeld mini series on Disney/Hulu and I began to see something that, I believe, explains why Karl didn’t just have a successful career in fashion… he built one of the most enduring creative legacies of the modern era. Karl never seemed obsessed with
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You've probably noticed that some of the popular brands on social media are no longer showing you traditional 30-second ads, or regular product focused posts anymore. The culture of customer engagement has shifted in the content creator economy and brands can no longer tell you why they are
As the generation of postmodernism, and we inherited a void: the absence of a holistic identity, the kind that gave every generation before us a signature language they could call their own. Our postmodern world gave us critical intelligence, but it took from us clarity of identity. The technological revolution
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We’re in an era of over-explaining. People post something, and the moment there’s a negative comment, they come back with a full explanation. A justification. A breakdown of what they meant, what they didn’t mean, who they are, why they did it. And I understand it. But
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Cultured Life · Brand Strategy · Legacy A single photograph from the Artemis 2 mission just changed the way I see everything we build in our world. The Shift This week, video footage emerged from the Artemis 2 crew — the first of their kind: the Earth, setting beneath the horizon of the
Cultured Life · Brand Strategy · Legacy A single photograph from the Artemis 2 mission just changed the way I see everything we build in our world. The Shift This week, video footage emerged from the Artemis 2 crew — the first of their kind: the Earth, setting beneath the horizon of the
When CeCe Winans stepped onto the stage at the Saint Lucia Jazz Festival in 2023, something shifted. It wasn’t just the music; it was the healing feeling. At Pigeon Island National Landmark, a place already layered with history, her voice seemed to settle over the audience in a way
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Yvette Noel-Schure, Executive VP and Co-Founder of Schure Media Group, is a force in the music industry, having shaped the careers of some of the world’s most iconic artists. Prior, she spent 17 years as Senior VP of Media at Columbia Records/Sony Music, Yvette played a pivotal role
When CeCe Winans stepped onto the stage at the Saint Lucia Jazz Festival in 2023, something shifted. It wasn’t just the music; it was the healing feeling. At Pigeon Island National Landmark, a place already layered with history, her voice seemed to settle over the audience in a way
That this spirit of connection has followed me through to CultureCon.
When I met Agnes, it was not just her story that drew me in, but her presence. There is a certain refinement to the way she sees the world—an eye trained not only by years in the art world, but by a life deeply lived. From Parisian galleries serving