Epiphany: Following Your Passion (Great One for Students and Recent Graduates)
“If you have a passion for something and do it with excellence, you will prosper. Money and career will follow.” - John Lehman John Lehman was 19 years old when he had his epiphany about what he was passionate about and what he wanted to do with his life. He was in...
Sometimes You Just Gotta Laugh…(Or The Day Funny or Die Saved My Life)
The other day, I was in a funk and in HUGE procrastination mode and was grudgingly going through my emails. As I forged down the list, I went ahead and hit Gretchen Rubin's Happiness Project daily email to see what her quote of the day was. (I've talked about her book...
Epiphany: Why Worry?
"Half the things we worry about don't happen; the other half happen whether we worry about them or not." This epiphany was the reason I started sleeping again while going through a difficult time in my life about 10 years back. Now, when there is a "crisis" at hand, I...
What was Osama bin Laden’s Epiphany? Lawrence Wright on The Colbert Report
There is always so much news about our amazing Epiphany contributors that I can’t keep up with it all. But my former intern just texted me to tell me that Lawrence Wright was on The Colbert Report last night so I thought it’d be fun to share this little bit of pop culture about a contributor that happens to be very special to this project and what he shared with me about Osama bin Laden when I interviewed him.
How Collecting Epiphanies Can Happen: Amazon + Facebook = Epiphany of Self-Respect
Once upon a time, I had just finished interviewing a very interesting psychologist named Kristin Neff and mentioned that I wanted to reach out to leaders in the Positive Psychology movement to hopefully interview at least one of them for this project. She said to me,...
Three Must-See Documentaries: One in Theaters Now
Tom Shadyac is a big-time Hollywood director whose credits include films like Ace Ventura: Pet Detective, The Nutty Professor, Liar Liar, Patch Adams, and Bruce Almighty. He had an epiphany (yes, working on getting his interview) after having an accident that made him evaluate his life and change it drastically. He then goes on a quest with a camera crew asking world-renowned thinkers and leaders in primarily science but also religion, spirituality and philosophy (people like our very own Desmond Tutu) about what is wrong with our world and what we can do about it. His quest is now his wonderful and insightful film, I Am.
Epiphany: Saved By My Mother
The following account was shared on EpiphanyChannel.com. Back in the early 80’s, before I got married, moved to Brooklyn and became a mom, I lived with my single mother and twin sister, Heidi, in an area known as Hell’s Kitchen. It was a rough New York neighborhood...
A Mother’s Epiphany about Love. (With a New and Happy Epilogue!)
Laurian Scott’s epiphany from the book, Epiphany, is at its core, about a mother’s love, and the email I just received from her husband is its epilogue.
What are your Epiphanies about Mothers and Motherhood? Book Giveaway in Honor of Mothers Day!
In honor of celebrating mothers everywhere, we’ll be doing a signed Epiphany book giveaway the day after Mothers Day by drawing from the names of everyone who sends in an epiphany story about anything related to motherhood – about your mothers, grandmothers, mothers-in-law, wanting to be/becoming a mother, being or what it means to be a mother
Epiphany about Mothers, a Father, Loss and Compassion
The first submitted epiphany I ever received on the relaunched website, came from my beautiful and talented friend, Maureen Muldoon. She and I were in a theater company in Los Angeles together about 9 years ago, but had completely lost touch over the years when I...
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