Lisa Robbin Young

Tag: quotes

  • The Convo: Excellence, Prayer, and Naysayers

    Got big dreams? Hold fast to them, and don’t be afraid to pray for excellence. Many times, visionary creatives have lofty goals and ambitions, but we’re met with staunch criticism when we share them. This forces us to either stop sharing, or aim lower. Don’t be that person. Instead, when things are getting to you,…

  • Every Hero Needs A Theme Song – Part Five

    [Editor’s note: This is part five in a series of year-end posts I write to focus my efforts for the new year. Here are links to parts 1, 2, 3 and 4.] Brave. That was the theme for 2012, and as I look back, I can say I’m pretty happy with where things ended up.…

  • Every Hero Needs A Theme Song – Part Four

    [Editor’s note: this is a re-post from January 2012. Part 4 of a series of year-end posts I write each year. When we migrated to the new site design, all the old posts were archived. Here are posts 1, 2 and 3] Every year, I pick a word to frame my development. I also pick a “theme song” to underscore my…

  • Admitting Who You Really Are, Part One

    I’m learning that many of my best posts come out of a convergence of three moments in my life. This post is no different. The first is a piece of my long lost past. Crawdads When I was a kid, the mother of a very good friend (who nearly committed suicide after his dad died),…

  • The Hero In All Of Us

    Two years ago, I put together this video mashup of two scenes from Spider Man 2. In it, you hear Aunt May talking about how there’s a hero in each one of us. I thought it was a perfectly inspiring underscore to Spidey’s big train rescue scene. This video’s been watched over 175,000 times to…