Entries by Jenna Whelan

New Year’s Resolutions? There’s an App for That.

We’ve all been there. It’s the start of another year and you’ve made another New Year’s resolution. You tell yourself that it won’t be like the previous year’s resolutions where you forgot about it after a week or two or you weren’t motivated enough to stick with it. Meanwhile, we respond to every notification that […]

Mentorship

I recently had the opportunity to engage in an in-depth discussion with several women who have leadership roles at their respective companies regarding a variety of topics. During the discussion, the subject of mentorship was brought up. Many businesspeople attribute success to having had a mentor early on in their career. The idea of having […]

I believe in Santa

Let’s be honest… there’s a lot of crap going on in the world today. No-one likes the rat-race. And in a world where politics often trump logic and doing the right thing, life can be tiring at times. Which brings me to Santa and the emotional reaction he generates from children around the world. There’s […]

Are You Distracted?

I am not a fan of driving, so I personally try to avoid it. It has nothing to do with my own driving, but it’s really because of other people on the road. As a passenger I’m constantly looking out the window at other drivers. The sad reality is that most drivers aren’t fully focused […]

Fire

You wake up. You eat your breakfast, read some news. Time comes to take your dog for a walk. You leash him up and march out on a nice cool, sunny morning, down a winding hilly road of native pines and shrubs. You pass a neighbor walking her dog and stop to chat. You both […]

Getting off this Rock

Congrats to the amazing NASA team for landing a new rover on Mars Monday. The successful landing was filled with so much tension, like their calculations were off and it would fail in the last seven minutes. Would love to have compared that to the tension of the supposed moon landing almost 50 years ago. […]

Personalized Tech: Great When It Works

There is nothing better than trying out new technology and having it transform the way you were consuming a service.  For example, I stumbled across this list of Netflix codes and it enabled searching shows by way of numerous unique categories. You just plug the numbers into your browser at the end of a URL, […]

Communicating with Creatives

By nature of the industry, advertising and marketing agencies are filled with creative and artistic thinkers. While creative professionals often have a reputation for being imaginative and talented, business professionals occasionally express a gap between what they expected from a creative agency, and what an end deliverable looks like. When this happens, there is potential […]

LEGO: The Bricks that Built the Brand

Everyone has a personal story connected with LEGO, whether it is remembering the first thing you built as a child, the first time you gave a set to your children or remembering the piercing pain you experienced stepping on a LEGO piece. Whatever your experience with LEGO is, it’s a memorable one and it has […]