Judy’s Illuminations
Information About My Uterus, And What I Do With It, Is NOT Public Domain!
A new year, a new job and a friend shares with me that within her first few days five different people ask, ‘So, do you have any children?’ Really!? Each time, the question came completely out of the blue, and out of context and, thus, more off-putting than the last. Her thoughts went from ‘Hmmmm…that’s an odd thing to ask a complete More...
The Truth About Jobs: 10 Tips to Help You Think Differently About Employment and Life
I can’t help but be struck by the changing reality of jobs in this new economy. How it’s really not about jobs anymore, but about letting go of obsolete ideas about jobs that no longer serve us. The reality More...
NBC Cuts Akram Khan Olympic Performance: a Mistake, ‘#Epicfail’ by US Media
Who knows why NBC chose to cut this deeply moving dance performance - choreographed by Akram Khan, MBE, and directed by Farooq Chaudhry to honor the lives lost in the July 7th, 2005 terrorist attack in London. More...
Self-Responsibility, the Courage to Choose: Why We’re Not Supposed to Have It All
My first reaction to the recent article ‘Why Women Still Can’t Have it All’ (Atlantic Monthly) was: We can’t still be talking about this. Then the flurry of emails and social media posts More...
Risk Averse or Leap of Faith? What are YOU Worth?
Recently, a client described to me her hesitancy about doing what she really wanted to do: move out West to be with her boyfriend and continue building her personal and professional life in a state she loves. More...
Rethinking What You Say and Mean
“Let Your Haters Be Your Motivators” Here we go again. In a previous article, I broke down the inherent negativity and inherent lack of the truth in a phrase often cited as a definition of love: “Love is More...
Health & Wellness: The Burden of our Blackness and our Role in the Pain.
As a life coach, I have the privilege of being part of a worldwide community of health and wellness practitioners. However, one can’t help noticing how overwhelmingly White the popular speakers and national More...
$640 Million and the True Cost of Lottery Fever
Recently, the United States held the largest jackpot in lottery world history. Tens of millions across the country spent money, they both had and didn’t have, for a chance to win $640million. A friend wrote, More...
Another School Massacre: Can We Get Honest about What’s Really Going on Here?
On February, 28, 2012, my response upon hearing the news of the shooting at Chardon High School in Ohio was a frustrated, “Not another school shooting!” Judy M. Ford The National School Safety Center and U.S. More...
