Dear Chhori (Daughter): Congratulations on starting a long and exciting journey by officially beginning kindergarten today! It was lovely to see you so excited and enthusiastic when we dropped you off at your school. I hope the same level of excitement lasts throughout your school journey. ...

I was laid off from a new job two weeks before the COVID shutdown of NYC in 2020. I knew the company had made a purely cost-cutting move, and I knew the city faced economic disaster across every industry. I also knew my paycheck-to-paycheck existence needed rethinking to survive the coming financ...

Tom Jordan and his wife, Anne, were both ready to retire when they realized their high cost of prescription medications wouldn’t let them begin enjoying their “golden years” just yet. A heart attack survivor, Tom was taking seven prescription drugs, just to stay alive. Anne was taking several as...

When Let’s Rethink This (LRT) was forming around our core work – which is to locate the changemakers of this world (searchlight), put their talents and solutions on full display (spotlight) and then see to it that their important contributions would attract and engage investors and partners (igni...

I’ve been working with Jerry Ashton on Let’s Rethink This since the concept was just a gleam in Jerry’s eyes last fall. When he first presented the concept I thought it was intriguing. The more I thought about it and the fact that the world is in such deep shit, the more and more I came to realiz...