A Balanced Glass was invited as guests on an upcoming podcast hosted by Sonoma-based Garden Society, which produces chef-inspired confections with low-dose cannabis as an ingredient. What we discovered was beyond what we imagined.
All in Business
Be Careful What You Ask For – Millennials Respond
This is the second in a two-part series that considers the role and status of the millennial demographic in the future of the wine business. You can read Part I here: “Millennials We Need You”
3 Ninja Moves to Maintain Sanity – and Your Balance – When Away from Home
Let’s face it. For a lot of us, travel is one of those things that really move the needle of our work lives. We travel to make an impact. We travel to expand our professional reach but travel is also one of those things that throws us off balance. Big time.
Millennials We Need You!
If you have tuned in to any wine news over the past weeks and months, there exists a heightened level of concern around the lack of engagement, consumption and overall interest by the millennial demographic with the wine category.
When It Actually IS About You: How to Prioritize Self-Care
Self care is a thing that, as we can all attest, way too often gets pushed far down the to-do list, in lieu of work things and family things and just about everything but self-things.
How To Collaborate - Even When You're Not The Boss
Team work can be a great way to get things done in life, but how do you collaborate at work when you don’t feel empowered to initiate it, or when you aren’t leading a chain of command?
Swings and Roundabouts – 2018 Thanks and Beck’s Word of the Year
As Cathy aptly wrote last week when she suggested we consider a “word of the year,” my inner hare set off in a leap of ideas, thoughts, musings and considerations. Pen in hand, I furiously scrawled all indecipherable manner of words – commitment, transparency, ethics, progress, non-judgment. But I landed on a word that jolted me out of my seat at the recent Wine2Wine conference in Verona.
Surviving the Festive Season When It’s “Your Job” To Drink
Moderation? Ha! When you are being paid to grow, produce, promote, sell and market a product that soaks the Holiday season, navigating a life with a little more balance and less booze can be nigh impossible.
The Very Best Benefit of Mindfulness is the One We Need Most Right Now
Of all the gifts of mindfulness, drishti is at the top of my personal list of favorite benefits.
Balancing Mind and Body on the Road – 5 Ways to Keep You Motivated
Spare time and physical exercise can be an implausible pairing when traveling for work. Disruptors such as a unfamiliar hotel surroundings, sleep interruption, time zone changes and jetlag add weight to pressing deadlines, while family commitments don’t stay behind when you leave home.
When your Heart is Out of Balance: Our Community’s Responses, and How to Turn Aama to Agni
Last week’s post on the latest findings of the SevenFifty Daily gender study in wine certainly stirred the pot, and this week we wanted to pause and spotlight the community’s responses.
“My Hair Hurts,” Or, How to Drink like a French Woman
There are so many books out there telling us how all French women are slim and beautiful, with chic style, look ten years younger than their age, have perfect children and great sex lives, etc., etc.
My “Wellness Hack” for Smoothing Out the Frazzles
September!
There’s just nothing like it, particularly for those of us experiencing the intensity and rigor of harvest. In the wine growing and winemaking worlds of the northern hemisphere, this is your busy season and the season that demands inventive “wellness hacks,” as Beck et al so helpfully outlined last week.
Secret Weapons for Maintaining Wellness in the Wine Industry
Last week, Beck and I had the tremendous pleasure to join Hannah Wallace (who we’ve featured previously in the Tribe) and Katherine Cole in at the OPB public broadcasting studios in Portland, Oregon. <<click image to read more>>
What Happens at TEXSOM does NOT Stay at TEXSOM
Such was the opening decree from Master Sommelier Devon Broglie before the opening tasting session of this year’s TEXSOM conference—a firm but friendly reminder to those in attendance to be aware of their behavior and the increasing scrutiny we are all under.. <<Click image to read more>>
Stronger Together: Building Up the Tribe, An International Perspective
Fresh off the heels of the Bâtonnage Forum, when so many of us from all parts of the industry came together, we thought it would be interesting this week to offer an international perspective on “building up the tribe.” <<click image to read more >>
The Critical Need for Personal Commitment
Last Saturday I had the tremendous honor to offer closing comments at the first-ever Bâtonnage Forum, the sold-out, gritty, stir-the-lees conference in Napa that was convened by the indomitable Stevie Stacionis and her team.. <<click image to read more>>
3 Tactics To Help Navigate Times of Change
Change and growth are intrinsic to a healthy career trajectory.
However in a small and tight-knit industry like wine, where "success" may be judged based on technical knowledge, networks, connections and tenure, maintaining your sense of self through transition can be tough.
3 Tools To Boost Your Practice Right Now
“Practice.”
We use that word a lot when it comes to yoga and meditation and mindfulness, and here’s one of my favorite parts of it all: there are lots of ways to practice. <<click on the image to read more>>
5 Hacks to Help Your Digestion While Traveling
Life on the road with relentless days and weeks of entertainment, client hospitality and multi course meals can leave you feeling sluggish and your metabolism just plain stuck. So here are five easy hacks to help your digestion stay ahead of your schedule. <<click image to read more>>