As the Holiday season hits, Beck shares her five stand-by supplements to help with digestion and wellness.
All in Stress Management
3 Bite-Size Ways to Beat the Overwhelm of Long-Haul Travel
Twenty three hours. That was my door-to-door travel time this past week for a work trip, from my home in Atlanta to my final destination city of Yinchuan, China. How do you maintain balance during an experience like that? I think there’s a beginning, a middle and an end to it. Here’s how it looked for me.
Pros, Cons and the Space in Between: Find Your Balance on the Road
It’s a reality of our business, maybe more in the last quarter of the year than at any other time. Even if work-related travel isn’t on your agenda for the next twelve weeks, here are a few ways to find the in-between and balance to keep it together.
Announcing ABG on the Cushion: A Meditation Study for Busy Wine Professionals
This week we are launching ABG’s first meditation module, geared specifically toward colleagues and friends in the wine industry and hope that you can join us.
8 Health Lessons I Learned from a Traditional Chinese Medicine Practitioner
Over the course of his career, bay area TCM practitioner Dr Benjamin Yang has developed his own eight guiding principles which he believes will promote a long and happy quality of life, and it is a pleasure to share them here:
How to Wine, Dine and Stay Fit: Special Guest Post by Tim Liu
We hand over the keyboard to Tim Liu - fitness and nutrition coach to share his insights and experience on how to manage a life of wining, dining, and life on the road, Enjoy!
The “Hack” that May Actually Get Meditation to Work for You!
A hack I learned from Lisa Sherman, a genius teacher in Asheville, North Carolina. She called it a “hack,” to calm the flurry of your thoughts as you sit down to meditate. It gets you over that hump of frustration, thinking your mind is too busy to ever be any “good” at meditating.
A Personal Account of Caring for A Loved One Struggling with Alcoholism
In the first of the monthly guest post series, ABG Tribe member Kimberly Charles shares her personal story on caring for a loved one struggling with alcoholism.
5 Ways to Catch Joy
It’s officially summer here in the northern hemisphere and boy, have I fallen hard for it this year. More sunshine. Slower pace. More joy. Sign. Me. Up.
Right?
But here’s the thing: for as laid-back and casual as the summer ideal is, the reality for most of us is probably a lot more business-as-usual, which means catch-as-catch-can.
The Magic of Planting the Seeds: A Letter from Vinitaly
It’s the most important trade event for anyone concerned with Italian wine, and Beck and I have been regular attendees for several years now. This time it was different, at least for me…
6 Tips to Managing Sickness while Traveling Or, How to Not Be Sneezy Dwarf!
Traveling for work is stressful enough, with its time away from family and friends, constant wining and dining, time zones, hotel rooms and another multi-course dinner. But there’s nothing WORSE than getting sick on top of all of that.
How to Find the Time (and the Space)
Finding time is one thing, when it's possible -- easily so -- to spend every waking hour on work projects, and every other waking hour (ahem) on family or social commitments.
Can we also talk about finding space?
What the Dalai Lama Doesn’t Understand
Imagine if you got to witness the Dalai Lama’s first visit to the United States. Here’s a little of what you would have seen, if you could transport yourself back a few decades…
You Said Yes!! A Balanced Glass Comes to Vinitaly
So we asked you, any interest in an ABG meet-up during Vinitaly? You said Yes.
NO-one has time for meditation during VinItaly, but that is EXACTLY why we are convening this group.
Men (and Women!) At Work – The 2019 Australian Vintage Begins
Arguably the most stressful time of the year, this week we check in with a bunch of Australian winemakers to hear what is in their tool-box to help cope with the manic months that are “vintage.”
Just When You Thought No One Was Looking…
This week, between a super quick trip to wine country and a full slate of tastings, email threads and meetings IRL, I intentionally sought out efforts by colleagues and friends who prioritize wellness in their lives.
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.
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.
Looking Ahead to 2019: Our Word of the Year, Part 1
Beck and I are, basically, polar opposites. Seriously. Most of the time, I’m the tortoise to her hare. The Virgo to her Aquarius. The bullet points to her mind map. The how-to to her why-not. It’s a wonder that anything ever gets done around here.
What Are You Holding On To? Four Breath Techniques to Help Let It Go
Stressful situations can all trigger blood pressure to rise, muscles to tighten, and likely cause you to hold your breath as your sympathetic nervous system kicks in, and your body prepares for “fight or flight”. So stop holding your breath and rty thee techniques.