Just in time for the Holidays, beck finds her latest discovery in alcohol free offerings.
3 Ways to Play It Up This Season
This week, Cathy takes a break from the daily grind to find time to play!
Avoiding Overindulgence – My Six Favorite ABG Reads to Help Navigate the Holidays.
As the Holiday season looms, Beck looks back on her six favorite ABG reads to help manage the season of giving.
Sober Press Trips: Yes, It’s Possible. Here’s How.
Can you travel and write about wine and not drink? Yes. and this week, guest contributor Rachel DelRocco Terrazas shares a perspective on traveling as a wine writer while sober.
Motivation and the Trick of “I’m Just Gonna…"
Cathy considers the benefits of micro-moves forward to achieve what can seem to be insurmountable goals.
Forgotten How to Business Travel? Hack the Pack with These Five Reminders
As Willie Nelson sang, “On the road again” this week, Beck offers up five tips to help you get back into work travel with a little more ease.
Working in the Wine Industry CAN Be Good for You. But There's a But.
Fresh from our session at @wine2wineverona, Beck recaps the session, “Can Working in the Wine Business be GOOD for You?”
An Honesty Refresh. Thanks To You
In the final days before wine2wine Business Forum, it's honesty that makes the difference, as Cathy explains.
Survey Says! ABG Community Responses for ABG: A Preview
This week, we preview the responses from our short and anonymous survey that will help us present our session at this year’s wine2wine Business Forum.
ABG Goes to wine2wine: Please Weigh In with Your Input!
We are headed to wine2wine and love to hear this community’s thoughts on the question, “can working in the wine business be good for you?.”
Stepping Back in Order to Move Forward – How I Decided to Bet on Myself
Guest contributor Erin Robertson shares her journey from luxury Napa marketing professional to start-up wine brand owner, and the six foundations she had to help make the transition.
Are We There Yet? A Gut Check on our Industry Health and Wellbeing
It is encouraging to hear this community share how their own attitudes to mindfulness, moderation, and mindful drinking are changing for the better; how mental health conversations are becoming a little safer; and how a moderate or abstinence approach to drinking has become more normalized, but as an industry how are we doing?.
Plaster, Primer and Paint - ABG is Out of Office
In the spirit of sabbatical self-care, ABG is on hiatus this week as I’m shifting energy from online to offline, and giving my apartment a fresh coat of paint.
The Antidote to Anxiety, and How to Use It in Our Everyday Lives
For Cathy, this past week was a first for Beck and I, twice over. The “first first” was co-leading a wine tasting in North Carolina, and the “second first” was co-presenting a mini-workshop to teenagers and parents on how to manage anxiety. Know what they had in common? Taking a pause.
What An Old Watch Has Taught Me About Meditation
A sidewalk sale wasn’t exactly the most obvious place to find a new meditation teacher, but it was an old watch that taught Beck new reminders about meditation.
5 Ideas for Balancing Deadlines with Self-Compassion
Deadlines are inescapable. Which, in the interest of our personal mental health, also means that self-compassion is not optional. This week, Cathy Huyghe offers up ways to go a little easier on ourselves if we miss a "D" date:
Why We Retreat - Stepping Back to Move Forward
In business, the concept of ‘retreat’ can carry a negative connotation – a failed deal, not fulfilling obligations, stepping back from the opportunity, and ultimately not winning. But in a mindful practice, where we observe both the human self and the spiritual self, to retreat gives us the opportunity to step back, check in with our emotional state, and rebalance to find the clarity to move forward.
Olympic-Level Self-Talk, and the One Word that Makes All the Difference
The thing about self-talk for Olympians, is that It’s off-camera. It’s subconscious. It isn’t visible, yet there is no action without it. Self-talk has also been with those Olympic athletes their whole lives as well. So what’s the difference between their self-talk and ours?
Setting Boundaries and Other Herculean Feats
The decision of Simone Biles this week at the Tokyo Olympics to withdraw from the US Olympics gymnastics team is, to me, one of the most inspiring feats in athletic history. While her decision may seem incomprehensible to some, may Biles’ decision inspire anyone to say, in their own way, stop.
Expert Tips to Bone Up on Your Bone Health
One in three women and one in five men over the age of 50 will be diagnosed with osteoporosis. An average, 54 million Americans have osteoporosis. This week guest contributor Melanie Young offers practical and insightful advice of helping managing bone health.