Word: yourselfer
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Let's start with your book. You mention that all along you were never selling wine as much as you were selling yourself on the show you created. Sure. Winelibrary.tv was about building personal brand equity. It was a business move. Now, it was totally surrounded by a passion for...
You didn't do any sort of formal training in wine appreciation. Did you sort of teach yourself? I had a big advantage. I grew up in it. The chef that grew up with the grandma who cooks tends to always beat the chef that went to the culinary institute...
You went on Conan O'Brien's show and you had him tasting asparagus and sweaty socks to demonstrate the different tastes of wine; you went on Ellen and you were licking rocks. Was this actually stuff you did yourself? Yeah. When I was 17 or 18 I wanted to...
If you insist on tanning, experts say spray-on glows are much safer than tanning beds. But cancer survivor Jodi Duke takes exception to both. "I have become an advocate for looking at yourself and knowing you are beautiful as you are," she says.
Or, of course, you can train yourself to be optimistic through sheer mental discipline. Ever since psychologist Martin Seligman crafted the phrase "learned optimism" in 1991 and started offering optimism training, there's been a thriving industry in the kind of thought reform that supposedly overcomes negative thinking. You can...