Articles by: Hanna Brooks Olsen

Over and over, business professionals, life coaches, dating gurus, and basically all social scientists agree: We give a great deal of currency to confidence. Confidence is compelling.

Regardless of the myriad ups and downs of its actual policy, there's one thing the Obama administration has been lauded for all along: It's ability to speak to young people using their language. Obama's 2008 campaign was one of the smartest, most agile Presidential runs the U.

Though a lot of people don't know his name, plenty of Americans know Pete Souza's images. As the official photographer of White House photographer, Souza's pictures of the First Family and their travels have defined the Obama administration -- but more than that, he's part of a legacy of Presidential photographers who have captured the lives, both public and private, of the leaders of the free world.

[caption id="attachment_12268" align="alignnone" width="620"] Photo by Namphuong Van[/caption] Starting from a young age, author Kim Werker had a story that she told herself, about herself. It all started with a cardboard robot she was making in elementary school that, as she explained in her Creative Mornings Vancouver talk, just wasn't looking the way she wanted it to look.

[caption id="attachment_12149" align="alignnone" width="620"] Image via Flickr[/caption] What's the worst thing you could say to your boss or to a client? What's the one answer that you're pretty sure would get you fired, like, tomorrow?

This weekend, Millions of Americans will gather around televisions and computers to watch one of the biggest spectacles in sports: The Super Bowl. For more than 40 years, the top two teams in the NFL have met to duke it out on the field.

[caption id="attachment_11856" align="alignnone" width="620"] Image via Flickr[/caption] When the term "encore career" was first coined in 2009 by Encore. org CEO and founder Marc Freedman, the idea of a second career -- one that starts later in life and often has a more personally fulfilling mission -- was mostly financially-fueled.

[caption id="attachment_11822" align="alignnone" width="640"] Image via Flickr[/caption] Producer Sarah Koenig has yet to announce a launch date for the second season of Serial, the most-lauded podcast of 2014, but has confirmed that there will definitely be one. Unfortunately, just knowing that there will be another highly-addictive story, told week-by-week, doesn't exactly help fill the silence of your commute or your daily dog walks.