Whenever I interview someone - or am being briefed by a client for whom I'm writing a speech - I always ask, "What are you reading?" It helps to know ...
Julia Moulden | Posted 04.21.2009 | Living
If you're wondering what a "New Radical" is, it's someone who's found a way to put the skills acquired in their career to work on some of the world's greatest challenges.
Julia Moulden | Posted 04.14.2009 | Living
I wonder if a woman who once raced motorcycles ever imagined herself running an ambulance service in the heart of Africa... Yet that's just what Andre...
Julia Moulden | Posted 03.24.2009 | Living
With all the bad news about, you may feel like pulling the covers up over your head and waiting until it's over. That thought has certainly crossed my...
Julia Moulden | Posted 03.03.2009 | Living
Blame it on the Year of the Ox - or the year of hugs and kisses, "ox", as I'm calling it. What got me started was seeing how so many commentators are...
Julia Moulden | Posted 02.02.2009 | Living
This was originally published on November 8th, 2008. President-elect Barack Obama has captured the world's imagination. He has helped us believe that...
Julia Moulden | Posted 01.27.2009 | Living
[This is a refreshed repeat of one of Julia's most popular posts.] When I was writing my book about New Radicals (that is, people like you and me who...
Julia Moulden | Posted 01.13.2009 | Living
It's that time of year again. But this holiday season feels different, doesn't it? Lots of people are shifting their gift giving practices so that the...
Julia Moulden | Posted 01.06.2009 | Living
Inspiration doesn't only come when we step away from our normal routine, yet often this is the case. Suzanne Seggerman had been a documentary filmmake...
Julia Moulden | Posted 12.23.2008 | Living
On Monday, I spoke at the Social Entrepreneurship Summit held at the MaRS Centre in Toronto. Although, as the name suggests, people came to learn abou...
Julia Moulden | Posted 12.16.2008 | Living
The response to last week's post made me realize it's time to write about New Radical Innovators (New Radicals are people like you and me who've found...
Julia Moulden | Posted 12.09.2008 | Living
Let's not wait for one man to save the world. Let's use the exuberant energy of his triumph to propel each of us forward.
Julia Moulden | Posted 12.02.2008 | Living
"Nana, what else can you teach me?" This is what my niece whispered into my mother's ear as she drifted off to sleep after a busy day learning what u...
Julia Moulden | Posted 11.25.2008 | Living
Don Stannard-Friel didn't have to go far to create a New Radical role for himself. Don is a professor of sociology and anthropology at Notre Dame de N...
Julia Moulden | Posted 11.18.2008 | Business
What to make of the screaming financial headlines of recent weeks? Where does your mind go when you read the coverage? What do you worry and wonder ab...
Julia Moulden | Posted 11.04.2008 | Living
How was your week? Mine started off with a client meeting, talking with a CEO about what he wanted to see in a speech I'm writing for him. We had a l...
Julia Moulden | Posted 09.09.2008 | Living
In the immortal title of his bestseller, Steal This Book, Abbie Hoffman summed up the radicals of the 1960s. That era was about challenging the establ...
Julia Moulden | Posted 03.28.2008 | Living
I was at a dinner party in a lovely home in an upscale Toronto neighborhood. Around the table, twelve successful professionals were gathered, includin...
Julia Moulden | Posted 05.05.2009 | Living