When facing an out-of-control situation, how many times have you thought, “I have no idea what to do next?” After the first hurricane passed, I was one of many victims amid the rubble. I had no idea what would come next. I sure wasn’t thinking strategically! As of the writing of this post, we are in the midst of a global pandemic and half the world’s population is under quarantine, uncertain when the threat will diminish. It’s times like these when many of us may think that, with nowhere to go, … [Read more...] about Leadership in a Global Pandemic and Other “Category 5”-level Crises

...Each passing day in the hurricane’s aftermath unfolded slowly as a path was cleared through the rubble. I had to figure out my next moves. The ports were destroyed, businesses shuttered, airports in tatters, no one was getting around or off the island without difficulty. Amid the destruction, the wagons that could circle to make our lives easier were stuck offshore and we couldn’t get anywhere easily. Somehow, I had to carry on. Sailors know that at sea, before a storm’s arrival, they need … [Read more...] about Choose a Path through the Rubble of the Pandemic

...The storm took away our ability to reach the outside world – no cell phones, no internet, no way, even, to reach my friends down the road. I had no plan for my family abroad to learn if I’d survived. The only people on whom I could rely were the strangers who lived around my immediate neighborhood. Since the earliest explorers went to sea, the communications protocol for mariners is “call and response” – every communication that is made is acknowledged as received and understood. Lives may … [Read more...] about Use Channel 16 in a Global Pandemic and Other Crises

...A monster storm was raging overhead as I realized that I was trapped. I had no idea how I was going to be rescued. My friends were unreachable and unlikely to come looking for me. I didn’t know my neighbors. I was alone; I had made no survival plan. It was the most traumatic event of my life – large communities of friends, thousands of social media connections, and none of them could come for me... According to recent landmark studies, 40% of our population has no one to talk to! I … [Read more...] about Build Your Tribe to Weather the Pandemic and Any Other “Storm”

  A 2-Time Category 5 hurricane survivor and serial entrepreneur shares her experiences and life lessons learned to help us all weather the extreme situations in our lives...Emerging from the wind coffin that had buried me in the throes of the most powerful storm ever to strike the Atlantic Basin, to a post-apocalyptic landscape, I had no idea what would come of me. I’d made some significant mistakes and I didn’t know how I would find a solid foundation to regroup. I’d gone into the … [Read more...] about Managing the Catastrophe of a Global Pandemic

...So, there I was alone as the most powerful storm ever to strike the Atlantic Basin was headed my way. I was feeling confident, complacent really. I’ve been a professional rescuer, a navigator of businesses, boats and people, guiding them to safely reach their destinations for a couple of decades. I had done all I could to prepare and it would soon be over...famous last words… Read more … [Read more...] about Create Your Float Plan for a Global Pandemic