Paula Braun
Live Large and Make a Dent
When it first went on air in 1981, Dr. Ruth Westheimer’s late night talk radio show, Sexually Speaking, defied expectations. The sex and...
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Paula Braun
- Feb 2, 2019
- 3 min
Super Bowl and Cola Wars, I Can't Take It Anymore!
Actually, that's a lie. I'm getting a kick out of watching Coke v. Pepsi unfold as the big game approaches. But I couldn't resist riffing...
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Paula Braun
- Nov 3, 2018
- 2 min
People Who Choose to Lead
Seth Godin’s latest book, This is Marketing, is for people who choose to lead. It’s a blueprint for making change happen in which Godin...
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Paula Braun
- Oct 22, 2018
- 2 min
Love after Loss Heals Our Deepest Wounds
What prevents the darker parts of masculinity from being expressed? That question is at the heart of Dennis Kelly’s one-woman monologue...
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Paula Braun
- Oct 20, 2018
- 2 min
Know Your Worth, Light Up the Darkness
When it was first published in 2017, Angie Thomas’s novel The Hate U Give debuted at the top of the New York Times’s Young Adult Best...
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Paula Braun
- Oct 19, 2018
- 2 min
Start Here, Now
After he was elected in 2014, Ben Sasse emerged as one of the most conservative voices in the US Senate. Full disclosure, based on his...
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Paula Braun
- Oct 11, 2018
- 3 min
Love, Gilda Hits on the Truth
Gilda Radner was the first person offered a role on the original cast of Saturday Night Live. In the film Love, Gilda director Lisa...
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Paula Braun
- Oct 10, 2018
- 2 min
Happy Death Day Grandma
Eighteen years ago my maternal grandmother died of a heart attack. I’m reminded of her death at this time every year, because she died on...
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Paula Braun
- Sep 6, 2018
- 1 min
Jokes are How We Avoid Violence and Other Insights from an Evening With Emo Philips
In public, Emo Philips (a master comedian known for his keen intellect, falsetto voice, and irreverent one-liners) never, ever breaks...
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Paula Braun
- Sep 5, 2018
- 3 min
Seeking Beauty with Bill Cunningham
“The only thing not to give up and to always believe is that ‘he who seeks beauty will find it’". Those are the closing thoughts Bill...
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Paula Braun
- Sep 4, 2018
- 3 min
Life Lessons from Kevin Hart
In the book How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big: Kind of the Story of My Life, Scott Adams, creator of Dilbert, describes...
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Paula Braun
- Sep 3, 2018
- 2 min
Background and Inspiration for Writing This Blog
Most bloggers never make it to 1,000 posts. I created Deeply Authentic as an opportunity to buck the trend. My approach: just start, you...
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