by Jeri Quinn | May 13, 2019 | Jeri's Travels
Did your parents tell you all the time you were growing up, “Don’t Talk to Strangers”? Mine did. They wanted to keep me safe. They wanted to let me know that I couldn’t trust every adult. Yet talking to people you don’t know is a necessary skill once we become adults,...
by Jeri Quinn | May 11, 2019 | Jeri's Travels
Hey, I’ve lived a long time and I’ve developed lots of habits. In our brains habits are formed when the same neural pathways are used over and over. After a while they become frictionless 6-lane highways that are easy to take because they are comfortable and the brain...
by Jeri Quinn | May 9, 2019 | Jeri's Travels
The most remarkable thing in Sydney, Australia, is the Sydney Opera House. I’ve taken a tour plus seen a theater performance and a ballet there during my week’s stay here. There was a competition for architects to draw up plans for it. A young Danish architect named...
by Jeri Quinn | May 6, 2019 | Jeri's Travels
I mentioned in my last blog that my identity is shifting to being a ‘continuous multi-country traveler’, rather than an ‘occasional traveler focused on singular destinations’. For me to really embrace that change I need to believe that that is who I am now. One thing...
by Jeri Quinn | May 2, 2019 | Jeri's Travels
(or Steer Your Own Sailboat Through the Journey of Change) I traveled to Australia from New Zealand. It was only a four-hour flight. But it was momentous for me. You see I’ve traveled a few times in my life, around the world as a student, with my family to...
by Jeri Quinn | Apr 30, 2019 | Jeri's Travels
Earlier this week I met up with a fellow Conversational Intelligence coach who lives in New Zealand. I had reached out to her when I knew the dates I’d be there. She welcomed me even though we had never met, picked me up from the ferry (She lives on the island of...
