by Mark Edge | Mar 25, 2026 | Emotional Health, Employee Productivity, Spiritual Health
How would you like to play for one of the top college basketball teams in the country, but only score a single point a game? That’s Sarah Graves. She suits up for the Texas Longhorns women’s basketball team, the number one seed in their NCAA tournament bracket. If you...
by Mark Edge | Mar 20, 2026 | Emotional Health, Employee Productivity, Spiritual Health
What if I told you a hard-nosed sports writer could teach us all about unconditional love? I wouldn’t have believed it either. But that’s exactly what happened. Picture this: Mitch, a young reporter in the Midwest, had a close bond with his old college professor....
by Mark Edge | Mar 9, 2026 | Emotional Health, Employee Productivity
By all appearances, Paul Anka was washed up. The Taylor Swift of his period, Paul was an exceptional songwriter and singer who hit stardom in his mid-teens. He became world famous. Married a beautiful French model. But in his 20s, the Beatles came to America. They...
by Mark Edge | Mar 4, 2026 | Emotional Health, Employee Productivity
What would you do if you’d had enough? Alysa Liu retired at 16. She’d had enough of figure skating. Arthur Liu fled China after the Tiananmen Square protests, became a U.S. lawyer, married, and had four children. Alysa, born August 8, 2005, became the youngest...
by Mark Edge | Feb 18, 2026 | Employee Productivity
How many people do you know who love to give speeches? Let me tell you a story. Picture a man pacing nervously, back and forth. He runs into a woman who says, “You always get nervous before you speak?” “No,” he lies, “I never do.” She asks, “In that case, what are...
by Mark Edge | Feb 13, 2026 | Emotional Health, Employee Productivity, Spiritual Health
It’s Super Bowl Sunday, but let’s go back to a college football field. Kent Waldrep, a halfback for TCU, takes the ball on a sweep. Four defenders crash into him. He hits the ground and instantly knows something is wrong. He can’t move—paralyzed from the neck down....
