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Applaud Yourself

Posted by David Wallace on April 13, 2021

Feeling good. This is one of my favorite places to be. Here’s a story that shows how you can take yourself to a Feel-Good Place every day. Taking Yourself to a Feel-Good Place Elevator door opens. The fellow inside looks me straight in the eye. I can’t break his stare. He is shamelessly flirting. The […]

Tags: applause, bull terrier, cowgirl, global cowgirl, personal presence, Public speaking, Texas
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Freedom from Bigotry Bought for a Penny

Posted by David Wallace on February 22, 2021

America has been brought low by its racism and bigotry against people of color. Since this is Black History Month, I want to share this story about our nation’s historical racism against Blacks. Freedom from Bigotry Bought for a Penny The lowly penny. What can this modest coin buy you? At three years old, it […]

Tags: . politics, black history month, black lives matter, racism
Posted in blog, Politics, Politics, Racism, Stories of Personal Victory, storytelling

Successful Listeners

Posted by David Wallace on February 15, 2021

Being Interviewed by Barbara Walters I was once interviewed by Barbara Walters. Not because I was famous. It was for a job as her off-air reporter and editorial producer. I’d be booking interviews, doing research, and helping write questions for Barbara’s news interviews. I confess, I wanted to work on her celebrity specials, but I […]

Tags: Barbara Walters, cowgirl, global cowgirl, media training, personal communication, Public speaking, Texas
Posted in blog, Celebrities, Personal Presence, Public Speaking, storytelling, Voice Coaching

Whoopi Goldberg and Kindness

Posted by David Wallace on February 8, 2021

Whoopi’s Moment of Excellent Kindness Whoopi Goldberg doesn’t know me, but I feel an unbreakable connection to her because she taught me the power of kindness. Wanna big hug from rejection? Be a broadcast producer getting sound bites from famous folks at a glitzy do. Understandably, the relationship between the press and famous somebodies is […]

Tags: celebrities, cowgirl, Texas, whoopi goldberg
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“I’m taking you to a place beyond your imagination.”

Posted by David Wallace on February 1, 2021

Music and the Heart “Come with me, young lady. I’m taking you to a place beyond your imagination.” There, in the middle of a dark room, is a cozy chair swaddled in a single beam of light. Back in the shadows is the fuzzy outline of something inanimate giving off the whiff of a faint […]

Tags: cowgirl, mcintosh labs, storytelling, Texas
Posted in blog, Music and Technology, storytelling

Misplaced eyes. Craters for cheekbones. Twisted nose.

Posted by David Wallace on January 22, 2021

Cherish Your Imperfections Olivia’s face is perfection. Flawless features and buttery skin. Quite a change from the face I’d seen months earlier. Back then, Olivia’s face looked like it had been put through a food processor. Misplaced eyes. Craters instead of cheekbones. Twisted nose. An out-of-kilter, lopsided mouth swollen around bunched, protruding teeth. Neither machine […]

Tags: cowgirl, maxillofacial, medical procedures, personal victory, plastic surgery, Texas
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Hank the Husky

Posted by David Wallace on January 15, 2021

Hank the Husky If ever a creature in this life was wronged it was Hank. I don’t know how old he was, but he had moss growing on his bushy Husky fur from being left out in the rain and snow of brutal New York winters without shelter of any kind. He was fenced in […]

Posted in Animal stories, blog, Stories of Personal Victory, storytelling

Surefire Way to Lift Your Spirits in Bad Times

Posted by David Wallace on January 11, 2021

Surefire Way to Lift Your Spirits Ribs and ice cream. That’s what Jessie and her daughter were having for their evening meal…again. But no amount of “food therapy” was helping to get them off the gerbil wheel of hell they were on because of a family problem that seemed to have no end in sight. […]

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Fountain of Youth

Posted by David Wallace on January 4, 2021

“Step right up. Take a dip in the Fountain of Youth. Lie about your age. Add five years!” bbbbOnce you pass the halcyon age of thirty-five, that Golden Mean in time when we women are at our dewiest and sexiest, you start wishing clocks traveled backwards. You no longer yearn to reach a future time […]

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Key to Knowing Yourself

Posted by David Wallace on December 28, 2020

I want to get to you and everyone in the Global Cowgirl community. So, from time to time, I’m going to ask you a question that will let me get to know you…and may let you get to know yourself a bit better. As it’s New Year’s, a time when many of us take stock […]