This week we’re featuring a series of five conversations between Rewire Me founder Rose Caiola and Krishna Pendyala, life coach and author of Beyond the PIG and the APE. Below is the fourth installment of the series. ROSE: I love the way you lay out the three levels of choice in your book, Beyond the PIG and the APE: unaware,…
This week we’re featuring a series of five conversations between Rewire Me founder Rose Caiola and Krishna Pendyala, life coach and author of Beyond the PIG and the APE. Below is the third installment of the series. ROSE: In your book, Beyond the PIG and the APE, you write about distinguishing between intuition and instinct. That can be very tricky.…
This week we’re featuring a series of five conversations between Rewire Me founder Rose Caiola and Krishna Pendyala, life coach and author of Beyond the PIG and the APE. Below is the second installment of the series. ROSE: I wanted to ask about the youthful idealism that you bring up in your book, Beyond the PIG and the APE. KRISHNA:…
I first encountered Krishna Pendyala when my real estate company hired a financial firm from Pittsburgh to assist in money management. During a “getting to know you” meeting, I told them about Rewire Me and they told me about Krishna, their COO at that time, who is also a life coach with unique insights into the human condition. Krishna and…
Just because I rely on two smartphones doesn’t mean I like them. My tween daughter doesn’t even want one, and I’m thrilled about that. So when a friend sent me the link to Louis C.K.’s appearance on Conan O’Brien’s show (see below) that’s been all over the Web since Thursday night, of course I clicked “play.” And I got more than…
A couple of weeks ago I told you about my commitment to pause in a moment of gratitude before one meal each day. As of last week I hadn’t been very successful in achieving this goal; I was feeling some inner resistance. But today I’m proud to report that I’m definitely making progress. Why the turnaround? Good timing had something…
Last week I told you about my personal challenge to pause at the beginning of one meal each day in a moment of meditation or gratitude before eating. I’m a little embarrassed to admit that I haven’t been very successful so far in achieving that goal. I thought it would be easy, but I’m having difficulty remembering to do it!…
I was raised by Italian-American parents. At our house, every Sunday dinner was a multi-course extravaganza. Family and neighbors and friends sat down to a table laden with pasta, meatballs, chicken, salad, vegetables…. Meals at our house were all about overabundance, just as in all the popular movies where the Italian mother puts food on the table and hollers, “Mangia!” I…
If you’ve been visiting Rewire Me regularly, you know we’ve been focusing on stress this month. As it happens, I’ve had a very busy month, filled with hosting a dinner party for 30 people and a workshop for 15, along with the responsibilities of my job, being a mom, and the usual household upkeep. Drawing from the articles we’ve been…
