by Larae Quy | Jun 3, 2024 | Anxiety, Mental toughness, personal achievement, personal leadership, Positive Mindset, Psychology, self-awareness
A runt of a Shetland pony named Socks helped teach me how to overcome adversity. We lived on a remote cattle ranch in Wyoming, and my grandfather bought him for me when I was four years old. Socks had a hard and dry little heart; he only wanted to terrorize his rider....
by Larae Quy | May 14, 2024 | personal achievement, personal leadership, Positive Mindset, Psychology, self-awareness
For almost twenty-five years, I studied the habits and mindsets of foreign spies assigned to the U.S. to steal American classified and proprietary information. I needed to find ways to get these people to talk to me and understand how they thought about themselves,...
by Larae Quy | Apr 10, 2024 | personal achievement, personal leadership, Positive Mindset, Psychology, self-awareness
COVID, a troubled economy, and a violent rise of nationalism worldwide have ushered in a modern version of the Dark Ages. Doom and gloom scenarios assault us at every turn. There are days when we need to be Pollyanna on steroids to remain positive. Much research has...
by Larae Quy | Mar 16, 2024 | Anxiety, Positive Mindset, Psychology, self-awareness
I grew up with a strong sense of right and wrong, and those values impacted my deepest beliefs about my behavior. They guided my decisions, including the one to become an FBI agent at the age of twenty-five. While values and morals are related, they differ because...
by Larae Quy | Feb 1, 2024 | Mental toughness, personal achievement, personal leadership, Psychology, self-awareness
The four years I worked as the spokesperson for the FBI in Northern California were the busiest of my career. I’d spent the previous twenty years as an agent investigating counterintelligence and espionage cases. But, when I entered the world of public relations, I...
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