It’s Wednesday and your week might be dragging. But cheer up and get excited because TEDxNavesink: 2015 Accelerators is happening this Saturday! This may be the first TEDx event you are attending or maybe the second or third. Either way, you’ll want to make sure this is your best TEDx event yet. What do you […]
Imagine moving more than 3,000 miles away from home to live in a different country and learning to make a new place feel like home. For some, this might be an exhilarating thought. But for others, it may seem nerve wracking. For Philip Murphy and his family, this wasn’t just a thought, it was an […]
Funny man Vinnie Brand started his career by opening up a flower shop. But the life of a florist wasn’t cutting it for Vinnie. Maybe it was the painstaking task of creating floral arrangements. Or maybe it was the pollen. (We promise we’re not playing an April Fool’s joke on you!) One thing was clear; […]
“World’s Strongest Woman” and “World Champion” are just a couple of the titles Dr. Karyn Marshall has earned over the years as a competitive weightlifter. But back when she started lifting, women’s competitive weightlifting was unheard of. Weightlifting competitions were for men only. This did not stop Karyn from pursuing her passion and she lifted […]
If there was a competition for procrastination, I would take first place, hands down. I put most things off until the last possible minute, like the time I started a six-page paper an hour and a half before it was due. Luckily for me, I didn’t buckle under the pressure. I handed in the paper […]
A shy girl learns to break out of her shell and make new friends. Parents exercise daily trying to set healthy examples for their children. Cancer survivors regain strength and work to get back into everyday life. These are just some of the reasons Linda Ambis loves working at the Community YMCA. Linda is the […]
Most watch an influential documentary and are inspired for hours, maybe even days, wondering how to turn the knowledge they’ve learned into action. But how does one start to create change? Michele Mitchell, co-founder of Film at 11, and her team build interactive communities around the social issues their documentaries call attention to. The communities, […]
To many, a baseball cap is a symbol of America’s pastime. For most, baseball is just that—a pastime. But for some, it’s much more. For Stan Green, it’s a passion that he has been lucky enough to use in his career as an anthropologist. Stan shared his love for baseball with the audience of TEDxNavesink […]
