The Casey Lartigue Show!

I met with several enthusiastic volunteers helping us with the planning of the TNKR speech contest planned for February 28. I often say that I can't do this without volunteers, and I sincerely mean it. By myself, I couldn't sell candy in an elementary school without going bankrupt. So I need smart folks willing to help out to make things happen. Special thanks to my TNKR co-director Lee Eunkoo for coming out (again) on a Saturday afternoon. Our TNKR-FAN coaches  Fiona Fong  and  Fatima Nicholson  and TNKR tutor  Gabrielle Wray  for joining. The meeting was inspired by  Gabrielle  asking how she could help with the speech contest. So I confirmed she could make it, then held a meeting! Thank you also to  Michael Buckalew , Stephen Choi, Jessiica Steffl,  Hyewon Hwang , and  Charles Costello  for showing up and for signing up to take on various tasks. Not even Eunkoo and I agreed on everything. It was good brainstorming, but with...

Dearest Casey, During your current trip to the USA to give a series of speeches in New York, D.C., Tennessee and California, you were delightfully blindsided by a job offer that would pay you more than three times as much as you are now making in South Korea. A few years ago, after a health scare, you began reflecting on your life and decided that you would only do the things that you wanted to do. People who try to pressure you to do things you don’t want to do have a 100% chance of failing. As you tell such people: "I don’t have to eat everything put on my plate.” People who give advice you reject are told: "I promise, I won’t stop you from taking your own advice.” You value every moment that you are alive, and will enjoy the rest of your life on your own terms. For more than two years, you have been focused on helping North Korean refugees , typically using your own funds. You are lucky that Freedom Factory and the Atlas Network both came through with suppo...