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Sarah Firisen

Sarah Firisen was born in London, England but has lived in New York for 30 years. Sarah's had a variety of roles over her career, most in and around technology, but the thread through them all has been her passion for helping organizations and their people to deliver on and tell their disruption stories. A strategic, creative innovator and storyteller, Sarah is finishing up a book, The Impromptu Game Plan. This book (and related podcast) explores the career and life stories of people who’ve made pivots in their lives to create more meaningful careers that utilize their strengths and experiences and speak to their passions and values. Email: sfirisen@gmail.com

Website: https://theimpromptugameplan.com/

Ashley Madison hack reveals nothing surprising at all

Posted on Monday, Aug 24, 2015 12:15AMTuesday, June 5, 2018 by Sarah Firisen

by Sarah Firisen Big news: millions of married people, mainly men, are using the Internet to try to cheat on their spouses. The Ashley Madison hack scandal, the data dump of records of 32 million would-be adulterers, is apparently a surprise to some people. Not to me. Ever since I started online dating after my…

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Getting my Jew on

Posted on Monday, Mar 9, 2015 12:25AMFriday, December 8, 2017 by Sarah Firisen

by Sarah Firisen I haven't spent a lot of time in churches over the years, being born a Jew and becoming an atheist as a teenager, it’s not a common hangout place for me. But when I have, weddings, christenings, sitting in the back during mass at various European cathedrals, there’s been a solemn stillness…

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Music to watch girls go by

Posted on Monday, Nov 24, 2014 12:20AMFriday, December 8, 2017 by Sarah Firisen

by Sarah Firisen “The boys watch the girls while the girls watch the boys who watch the girls go by…” so sang Andy Williams in 1967. Boys looking at girls, and then reacting with admiration; what could be more natural? In movie after movie a barrage of wolf whistles following Sofia Loren and Marilyn Monroe…

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Another man’s sandals

Posted on Monday, Jul 28, 2014 12:20AMTuesday, June 5, 2018 by Sarah Firisen

by Sarah Firisen I am Jewish by birth. My family wasn’t particularly religious; we went to synagogue at Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year, and Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement, but not really any other time. My brother and I went through years of Hebrew school, but we came home and ate bacon sandwiches.…

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Protecting the lying liars who lie?

Posted on Monday, Jun 2, 2014 12:30AMFriday, December 8, 2017 by Sarah Firisen

by Sarah Firisen Privacy; Do we have it? If we don’t, should we care? With the news today that the NSA is now collection millions of faces from web images and using face recognition software on them, I think the answer to the first question is clearly, no. But of course, the NSA, at least…

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The stories of our lives

Posted on Monday, Feb 10, 2014 12:20AMFriday, December 8, 2017 by Sarah Firisen

by Sarah Firisen Odds are you’re on Facebook. After all, 1 in 6 people on the planet are on it, why should you be the exception? I think in my immediate circle of friends and family I know one person who isn’t on it at all. I know, I know, we overshare these days; we…

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Oh, the lack of humanity

Posted on Monday, Dec 16, 2013 12:30AMFriday, December 8, 2017 by Sarah Firisen

by Sarah Firisen Maybe I’m just getting old. Having recently turned 45, I realize that what I’m about to write may very well just be an early sign that I’m about to turn into one of those older people who need a young person to help them use their phone/computer/toaster. Despite the fact that I…

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The lament of the online dater

Posted on Monday, Sep 30, 2013 12:10AMFriday, December 8, 2017 by Sarah Firisen

by Sarah Firisen My topic today, online dating Is this really the best way for mating?Is it worth all the pain?The interest I feignIn the men who on my nerves are grating? Was the bar scene so great in its day?Does venue change the games that we play?Is this way really worse?Are the men more…

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Hey, Rick Perry, I am woman, hear me roar

Posted on Monday, Jul 29, 2013 12:10AMFriday, December 8, 2017 by Sarah Firisen

by Sarah Firisen As a woman, I know so much pain Not the least pre-menstrual weight gainMenopause is no funBirthing pain can quite stunAnd we do it and rarely complain Men get to glide right through lifeA failed erection the worst of their strifeWe have the right to refuseBut they still get to chooseWhen it's…

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Sometimes, it’s still hard to be a woman…

Posted on Monday, May 6, 2013 12:05AMFriday, December 8, 2017 by Sarah Firisen

by Sarah Firisen [See Frank Bruni in the New York Times.] Today we are all equal, right?No more damsels and their brave knightI can fight, I can voteChoose on whom I will doteAnd any wage difference is slight But is this the end of the taleOf the fight for the rights of the female?Is there…

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An ode to gay marriage

Posted on Monday, Apr 8, 2013 12:10AMFriday, December 8, 2017 by Sarah Firisen

by Sarah Firisen So who has the right be wed? Who deserves a marital bed?Should just Jack and JillMarry at will?We’ll wait for the ruling with dread But what really here is at stake?Will the value of wedded bliss break?Is it really the caseThat gay weddings debaseThe vows that the rest of us take? Are…

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A plea to our dysfunctional Congress

Posted on Monday, Mar 11, 2013 1:10AMTuesday, February 12, 2019 by Sarah Firisen

Congress, I do hate to pester But this fuckfest that you've named SequesterJust the latest dumb tiffAfter the Fiscal CliffAnd this time the wound will long fester Is it really so much to askThat you stick to the important taskConcentrate on Job OneGet the People's work doneNot just the people in whose money you bask…

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Ode to the undecided voter (or, what on earth are you thinking?)

Posted on Monday, Oct 22, 2012 12:15AMFriday, December 8, 2017 by Sarah Firisen

by Sarah Firisen When a vote carries quite this much weight Should it really all hinge on debate?Was this truly the keyTo help you finally seeA choice that good sense should dictate? Undecided, it's all up to youYou're the one that both parties must wooYou're the one in the pollsThat they court with their soulsMy…

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Mitt’s “proud to be an American” tax rate

Posted on Monday, Aug 27, 2012 12:05AMFriday, December 8, 2017 by Sarah Firisen

by Sarah Firisen There once was a company BainThat Mitt Romney runs from in vainTo prove no active roleIs clearly his goalBut to believe that is really a strain While bailing the Olympic games outThe evidence shows he had cloutBain's full owner it seemsBut no part of their schemesA technicality he says with a pout…

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The Gaffe that roused Blighty

Posted on Monday, Jul 30, 2012 12:15AMFriday, December 8, 2017 by Sarah Firisen

by Sarah Firisen With the Olympics coming to town The British started to frownThe construction, the costThe traffic lane lostOur economy's already so down You know it'll just get rained outThey've done what with the cycling route?And the summer looks glumBecause tourists won't comeIt's a fiasco without a doubt Just as the grumbling built to…

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Keep your hands off my Medicare!

Posted on Monday, Jul 2, 2012 12:10AMFriday, December 8, 2017 by Sarah Firisen

by Sarah Firisen I look up to the heavens in prayer Let Obamacare die now I swearThere's no words to berateThat evil mandateAnd keep your hands right off my Medicare Stop the death panels right now I cryThe government wants me to dieIt's the private insurersWho should be healthcare jurorsOnly corporations won't send this awry…

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WTF in China

Posted on Monday, Jun 4, 2012 12:10AMFriday, December 8, 2017 by Sarah Firisen

by Sarah Firisen I expected China to be different; exotic, challenging, overwhelming in its otherness. But, in many ways, it was depressingly familiar; the mall next to my apartment building had a Gap, an H&M, a Subway and a Baskin Robbins. The New York Pizza restaurant was always at least as busy as the excellent…

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The tale of poor, unloved Mitt Romney

Posted on Monday, Apr 9, 2012 12:25AMFriday, December 8, 2017 by Sarah Firisen

by Sarah Firisen There once was a candidate, Mitt Who was rich, smart, handsome and fitNo extremist hereClearly not much to fearThe perfect choice you'd have to admit He'd been governor of a blue stateBrought in health reform with a mandateModerate through and throughThe job now seemed his dueAfter losing to McCain in '08 With…

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My plea to the GOP

Posted on Monday, Mar 12, 2012 12:30AMFriday, December 8, 2017 by Sarah Firisen

I'm begging you please let this end Decide which of these clowns you will sendJust take your pickFrom Newt, Ron or RickOr Mitt who is able to bend Into whatever candidate that you might needFor he's not met one belief he can't kneadIf one doesn't thrillPerhaps a different one willWhatever it takes to succeed So…

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If I had my own Super PAC…

Posted on Monday, Feb 13, 2012 12:05AMFriday, December 8, 2017 by Sarah Firisen

I'd like to have my own Super PAC That on my behalf could attackOf course any sign of collusionWould be just an illusionI wouldn't tell them how to act I know that no contact's allowedBut what's the harm if I just say out loud“It would so make my dayIf your ads were to sayThat only…

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