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Okay, so Sunday late night I got back in from roughly two weeks on the road. Now, this wasn’t all work, but there were nine (count ‘em, nine) speeches involved. Trust me, the hard part of my job [...]

There is one thing I never discuss unless directly asked: religion. When I’m speaking, I have to include just the tiniest taste of my Christian background, just because it’s part of the story. [...]

When I was 15, I received my first CD player. It was a Christmas gift from my parents and, for a huge music lover like moi, it was about the greatest thing that ever happened. Within 48 hours, [...]

Is there such a thing as too many friends?   Apparently, Facebook thinks so. Unless it’s a professional page, Facebook limits the total number of friends to 5000; a number I reached about [...]

Most times when I’m booked to speak somewhere, it’s a closed event. This isn’t to be purposefully exclusive…it’s just that there’s usually a limited number of seats. The sponsoring org obviously [...]

Did you watch the first Presidential debate last night? I hope so. Not that I care who you vote for…that’s your choice. But, the more people that watch the debates, the more activity there will [...]

So, last week was the launch of the new and improved www.MarcusEngel.com! Ya know, I guess you should re-vamp your web site every half decade or so. Yeah, it’d been nearly five years since we’d [...]

A few weeks ago, I made the mistake of stating who I was going to vote for. This was in a private conversation. C’mon…I’m not arrogant enough (nor stupid) enough to get into a flaming war about [...]