What Would Lisa Suennen Say?
It’s Monday, and let’s face it, we all need a good laugh. Welcome to the newest chronic illness and it’s cure. This struck me as so funny because I have actually talked about this “syndrome” before seeing the skit. God save us from Taylor Swift. Good luck with Monday…it’s a short week! httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PAhAz7JU0dg
The American Heart Association has declared this coming Wednesday, November 5th National Healthy Eating Day. On this day you are supposed to we encourage eat only foods and beverages that are high in nutrients and low in sugar, sodium and saturated and trans fats. And it’s good timing for a day like this if you are only planning on having only one. Thanksgiving is just around the corner and the twelve days of Christmas Cookies will soon follow. That gives you a minimum of 13 National Crappy Eating Days, all sanctioned and promoted by community, religion and our food and beverage industry.
So a bit of a lapse in posts for me as I spent a luxurious few weeks vacationing. It’s amazing how fast that buzz can wear off as the world shoots you out of a cannon and back into your desk chair. I figured I would ease back into the blog with something light-hearted, so […]
Hello All, I decided not to lug my laptop on vacation, as it is hard to type with a cocktail in one hand and a guidebook in the other. Thus, I am leaving you with a terrific segment I recently saw on Last Week Tonight with John Oliver. John Oliver, you may recall, was a […]
Last week HBO aired the first episode of a new TV series called Silicon Valley. I have seen a fair amount of formal and casual review on the show including a heated debate of whether it’s funny or not and whether it is more of a satire or closer to a reality show. A few […]
As we approach the end of March, which is officially National Nutrition Month, I thought I would pass along a note from those who clearly didn’t get the memo: Dunkin Donuts has announced in March that they are getting ready to fill the void that has stunted efforts at world peace by launching marshmallow Peeps-encrusted […]
I’ve been traveling a lot the last few weeks and so have had ample opportunity to read questionable magazines that I pick up in lieu of reading things that will make me smarter. People Magazine is definitely a brain cell killer, although one of my faves. Rolling Stone has the occasional really smart article, but […]
I am clearly on a digital health kick, blog-wise, as I look back on my last few posts. Having spent time at both CES and the JP Morgan Healthcare conference, where digital health was a hot topic, it seems that the subsector is definitely having its day in the sun. I was particularly honored to […]
Well, it’s that time of year again, nearly the holidays. Whether you are more of a Hanukkah person or prefer Kwanzaa, all the good songs come out of the Christmas tradition, and so that’s where I have to go for material. Over the past few years I have written such holiday classics as: The 12 […]
I figured Thanksgiving was the perfect time for this clip from 1973’s movie Sleeper. For those of you who missed it because you were born after the invention of the iPhone, Sleeper is aa Woody Allen movie where the main character is the owner of the Happy Carrot Health-Food store; he is cryogenically frozen and […]
Lisa Suennen is a venture capital investor and the managing partner of Venture Valkyrie, LLC, which publishes the Venture Valkyrie blog and co-produces the Tech Tonics podcast. She is also co-founder of CSweetener, a women's healthcare mentoring organization.