Laine Laroche on the Project Bring Me to Life Podcast

Laine Laroche helps people find and live their life’s purpose. As a Hitchhiker and Train Hopper turned Silicon Valley Executive, Laine uses her street smarts and business skills to turn divine purpose into a sustainable and lucrative path.

Making Cities Smarter Than Their Bankers

The banking
system encircles and ensnares people, buildings and environments,
defining cities, credit-rating some higher, no matter their quality of
life, infrastructure buffers or exposure. This article explores technologies for smart cities to use the system
to better advantage, through more coherent measures, innovation policies
and incentives for livability.

Mythology of Business Part 2: The Dark Side

Despite the exciting creative possibilities posed by new
media, the danger presented
by the presence of myth in modern media is paramount, and must be considered
outside the mythic framework of industry, which reduces the
material world to a matrix of profit and risk.

Mythology of Business Part 1: The Veil of Ignorance

Myth is so entrenched in the nature of business
that it is often overlooked within the advertising rhetoric of capitalism, even
if the building of a mythology is the centerpiece of all effective branding.  Myth may be encoded in any medium, but its defining characteristic is its
psychological function.

Crafting Your Business Values

Your work expresses who you are. Your vision is the big picture of
your business and your life. Crafting your values is step one is running a business.

The Iron Law of Fantasy Finance

My economics professors drilled it in: as workers produce more goods and services per hour, their wages must rise. The proof was in the post-World War II data. As output went up, real wages rose, year after year. And then, suddenly, everything changed. The economy was still growing, and the money value of those goods and services had to go somewhere. Clearly workers didn't take that money home. So who did?