The BrightMind Bulletin

Every small business is built on trust, hard work, and the ability to show up under pressure.
Sound familiar? That’s exactly how veterans operate.

Too often, owners overlook veterans because they assume hiring one means adapting the whole company to military structure. In reality, veterans already ...

Corporate America spends billions every year trying to teach employees what veterans already live by instinct: resilience under pressure, mission focus, team loyalty, and emotional control in high-stress environments. Yet, despite those strengths, veterans remain underrepresented in leadership pipel...

As a veteran, your view of life, work, and leadership is shaped by a training system built for the possibility of the ultimate sacrifice, yet many of us never faced that moment directly. We prepared for war, assumed roles of authority, accepted discipline and mission-focus. Then we came home, or shi...

There are events you attend because you have to, and then there are those that remind you why you served.
Friday’s Veterans Day Ceremony at Lasdon Park in Westchester was one of the good ones.

County Executive Ken Jenkins and Veterans Service Agency Director Joshua Gaccione led the day with sincerit...

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There’s a certain rhythm to late autumn. The air sharpens. The days get shorter. Somewhere between the first frost and the last leaf pickup, the house starts talking. Not out loud, but in that quiet, accusing way houses do. The gutters whisper for attention. The shed leans just enough to remind you ...

 How a Lifetime of Structure, Service, and Self-Discipline Became a System for Peace

I didn’t realize how much of my life had been defined by structure until I started looking back at it through the lens of Emotional Infrastructure.
For me, structure has always been more than organization — it’s bee...

If Social-Emotional Learning (SEL) feels abstract, here’s a concrete, plain-English way to make it usable in everyday life. Build & Block is an example of an SEL methodology that helps you steady yourself, say what’s true, and move conversations toward a next step; at home, at work, and in your comm...

If your team is smart but stuck; circling decisions, relitigating handoffs, or shipping late; the problem often isn’t expertise. It’s coordination under pressure. Social-Emotional Learning (SEL) gives you the missing layer: everyday people skills that keep standards high while lowering friction. In ...