Blog – Chrissie DiAngelus

SXSW

April 19, 2024

SXSW RECAPOfficial SXSW 2024 PlaylistAI, Online Safety, & Women's Stories at the Heart of SXSWI came, I saw, I walked. 17 miles. SXSW was a whirlwind adventure and I had the best time. I attended a number of sessions within various tracks and the themes centered on AI (no surprise...

Coach-In-Training

February 26, 2024

I've started my International Coaching Federation (ICF) certification with Accomplishment Coaching. I'm officially part of their coaching training program and member of ICF. Since working with coaches over the last decade and working in management consulting (with a focus on change and adoption), coaching work has resonated with me. I'm...

Chrissie at SXSW

February 24, 2024

I'm thrilled to share that I'll be a mentor at this year's SXSW conference! I'll be headed to Austin next month as part of the conference's Workforce track. I've wanted to attend this conference since my days as an artist representative and I'm so honored and grateful for this opportunity...

Live the Questions

June 4, 2023

Since it's been a long time since I posted, I wanted to begin again with a favorite poem of mine. Rainer Maria Rilke's quote from Letters to a Young Poet found me in 1999 when I was overwhelmed and anxious about relationships and my college experience. There was so much...

My Real MVPs of 2020

December 31, 2020

The first and last blog post of 2020. 2021 will bring more writing. A salute to the real MVPs of 2020: The guardian angels. Not pictured yet certainly not to be left out is Grandpop B. Without a doubt, these 4 carried me, us, particularly when we were in the...

An Essay On Personal Growth

May 6, 2019

When we have a seedling, it disrupts dirt as it sprouts and rises. As it grows it will outgrow that egg carton or tiny pot where it started and we repot it. Likewise, when we outgrow clothes, it's easy to see and we pass them along or donate them. Sometimes...

Setbacks, Release, and Getting Unstuck

March 28, 2019

This past month we saw 4 Nor'Easters blow through our region and each one sent schools and offices into a state of panic. (I won't go into a whole rant about how I feel the Philadelphia region is ill-equipped to plan for and handle storms in general, keeping fear at...

Creative Rituals

March 4, 2019

Admittedly as I sit to write this post, I feel like a fraud because I've never been one to actually stick to any sort of ritual or disciplined approach to much of anything. At least not since I was 22. I think I burned myself out in high school and...

On staying curious and how to know when our creative endeavors are finished.

February 12, 2019

Years ago I started a cool abstract ink painting and something about the time, the colors, the shapes, the mystery in it inspired me to labor over it for a very long time. Still, something was missing and I couldn't place what it was. I would walk away and return...

A Girl’s Best Friend

November 26, 2018

About 10 days ago on November 16 we had to do the hardest and bravest thing dog owners do. My precious Boston Terrier, Juliet, at 12 years old, went over the rainbow bridge. After 12 years of barks and the pitter patter of paws, my house is silent. For 8...

Snow Day Survival

January 7, 2018

As I type the entire eastern seaboard is covered in snow. It actually has some new name I've never heard before - snow bomb cyclone - something like that. I couldn't even follow my meteorologists last night when they tried explaining it all. It's a massive winter storm complete with...

Winter Soltice

December 21, 2017

A friend shared this poem on the Winter Solstice and I want to share it here as well. “And so the Shortest Day came and the year died And everywhere down the centuries of the snow-white world Came people singing, dancing, To drive the dark away. They lighted candles in...

Getting Somewhere