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For decades, Publix has been one of the most important tenants in the shopping centers where it has stores. So, what's driving the company to own the sites?

Experience can influence whether tenants renew, recommend a property, and accept its rents. Research links tenant satisfaction and healthy-building features to measurable commercial outcomes. The next step for executives is to treat Return on Experience, or ROX, as a discipline: invest in purposeful design, then track its effects on revenue, retention, and operating performance.

For too much out-of-home advertising is still being treated as a numbers game: more screens, more impressions, more noise when messaging that appear in the right place, at the right moment, with something relevant to say have proven the most effective, time and time again. This is where ooh! comes in.

Multifamily operators are under pressure to differentiate, many have pet policies but how many have programming for national dog day, ensuring pets and they owns feel appreciated and seen? Given the place pets occupy in many lives, policy needs to extend beyond mere accommodations and insurance.

The most capable carry scars that make them empathetic and adaptable, proving evolution favors the willing.

The path to self-betrayal is paved with a thousand tiny compromises.

Understanding, the beginning of believing, isn't a destination you arrive at through logic; it’s a threshold you step across through experience.

Sleep is not a luxury; it is a biological necessity. As is sleep health equity.

Connections are not something to squeeze into the margins of our existence. When layoffs are taking off at record clip, chips are presented as companions, content for comparison, what we need to flourish is places where mindful connection can happen.

You’re in a competition of one. The goal? Improve on your past performance.

When you shift from striving to attain success to attracting it, opportunities appear with greater clarity and "luck" surfaces unexpectedly.

Impact isn’t reserved for some future state of readiness or achievement—it's built in ordinary days. Small improvements compound. Consistent sharing multiplies.

Growth isn’t always elegant or directional—sometimes it’s chaotic, sometimes it needs pruning, removing weeds inconsistent with your values of living.

A parody that blends the melancholy of contemporary life with the melody The Christmas Song for seasoned cheer.

Chips unchecked can, and will, chip away at us.

An ethic of wholeness: honoring all forms of change, recognizing our interdependence, and building legacy through service rather than individual achievement—A compelling framework for living.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

Goodbyes are woven throughout life, not just at its end making it both sobering and strangely comforting. Nonetheless there is a crushing weight to "never again."

The desire for fulfillment becomes the very chain that binds us when it’s sought in others’ eyes rather than within ourselves. At that point, our greatest battles lie not in external illusions but within the self.

If you’re waiting to “feel ready” you may be waiting forever. Confidence doesn’t show up with anticipation. It emerges because of action.

Striping away agency and authenticity, reducing the sum of creative expression to its transactional parts, invites decay.

A brisk stroll between restraint and revelation.

None is able to achieve meaningful progress or endure hardship, however fleeting, lest the will to do so.

A passionate, heartfelt farewell to stress that ends the cycle of suffering, harm and the illusion of necessity—a bold act of self-advocacy.

Advice is inherently a mirror that reflects the hues of the adviser's psychology, experience, and truth. Rarely is advice a neutral transmission of pure wisdom.

Life happens and we edit, but we must avoid editing so much that we strip away the essence of our dreams, where what we desire to be and achieve is no longer visible in what we do.

We revere productivity and progress, yet systematically eliminate the very mechanism that generates both.

One who’s just momentarily distracted snaps back to their default frame soon after the dopamine hit. Break the cycle by designing a genuine shift.

Art repeatedly transforms neglected spaces into cultural and economic hubs, triggering cycles of revitalization that often lead to displacement. From SoHo’s artist-led rebirth to South Beach’s glamour revival and Wynwood’s street-art boom, creative energy drives property value but forces original residents out. Theaster Gates offers a countermodel in Chicago, using art to build community wealth and preserve local ownership, proving that renewal can elevate rather than erase.

Hospes reflects the ancient concept of hospitality as a reciprocal relationship between host and guest. In light of the growing disconnect between what hospitality brands promise and what they deliver, this is a plea to see, to serve, and to surprise once more.

When the AI bubble burst and fortunes evaporated overnight, most lost everything. But Dr. Cher Rie.

Altering how we see alters not just what we see, but who we become.

Explore the devastating physical toll of unchecked anger—a primal emotion that doesn’t just affect the mind, but wages war on the body itself.

There is no Office of Happiness in the federal government. No cabinet position devoted to joy. No department measuring whether people can still afford to feel good. Why? Because we have not yet accepted that happiness is infrastructure. But how much longer can we afford not to care about happiness?

On the eve of the 54th anniversary of John Lennon’s 'Imagine,' imagine human social and psychological structures where the pursuit of permanence through ownership, legacy, and preservation is abandoned in favor of impermanence and collective renewal.

Experiencing life inevitably means encountering difficulty, loss, pain, and uncertainty. There’s no way to shield someone completely from hardship without also removing them from life itself. The real gift we can offer others isn’t a life free from challenges, but the tools, support, and presence to help them navigate whatever comes.

Story transcends time and existence, forging continuity between generations. Our stories create a continuous thread, a line, capable of tracing the entirety of our human experience. Share them freely, share them often.

The deafening phobia, paranoia, and psychosis of NOISE: Narcissistic Oligarchs Infected with Socio-economic Elitism.

Community radio is a hyper-local gem for social connection powered by cultural expression, discovery and serendipity.

The Sphere is an exercise in ignorance and hubris. What it communicates is not innovation but rather a sharp disdain for human-centered design: An illuminated slap in the face to humanity (and architecture).

The art of authentic truth-sharing in a post-truth age of mass mistrust and misinformation.

Fragrance, the most visceral pathway to human consciousness, is a legitimate and sophisticated channel for communication, yet it remains confined to beauty rather than embraced by business.

By authentically and humorously portraying the struggles of emerging adulthood, such as career changes and shifting relationships, BILT transforms branded content into a relatable life compass.

Transforming places of work from transactional commodities into lifestyle signals with emotional and cultural cache.

Life's inevitable end, the certainty of death, transforms the journey’s middle into its deepest source of meaning. Embracing presence over passage reveal the sacred completeness of each moment.

Chasing versions of achievement manufactured by the insecurity of looking out rather than looking in robs us of the opportunity to actualize our highest potential.

Audiences crave the irreplaceable authenticity of genuine human connection. Cardi B's “Am I the Drama?” public relations stand as a dynamic example of putting people over pretenses and creating emotional engagement: fostering closes not calculated distance.

Most organizational crises don’t emerge from unforeseen circumstances and external forces; they stem from cultural voids, from the absence of shared understanding and genuine relationships.

In the quiet sanctuary where brush meets canvas and heart meets expression, something miraculous unfolds, healing. Healing that transcends the boundaries of conventional medicine and touches the deepest wells of human experience.

Why public relations must shift its core focus to purposeful human connection that builds long-term trust and away from the extreme spin, manipulation and deception that erode credibility and fuel public paranoia and distrust.