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Back when I was growing up in New York State, I didn’t listen to much else besides Billy Joel, the Eagles, and Journey. Whenever country music came on the radio, I’d immediately change the station. It wasn’t until about twenty years ago that I realized what country...

I’m a huge fan of the New York Yankees, and one of my top three players of all time is Derek Jeter. (The other two are Thurman Munson and Bucky Dent.) For Father’s Day last year, my kids got me a Yankees trivia book. I was looking at it recently and saw that when...

Over the weekend, I wrapped up a Heart-Led Leader Women’s retreat at the beautiful Desert Mountain Club in Scottsdale, Arizona. We had twenty-six senior female leaders from all over the country participate. These retreats are all about teaching high-impact leaders to...

I've written a lot about my two wonderful sisters, Lisa and Michele, but few people know that I also had two brothers named Timothy and Andrew. Timothy, who was nineteen months younger than me, died while my mother was giving birth. A few years later, Andrew died...

A couple of months ago, my stepson, Anthony, began his second year at the United States Military Academy at West Point. A few days before he left, Anthony shared something with me that has haunted my thoughts, “I’m willing to die for my country.” This wasn’t the first...

An excerpt from The Gift of Influence, Tommy’s newest release now available wherever you buy books! Have you ever heard an unforgettable story—one that you can’t stop thinking about for days, months, or even years? These kinds of stories aren’t just heartwarming; they...

An excerpt from The Gift of Influence, Tommy’s newest release now available wherever you buy books! Imagine this scene: Many years from now, after you pass away surrounded by your loved ones, you slip into the hazy twilight between life and death. You’re not in heaven...

An exerpt from The Gift of Influence, Tommy's newest release debuting next Tuesday, September 20th! Fifty-one days before my fiftieth birthday, I was on a Southwest Airlines flight bound for Denver. It was a bumpy ride, and the seatbelt sign kept flashing on. As we...

Exactly two weeks from today is the release of my third book, The Gift of Influence. For a lot of my peers on the speaker’s circuit, writing three books in a dozen years isn’t that impressive. Some of them can pump out a book per year like clockwork. But it takes...

Have you ever heard the story about the man who lived by the river? It’s a parable about a devout Christian man who refused to evacuate his home after hearing a radio broadcast warning of an impending flood. “I’m a good Christian,” he told himself. “God will save me.”...