In 1993, I had the extraordinary opportunity to interview His Holiness, the 14th Dalai Lama. I was a freelance radio journalist then, stringing for Canada’s largest Broadcast arm, Broadcast News. I was deeply interested in the recent Land Claims case of two of Canada’s First Nations people, the Gitxsan – Wet’suwet’en of Northern British Columbia, and

“Paddy,” he said, “the most important thing is to keep the most important thing the most important thing! That was the very first lesson my mentor taught me at the beginning of my Professional Speaking career back in the mid-1990s! I was new to the speaking stage. I had never stood there before. Give me