Through my years as a performing artist, I have learned some important lessons about business, life, and beauty. Until I had children and began teaching, coaching, mentoring and lecturing, having the ability to inspire an audience by being in the performing arts has been my whole life. Being a dancer is much different from being in other art forms. If you are a sculptor or a painter, you are creating art on some other medium than on your...

Is our net worth the best yardstick to measure how valuable we are to the world?

Michael got into the business primarily because of his entrepreneurial nature, but he also recalls how his parents had worked hard their entire lives to have a substantial nest egg only to see much of their fortune eroded due to the expense of long-term care while living in an assisted living facility.