Alex Winters

A typical weekday morning for me goes as follows: 

After I hit the snooze about 4 or 5 times I usually drag myself out of bed between 9 and 9:30 and head straight for the coffee pot. Once I…

I could list 100 famous people, but I think that would be missing the point of this question. Famous doesn’t equal successful in my opinion. Success for me is having the financial freedom to explore whatever it is you want…

You probably know Tim Ferriss for his book "The 4 Hour Workweek". I read his book many years ago and thought well isn't that special (in the Church Lady's voice, of course). I loved the idea of what he was…

I stopped today to let a car into traffic as I often do, and I was thinking about how little acts of kindness can really make a big impact on the kind of day I have. If you’ve ever been…

As a woman trying to find her way in the music business, I found Madonna’s Billboard Woman of the Year award acceptance speech extremely moving. She said a lot of things throughout the speech that rang true for me. It made…

Got a spot on the November 7th edition of the Songwriters Across Texas Radio Show! Listen to the replay here.

I've been a supporting member of the Austin Songwriters Group (ASG) off an on for the past 9 years, but I have never had the courage to submit any songs for their contests. This year I threw caution to the wind…

While adventuring on the Twitter one day, Kyle Walz and I found each other exchanging conversation about music and he graciously offered to feature one of my songs on his website. You can read the article here and get a little…

I read an article the other day in Fortune Magazine that talked about how employers are looking for new hires with empathy because this is apparently a decreasing skill that children are not being taught or are not learning. 

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I've been thinking about all the violence that's surrounding us a LOT lately, as I'm sure you have too. The other day I had a thought that maybe all this violence was resulting from our innate need for space. Said…