Hurdles and Vaults: Lessons learned from the Tokyo Olympics

While many things are still up in the air, it was nice to have the normalcy of the Olympics back this summer. There's something so inspiring about seeing

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Supplement Industry Self-Policing Still Inadequate

From the Archives: March 6, 2018 Why is the dietary supplement industry allowing itself to become worse instead of better at self-policing?  The dietary supplement industry is often

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ICQA Musing

From the Archives: June 26, 2018 The 9th International CoQ10 Conference has concluded. I have to begin by saying I have never been prouder of this category than

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The Amazon marketplace – September 2019 update

From the Archives: October 1, 2019Trust Transparency Center has been following and reporting on the “Amazon Effect” on the dietary supplement industry since March 2017. In that time,

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Trust Transparency Experiences from Hurricane Harvey

From the Archives: :  September 12th, 2017 Shortly after Hurricane Harvey, I shared my perspective on LinkedIn about this catastrophic event from a personal standpoint.  Many lessons, good and

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Synthetic or Natural – Who wants to know?

From the Archives: September 26, 2017 Synthetic products can be good. Technology continues to march forward, and for some applications that can be a good thing. Synthetic motor

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TrustTransparency and Building An Advisory Board

Now that you understand the value of an advisory board, are you ready to have one? You may think that's an obvious question since you're reading a book

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The Nature of Love and Trust

I love you.I trust you.Are these phrases ever interchangeable? Can love or trust exist without the other? Think about the ways we talk about and experience love. When someone loves

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Self-Actualized Business

The highest pinnacle in Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs is Self-Actualization, or what we know to be personal growth and fulfillment. A broad category, it covers intangibles, such as

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Putting the Cart Before the Horse

Have you heard the phrase "putting the cart before the horse?" It's a funny thought, picturing a horse standing behind something it's meant to pull. It's used to

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