• Bucks County Leadership: Chris Bickel, Main Line Market Leader, Centric Bank

    Bucks County Leadership: Chris Bickel, Main Line Market Leader, Centric Bank

    Chris Bickel, Main Line Market Leader at Centric Bank, spoke with BUCKSCO Today about growing up in Berwyn, the competitive spirit he honed through sports, playing in three national lacrosse championships for Syracuse, and his love of the outdoors. Chris described how he found his way into the banking industry, his recipe for success in…

  • Bucks County Leadership: Beth Duffy, President and COO of Einstein Medical Center Montgomery

    Bucks County Leadership: Beth Duffy, President and COO of Einstein Medical Center Montgomery

    Beth Duffy, President and Chief Operating Officer of Einstein Medical Center Montgomery, spoke with BUCKSCO Today about growing up in Southampton, her early jobs, and why she believes everybody should work in a fast food restaurant at some point in their lives.  Duffy went on to explain her career path from wanting to become a…

  • Start Living the Abundant Life Today!

    Start Living the Abundant Life Today!

    In Suze Orman’s book, The Courage to be Rich, she offers what she calls The First Law of Money: People first, then money, then things. She proposes that we need to value money more than things because it’s money that enables us to acquire those things. And, if we value money over things, we’ll take…

  • Bucks County Leadership: Joseph Cafarchio, Executive Vice President, Meridian Bank

    Bucks County Leadership: Joseph Cafarchio, Executive Vice President, Meridian Bank

    Joe Cafarchio, Executive Vice President at Meridian Bank, spoke with BUCKSCO Today about growing up as the second oldest of eight children in East Syracuse, New York. He told how he learned responsibility at an early age by helping take care of his younger siblings, including cooking dinners from scratch. As a teenager, Cafarchio fell…

  • Is It The Humidity, Or Are You Stuck In An Energy Drain?

    Is It The Humidity, Or Are You Stuck In An Energy Drain?

    Your attitude- positive or negative- affects your energy level. It makes sense, right? If you go into a situation with positive thoughts, you will have more energy to put into the task. In order to develop a positive attitude, it’s important to become aware of what drains your energy or what causes you to think…

  • Bucks County Leadership: Anne M. Prisco, President, Holy Family University

    Bucks County Leadership: Anne M. Prisco, President, Holy Family University

    Anne Prisco, the president of Holy Family University, spoke with BUCKSCO Today about growing up in Brooklyn and how being the daughter of a first-generation immigrant has shaped her life. Her love for Home Economics took her to the University of Arizona on a scholarship, but after college, she returned to New York City and…

  • Bucks County Leadership: Bud Hansen, President and CEO, Normandy Farm Hotel & Conference Center

    Bucks County Leadership: Bud Hansen, President and CEO, Normandy Farm Hotel & Conference Center

    Bud Hansen, president and CEO of Normandy Farm, spoke to BUCKSCO Today about his close relationship with his dad and how he learned to love golf from an early age. He also talked about sharing a love of sports with his wife and kids, and why their house is where their kids love to hang…

  • Bucks County Leadership: Michael Rounds, President of Williamson College of the Trades

    Bucks County Leadership: Michael Rounds, President of Williamson College of the Trades

    Delaware County Leadership: Michael Rounds, President of Williamson College of the Trades Michael Rounds, President of Williamson College of the Trades, spoke with DELCO Today about growing up in Minnesota, his interest in music and football, his decision to go to West Point, and finally become the president of Williamson College of the Trades, a…

  • 5 Thoughts for Keeping Your Motivation on Hazy, Hot, and Humid Days

    5 Thoughts for Keeping Your Motivation on Hazy, Hot, and Humid Days

    “Our finest moments are most likely to occur when we are feeling deeply uncomfortable, unhappy, or unfulfilled. For it is only in such moments, propelled by our discomfort, that we are likely to step out of our ruts and start searching for different ways or truer answers.”  M. Scott Peck – The “Road Less Traveled”…

  • Bucks County Leadership: Dr. Benjamin Rusiloski, President, Delaware Valley University

    Bucks County Leadership: Dr. Benjamin Rusiloski, President, Delaware Valley University

    Dr. Benjamin Rusiloski, the president of Delaware Valley University, spoke with BUCKSCO Today about his early love for science and math that took him from being a statistician for his high school sports teams to becoming a chemistry professor. He also discussed growing up with parents who instilled a lifelong love of education and the…

  • Tuesday with Michael: 4 Simple Steps to an Ideal Life

    Tuesday with Michael: 4 Simple Steps to an Ideal Life

    Assemble an ideal week. Start by finding blocks of time for your family, High Payoff Activities (HPA’s) and for planning. Add and arrange other blocks of time to your schedule until you have identified an ideal week that allows you to enjoy personal time as well as time to spend on your most important goals. …

  • Tuesday With Michael: Where is Your Wheel of Life Taking You?

    Tuesday With Michael: Where is Your Wheel of Life Taking You?

    In his book, The Unheavenly City, Dr. Edward Banfield described one of the most profound studies on success and priority setting ever conducted. He said that men and women who were the most successful in life and who were the most likely to move up economically were those who took the future into consideration with…

  • Cathy Rush, Immaculata Started a Revolution in Women’s Basketball; Their Impact on the Sport Still Resonates Today

    Cathy Rush, Immaculata Started a Revolution in Women’s Basketball; Their Impact on the Sport Still Resonates Today

    Despite retiring from coaching in 1977, former Immaculata women’s basketball coach Cathy Rush’s impact on the sport resonates to this day, writes Mike Sielski for the Philadelphia Inquirer.  Rush coached Immaculata to three national championships in the Association for Intercollegiate Athletics for Women. At the time, the AIAW (not the NCAA) was the governing body…

  • Bucks County Leadership: Deanne H. D’Emilio, JD, President of Gwynedd Mercy University

    Bucks County Leadership: Deanne H. D’Emilio, JD, President of Gwynedd Mercy University

    Deanne H. D’Emilio, President of Gwynedd Mercy University, spoke with BUCKSCO Today about having hit the “parent jackpot” as a child growing up in suburban Pittsburgh; her interest in music and tennis; and her decision to attend Westminster College, Bowling Green State University, and Pitt for nine consecutive years. D’Emilio also discussed the people who…

  • Firstrust Bank CEO Richard J. Green Delivers Anti-Hate Message at ADL Event: ‘Be That Somebody’

    Firstrust Bank CEO Richard J. Green Delivers Anti-Hate Message at ADL Event: ‘Be That Somebody’

    The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) event that honored Firstrust Bank Board Chairman and CEO Richard L. Green became an opportunity for the corporate leader to decry society’s alarming rise in hate. Green’s comments came during his acceptance speech for the ADL’s Americanism Award. The Americanism Award recognizes individuals or companies in the financial services industry for…

  • Bucks County Leadership: Jim Brexler, CEO of Doylestown Health

    Bucks County Leadership: Jim Brexler, CEO of Doylestown Health

    Jim Brexler, CEO of Doylestown Health spoke with BUCKSCO Today about growing up in St. Louis County, Missouri; taking Chevy Chase–style vacations to Southern California to visit his mother’s family when he was a kid; learning basic leadership skills at the age of six by playing catcher on a little league baseball team coached by…

  • Bucks County Leadership: Roger Zacharia, CEO of Ambler Savings Bank

    Bucks County Leadership: Roger Zacharia, CEO of Ambler Savings Bank

    Roger Zacharia, the CEO of Ambler Savings Bank, spoke with BUCKSCO Today about growing up in Huntingdon Valley as the son of hard-working immigrants; playing baseball and becoming passionate about the strategy of the sport; and being drawn to the immensity of Penn State after graduating high school in a class of just 60 students.…

  • Bucks County Leadership: Marc Lucca, President of Aqua Pennsylvania

    Bucks County Leadership: Marc Lucca, President of Aqua Pennsylvania

    Marc Lucca, the President of Aqua Pennsylvania, spoke with BUCKSCO Today about growing up in South Philly; being motivated to work at an early age; bussing tables at restaurants his father managed throughout the city; and the lessons he learned from the many part-time jobs he had when he was younger. Lucca also discussed how…