Author: Overcoming Adversity | Buteau’s Odyssey

The yearning to belong arguably begins at birth for humans, but how can we all make progress on that need? An enormous new study with college students suggests a partial answer. Seeking ideas there makes sense. College can be a hard time for young people, and it may be a useful model of challenging times generally. Think about what students face: Leaving home, or at least leaving old roles. Entering new rooms. Risking rejection. Trying on identities. Asking for help. Making friends. Handling the stress of possible failure. Dealing with financial pressures, perhaps for the first time. Sitting with loneliness.…

The NFL offseason is in full swing.The bulk of free agency has come and gone, with many of the top players available finding homes, and the NFL Draft is in the rear-view as well. There are still some notable free agents out there who have yet to be signed, however, and others might be on the move.Here’s the latest look at some of the most notable rumors around the NFL.[2026 NFL Free Agency: Top 100 Players Available and Potential Fits]May 21Chargers GM Joe Hortiz won’t rule out Keenan Allen returnThe Los Angeles Chargers have one of the youngest receiving corps…

Cannibal Apocalypse merges about eight or nine different subgenres together … yet somehow, it all works!Cannibal Apocalypse is definitely one of the most inventive zombie flicks of the ‘80s!Cannibal Apocalypse walked so The Walking Dead … well, could walk, I guess.Decades before the AMC series became a cable television juggernaut, this still relatively obscure 1980 exploitation flick gave us the first zombies to overrun Atlanta. And yes, the film actually was shot on location in Atlanta, even if it is a classical Italian zombie flick by every other metric.This film was made by sort of an exploitation movie dream team.…

This week, I’m wrapping up this year’s session of my course “Assessing and Treating Sex Issues in Psychotherapy.” It’s been a pleasure to see how far all of the students have come in the past 15 weeks, and to follow along as their cases progress and their skills and confidence grow. As a result, I’ve been thinking a lot about what actually allows people to take something they learn from theory to practice. How do we implement what we learn? How do we experiment with it? And how do we assess our experiments and decide what to do next? One…

ALISON BEARD: Welcome to HBR On Leadership. I’m HBR Executive Editor Alison Beard. On this show, we share case studies and conversations with the world’s top business and management experts, hand-selected to help you unlock the best in those around you. We carefully curate this feed from across the HBR portfolio, aiming to help you unlock your next level of leadership. I hope you enjoy the episode. AMY BERNSTEIN: You’re listening to Women at Work, from Harvard Business Review. I’m Amy Bernstein. “Middle Managers Should Drive Your Business Transformation.” That’s the title of an HBR article published in April. The authors,…

This is college football. At some point, the games pause, but the news and drama never does.Here’s an offseason tracker for buzz across the college football landscape, including coaching changes, injury news, personnel moves and more.Lane Kiffin adds Ed Orgeron to LSU’s staffNew LSU football coach Lane Kiffin has reportedly added former Tigers head coach Ed Orgeron to his coaching staff, Pete Thamel reported. Orgeron had a 51-20 record over six seasons as LSU’s head coach from 2016-2021, leading the Tigers to a College Football Playoff national championship in 2019 to conclude a perfect, 15-0, season. Following that season, though, the…

Leslie Vernon has returned, and he is excited to get back into the swing of things! The once aspiring killer, now legend, has released a video! As he talks to the camera, Leslie appears to be enjoying his personal stomping grounds of Glen Echo. In fact he seems perfectly at home, and particularly inspired to continue his work.Leslie Vernon (Nathan Baesel) and Taylor Gentry (Angela Goethals).As he casually strolls, he explains how he is “getting re-acquainted”. Does this mean it is time for Leslie Vernon to make his triumphant return? You better believe it is! Something has beckoned him back, and…

After giving readers a closer look at the “wide-eyed innocence” and admirable courage of Hellboy in his formative years in the comic book miniseries The Hidden Land and Assault on Castle Death, Thomas Sniegoski is reteaming with co-writer Mike Mignola and artist Craig Rousseau for the new four-issue series Young Hellboy: Thrilling Sky Adventures! Following a classic pulp-style “story within a story” featuring the Sky Devil herself, Scarlett Santiago, the first issue of Young Hellboy: Thrilling Sky Adventures has now landed on comic shop shelves via Dark Horse, and we caught up with Thomas Sniegoski in a new Q&A feature…

Wicked Horror alum Nat Brehmer wraps up Julie, his first directorial effortNat Brehmer’s upcoming film Julie isn’t just his first directorial outing — it’s the culmination of a two-decade journey. “There was a lot of persistence just to get the movie made,” he told Wicked Horror. “Seeing each of these things that I’ve had in my head for so long come together was the ultimate dream.”Brehmer co-directed the film alongside long-time collaborator Quinton Macari III. He wrote the first draft of Julie — beginning to end over the course of one weekend — roughly 20 years ago. “It’s about a girl who…

I never intended or wanted to become a doctor. It was at the very bottom of my list of possible careers. In fact, I only went to medical school because an advisor at Amherst College told me to go, telling me psychiatrists were medical doctors, and only medical doctors could prescribe medications, which would become increasingly important in future years. So, I talked my way into Stanford, in spite of the fact that I hadn’t been a pre-med student. My sophomore year, our lab instructor announced that today we’d be practicing drawing blood from each other’s arms and started handing…