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From Beyond the Grave: How Technology Is Resurrecting Talent from the Great Beyond

Kelli Richards April 25, 2026

LinkedIn.com, April 25, 2026

In April 2012, 90,000 people at the Coachella music festival watched Tupac Shakur take the stage alongside Dr. Dre and Snoop Dogg. The crowd went insane. The hashtag #tupachologram trended for three weeks. There was just one problem: Tupac had been dead for sixteen years.

What happened that night in the California desert was a signal flare — a glimpse of a future where talent, creativity, and legacy no longer end with death. Over the decade plus since then, the technology has only accelerated. Today, we are firmly in an era where the barrier between the living and the departed is being dissolved by artificial intelligence, machine learning, and digital production techniques that would have seemed miraculous (if not impossible) just a generation ago.

Read the entire article at From Beyond the Grave: How Technology Is Resurrecting Talent from the Great Beyond

When Past Glory Becomes Present Pressure: The Quiet Self-Sabotage of High Achievers

Kelli Richards April 10, 2026

LinkedIn.com, April 10, 2026

There’s a pattern I’ve observed—both in others and, at moments, in myself—that doesn’t get talked about enough.

It’s not failure in the traditional sense. It’s something more subtle. More disorienting.

It’s what happens when someone who has been exceptional finds themselves no longer operating from that same level of momentum, relevance, or external validation… but is still being perceived through the lens of their past success.

From the outside, they’re still “the one who did X.” On the inside, something has shifted.

And that gap—between past identity and present reality—can quietly become one of the most destabilizing forces that a high achiever will ever face.

Read the entire article at When Past Glory Becomes Present Pressure: The Quiet Self-Sabotage of High Achievers

The Compound Power of Consistency: Why the Slight Edge Always Wins

Kelli Richards February 16, 2026

LinkedIn.com, February 2026-There’s a seductive myth in our culture: That success comes from a breakthrough moment, a viral post that lands, a single brilliant move, a moonshot deal. Or even luck!

But in reality?

It’s almost always the result of something far less glamorous and far more powerful.  In a word — Consistency.

In The Slight Edge, author Jeff Olson argues that the small, seemingly insignificant actions we take daily — or neglect daily — are what compound into extraordinary outcomes over time.  Not dramatic, not flashy, but decisive and almost predictable in terms of the results that accrue.

 

Read the entire article: The Compound Power of Consistency: Why the Slight Edge Always Wins

 

The New Venture Capital

Kelli Richards February 16, 2023

On this show, I join Mona DeFrawi to talk about the new wealth creation and startup funding paradigm that is disrupting the venture capital industry. With $80T of US retail investor assets and years of dedicated SEC efforts and regulations to support capital formation and retail private market access – the Future Has Arrived!

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