Ocean Palmer, Author at Ocean Palmer

Ensemble Comedy “Lucas Goes to Cabo” now available on Amazon!

June 3, 2022 by Ocean Palmer Leave a Comment

Worth the wait and laugh-out-loud funny! The eBook launched today, with print due to follow in just a couple days! I am very excited to share this story — the idea for it germinated at least five years ago and percolated seemingly forever until I figured it all out — but now that the read […]

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New book coming soon: “Getting a New Job”

June 1, 2022 by Ocean Palmer Leave a Comment

“Getting a New Job” (a smartbook for positive change) is nearing publication. The “how to” guide will be available by July 1st via e-book and print-on-demand. I am happy with it and confident it will help a lot of readers seeking inside secrets to interview more effectively and secure opportunities they truly desire. The book […]

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Charity Works: The Bimini Project

April 18, 2022 by Ocean Palmer Leave a Comment

When I founded the No Bats Baseball Club thirty years ago, I had no idea we would grow into the extraordinary organization the years have ordained. Yesterday, Easter Sunday, we partnered with Baltimore’s Oriole Advocates to outfit every child on the island of Bimini, Bahamas to play baseball if he or she desires. This is […]

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“Having It All” … What Exactly Is It?

April 8, 2022 by Ocean Palmer Leave a Comment

What Is All? Years back I met a twenty-something new to our organization who told me she moved to town intent on “having it all.” Her statement was quick and decisive so I asked a clarification question, “What is all?” Her answer was immediate and definitive. “Husband, house, picket fence, baby, all of it,” she […]

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Helping the Next Generation of Entrepreneurs

April 8, 2022 by Ocean Palmer Leave a Comment

I am a big advocate for supporting sales initiatives in college and universities. Here is a short piece on a program at Jacksonville University I have been actively supporting. The next generation of greats is out there and I hope someday soon they will produce some amazing results. Dolphin Pitch: Which entrepreneur can make the […]

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“Lucas Goes to Cabo” — a new comedy novella

March 31, 2022 by Ocean Palmer Leave a Comment

New Comedy on the Way! A fun, quick, and easy read, Lucas Goes to Cabo is out with advanced readers. All appendages are crossed hoping the story will soon be ready for release. This ensemble comedy has been kicking and screaming inside my coconut for five or six years, morphing, changing, evolving, and birthing. At […]

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Where Are the Smarts, In Your Head or In the Phone?

March 31, 2022 by Ocean Palmer Leave a Comment

Who’s your most valuable compadre, a real person or your cell phone? A tongue-in-cheek point to ponder, perhaps, but there is a danger in dehumanizing our lives to the extent we rely on our phones and iPads more than what blossoms inside the mind. I recently watched two TV shows with dramatically contrasting approaches and […]

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Why the World is Getting Louder

February 18, 2022 by Ocean Palmer Leave a Comment

Woke. Cancel. Gaslighting. The world is angry, seemingly louder by the day. The why is simple: Everyone has a microphone and instant access to Internet pulpits and megaphones. If the entire world has microphones, it stands to reason the volume will increase. As common as those three words are as they take turns in today’s […]

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Respect: Savannah Bananas vs. Linden Entertainment

February 9, 2022 by Ocean Palmer Leave a Comment

Yesterday provided an interesting contrast in emotional experience management. In the space of a couple hours, I heard from the Savannah Bananas baseball club, a small group of professional business coaches assisting college entrepreneurs, and Linden Entertainment. Linden is a talent agency that represents a handful of actors. The Bananas are owned by an innovative customer-centric […]

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New novel soon to be released: Tuki (Back in the Game with Tweedle & Friends)

January 19, 2022 by Ocean Palmer Leave a Comment

Tuki Back in the Game with Tweedle & Friends Exciting news! We have reached the pre-publication stage! Twenty years after shocking the world and paying a terribly unfair price for doing a good deed, Tuki Banjo battles problems and demons at a second stage of life. This story ushers us into her world, a predicament […]

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