The Power of Video

I can’t stop thinking about a recent LinkedIn post1 that I shared on Thursday, October 9, 2025. Daniella Thoren, my Wolters Kluwer Health colleague and beloved friend, and I presented together at the GW Ethics Publishing Conference, hosted by John Warren, Puja Telikicherla, and their amazing team. Our talk, “Equity at the Editorial Table: Rethinking Board Policies for Inclusive, Ethical Publishing,” went really well, and we loved meeting our copanelists. We were also so excited to see each other and our community. At the lunch break, Daniella and I had an idea to bottle up the fun vibes of the day by filming a current TikTok trend that we could repurpose for LinkedIn. We lip synched the 1980 hit by Stephanie Mills: “I never knew love like this before Now I’m lonely never more Since you came into my life” Daniella had 2 pairs of sunglasses in her bag, so we put those on; she used her hairbrush to be the lead singer, while I danced around in the background with my hot pink conference blanket. Daniella is an amazing partner in our day-to-day work life, but I don’t get to see her often enough because we work remotely. After filming in 1 take, we captioned the video: “What happens when two remote work besties see each other in person for the first time in forever.” I posted it on LinkedIn and forgot about it until the next day, when I saw that tremendous numbers of people were engaging with […]