Many leaders, and far more celebrities, employ “impression-management coaches” (or public relations [PR] agents) when they stick one-or-both feet in their mouths. Mel Gibson did following the anti-Semitic diatribe he launched at the LAPD officer who busted him for DUI. When Kobe Bryant was accused of raping the assistant manager of a hotel he visited, the L.A. Laker star used PR agents in an effort to refurbish his image and retain his lucrative “endorsement persona.”

Welcome to my “New & Improved” blog, The Business Coach: Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About What Coaches Do, and Cannot Do For You, but Didn’t Know You Could Ask. To answer the obvious question, “Why switch from ‘Success Without Distress’ to this subject?” it’ easy: I think this will be of greater interest to Psychology Today’s readers.

As Hara Marano, Editor-at-Large at PT (and my official great friend & godmother) remarked regarding my request to switch foci; “You’ll address some of the issues you planned to raise in your old blog anyway, won’t you?” Of course, I said. I have studied success, successful people, and self-sabotaging successes for (I hate to admit it) over 30 years. With that degree of immersion in a subject it’s hard not to discuss it 24/7. (Or, as they say, “when all you have is a hammer everything looks like a nail.”)

This post is not an instance of jumping on a bandwagon or beating a nearly dead horse. I am doing what I’ve always wanted to do since gaining a modicum of stature from my writings: Trying to disabuse the public of misconceptions concerning how, psychologically speaking, people tick. I engage in this pursuit for a primarily for selfish reason: When half-truths and lies make their way into the mass media and, once there, metastasize like runaway cancers, my blood boils.

My current idée fixe is the trashing of Sarah Palin by pro-Democratic media outlets. I understand political agendas, how much The New York Times and NBC loathe the current president and anyone seen as continuing his policies, but, as they say, enough is too much. I cannot stomach the active distorting of the truth, and this vile behavior is casting Sarah Palin in an underserved negative light. In an attempt to help counteract this wrong, I will attempt to set the record straight about Ms. Palin’s inability to simultaneously be a wife, mother, and Vice President.