I've been wanting to offer something special to all the remarkable women I know for seven years now. I put it out to the public right before the economy took a dive in 2007. You all know what happened to hopes and dreams back then. Nada. But my desire never...
On Monday evening, September 29, I'm inviting Remarkable Women to answer that exact question. Is it really comfortable in there, or is it a hiding place and cover story that keeps you from what you really want in life? Several years ago I was coaching a...
I've been reluctant to attend any of the new networks I started going to when I moved to NYC nearly two years ago. I have met a handful of wonderful women, particularly through In Good Company. But I am not feeling the love or sense of connectedness that I used to...
Where to begin?! Last night my daughter Lindsey celebrated the release of her latest book, Becoming the Boss: New Rules for the Next Generation of Leaders. I received my inscribed copy at the event and began reading it right away. It drew me right in with its...
My friend and mentor Terry Capuana has been telling me about the Clay Art Center in Portchester for years. "You've got to see this place," she has said over and over again. Finally, as though it were I who was doing her the favor, I agreed to schedule a Westchester...
Whatever you thought about her sense of humor, Joan Rivers was a hard-working woman entrepreneur whom I admired and learned from. I didn't realize just how hard-working she was until I saw her documentary, "Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work." This woman would...
My reaction to receiving two cracked ice cube trays was, at first, annoyance. I buy almost everything on the internet now. Figuring out the return policy and repackaging the product were going to be more of a nuisance than I'd take the time for. I probably would...
Within 90 minutes this morning I heard the same sentence uttered by two different women I admire. In each instance, a second party had commented on a lifestyle choice my friend/client had made and remarked, somewhat snarkily, "It's so nice that you have that...
I'm getting ready to re-start my Mastermind Intensive this September. I'm interviewing each of the eight women entrepreneurs who will be joining me monthly for the next year. I'm inviting the members who've participated before to recall each expert we had address...
I'm in the process of applying to be a writer-in-residence for a few weeks this coming winter. The location is remote and far away. It is exclusively for women. We each get our own cabin, write all day, then gather in the evening for community and support. Meals...
I didn't often read Red Smith's column in the sports section of the NY Times, but on one occasion I was extremely taken by his humility. He wrote something like, "I've been writing about baseball for 30 years, and I think I'm beginning to understand it now."...
When I first started my business, I called it, very imaginatively, AN EGG BY JANE. Gosh! How'd I think that one up? During my keynote address, I repeated a conversation I'd frequently have with new vendors. "What's the name of your company?" they'd inquire. "An Egg...
We didn't know that these would be the last words that my 88 year old mother would utter, but it turned out that they were. "Shut up!" she barked at me and my sisters who had congregated in the emergency room of White Plains Hospital. There were seven of us in that...
At a friend's 40th birthday party the guest of honor ceremonially opened her gifts, one by one, and acknowledged the person who gave it to her. As she got closer to the gold-wrapped box I'd brought, my heart started to beat more rapidly. Id' been having an...
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