My dear friend Marisabina Russo, aka Cookie, invited me to her home in Westchester today so that I could see the new studio she recently had built on her property. Cookie and I were art majors at Mount Holyoke College with adjacent easels in painting class. From...
I only work with women on a mission. My clients are not women who are complacent with the status quo. They KNOW they are meant to do something important. They see something they want and are looking for support to go and get it. IT can be a boost in their business...
I've never invested in a CSA (Community Supported Agriculture), but when I heard about the newest version of CSA - Community Support Art, I've reconsidered. Begun in Minnesota and now spreading throughout the country, these organizations are bringing art to local...
I stopped by my new AAA office to pick up a map and guidebook for a friend only to discover that my membership had expired. I was assigned a Travel Counselor and went through the renewal process with him. On inquiring about what happened to my status, I mentioned...
I got permission from my very funny and totally brilliant brother, Andy Goodman, to share an email he sent to me and my sisters. It's a perfect illustration of how to make an irresistible request. It rewards the ask-ee even before they've fulfilled the desired...
It felt a little weird telling my newest client that something she just said made SPANX come to mind. Let me back up a second. During my coach training sessions several years ago, we soon-to-be-coaches were instructed and encouraged to blurt out whatever popped...
Need a touch of inspiration? I wasn't looking for that particular brand of motivation when I headed out to the Brooklyn Museum and the highly touted El Anatsui exhibit there. But it's certainly what I left with. AÂ Ghanaian sculptor working in traditional media like...
My sister Meredith and I celebrate our birthdays in July, but decided to jump the gun by a few days in order to see Bette Midler's performance in I'll Eat You Last: A Chat with Sue Mengers, which closed yesterday. What a thrill! Bette performed the part of the...
I saw a phenomenal movie last weekend and have been thinking about its stars and message a lot since then. The film is about the women who have sung back-up for major recording stars and groups from Ike and Tina Turner to the Rolling Stones. It's not a diatribe on...
There's a page in the current issue of MORE magazine called Notebook: Culture for Clued-In Women. There's a quote that I want to share with you. I wish that someone had told me that my own sense of unease about whether I really belonged was shared by everyone in...
You! Most often I am super-charged and invigorated by the world around me and the entrepreneurial filter through which I experience it. When I describe my early business model of decorating eggs, what distinguished me from the multitude of other egg decorators out...
I got to tag along with my daughter Lindsey last week when she was a featured speaker at the Joe Connolly-CBS Business Breakfast in Mahwah, NJ. In my humble opinion, she was the star of the panel on "How to Use Social Media, Etc." I was extremely proud of her as...
  I heard this on the radio today, then found the original post on The High Calling dot org. by Howard E. Butt, Jr Joseph and Noah McVicker invented a substance to clean wallpaper. It was soft, pliable, durable. Trouble was, no one wanted it. And the McVickers set...
I first received money for my artwork the summer of 1970. My co-designer, Noonie Shear, and I were encouraged by our Professor/Producer, Jim Cavanaugh, to display and sell our pen and ink drawings for patrons during the premiere season of the Mount Holyoke College...
It wasn't until I had received three pieces of information that I made the decision to submit my writing to the Huffington Post. 1. I heard Arianna Huffington speak at the Women's Summit back in March. I totally fell in love with her and her message. What an...
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