by Jane Pollak | Aug 28, 2020 | Be Inspired, Business Planning, Home Office, Meet Remarkable Women, Persistence, Small Business, Success
As the mother of high school kids (back in the day), I sat at a roundtable of parents where everyone bragged that their kid never slept through the night when they were babies. However, back in the day, when I was the mother of a that toddler, no one admitted that...
by Jane Pollak | Aug 17, 2020 | Business Planning, General Wisdom, Home Office, Persistence, Small Business, Success
With apologies to Elizabeth Barrett Browning, I asked myself, what do I want from my newly acquired art form? It’s the essential coaching question: what do you really want? But, like the infamous shoemaker, I rarely ask it of myself. Do I want to turn this...
by Jane Pollak | Apr 27, 2020 | Balance, Be Inspired, Business Planning, Coaching, Family, Meet Remarkable Women, Persistence
Katie Settel, a long-time client, called me this morning wanting to start a movement. She is passionate about helping children during this crisis. She’s come up with the idea, the organization to sponsor it, and guidelines for contribution. She wanted my help...
by Jane Pollak | Dec 17, 2019 | Business Planning, General Wisdom, Organizational Skills, Persistence, Self-care, Small Business, Time Management
When I was working on my memoir a few years ago, I went on two separate self-designed retreats where I rented an AirBnB for a week or two, holed up with my manuscript, and spent each day focusing on the task at hand. I spread out the pages of each chapter, re-read...
by Jane Pollak | Dec 10, 2019 | Balance, Business Planning, Organizational Skills, Small Business, Time Management
I promise, this is not a humble brag or a disguised way of having you compliment me (but go ahead if you must). I seriously don’t quite get this malady, but I’m clear I have it. On my Visions Group call every two weeks we each (there are three of us) have...
by Jane Pollak | Sep 9, 2019 | Business Planning, Education, Persistence, Personal Development, Small Business, Speaking, Support
When I saw Brennan Cavanaugh’s back-to-school Facebook post recently, it prompted the idea for this entry. He wrote that he’s going into 47th Grade! Brennan is a long-time friend and my recent headshot photographer. It also gives me an excuse to show off...
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