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College Reunion

The Class of 1970 is gathering today, along with hundreds of other alumnae from Mount Holyoke College to celebrate our 40th reunion since graduation. I'm imagining that the topic of conversation among us baby boomers will have to include the enormous changes we've...

The Oprah Weekend

I'm not a big fan club person, but Oprah holds a particular fascination for me--the empire she's created, the people she has around her and the message she expounds. So, I plunked down $377 to attend the Live Your Best Life weekend in New York City in anticipation...

Fearless Fridays – Lana Peck

In March I conducted back-to-back goal-setting workshops for the Cultural Alliance of Fairfield County. One of the characteristics I noticed among the creative and talented men and women attending was an inability to focus. By spreading their abilities over a wide...

Poppy King at Savor the Success Event in NYC Today

I'm just back from a great event for women entrepreneurs called Savor the Success. It will continue tomorrow, but I'm completely filled up. I met terrific women, heard great speakers and practically floated home afterward. I'll be sharing quotes and thoughts I...

Sarah Youngblood’s Transformation

Mercury may be in retrograde, but my client calls this week have been nothing short of stunning. This afternoon Sarah Youngblood of Youngblood Interiors started our conversation by saying that there's been a shift in her. (Music to my ears!) She didn't even need to...

I’m About to Take My Own Advice

Lesson 80 in the new edition of my book, Soul Proprietor, is "Doing nothing by appointment is essential and energizing." I wasn't planning on using this lesson today because productivity is on my mind. I've just come from a one-on-one training at Apple to really...

The Thrill of Victory, The Agony of No IT Department

My committed goal to my action partner yesterday was to complete the design and printing of a mailing label off my MacBook. I just bought a new printer for the job as my HP All-in-One rejects my mailing labels. I unpacked the printer, read through the instructions...

Sneak Preview

I rejected the first cover proof of my book Soul Proprietor because the red in the New Edition area was too dark and the type on Lindsey's name bled into the background. My wonderful book designer Kim Barron made the necessary adjustments; we sent it back for...

An Interesting Offer

I received an unusual offer today to participate in a job fair at the Danbury Correctional Institution. The educational director who placed the call talked about the need to help women prepare for the job market assisting with resume writing and interviewing...

Last Night in Brooklyn

Twenty intrepid Artsy Girls found their way to an inspired evening hosted by Malene B (bottom row, center) last night. Malene invited our group for its quarterly dinner party after being a cherished member for eight years. Fifteen of us drove through the puddles...

A Great Reminder

This morning I finished reading Gretchen Rubin's best-selling book The Happiness Project recently recommended by a new friend, Cathline Marshall. I thoroughly enjoyed it, nodding at the pieces I have already undertaken, jotting down some new ones to test-drive. At...

Day 5

Hurry up, Guys! I'm getting out of Dodge today. We still have no power in my neighborhood due to the broken toothpick-looking utility pole featured in yesterday's blog post. I've continued to 'make do' by hitting libraries and Starbucks for their wi-fi capability,...

Louis Who?

Today is my daughter Laura's birthday. I got up super-early, finished my draft of acknowledgments for the new edition of my book, and will hop onto the 11:30am train to NYC to take her out for lunch. We're going to Hangawi, a Korean vegetarian restaurant...

Fearless Fridays – Malene Barnett

Years ago I had an intern come and work for me from my alma mater, Mount Holyoke College, during the January term when the campus shut down. Rachel Atkinson was an art major and came daily to my studio to help me with my creative projects. Because her father owned...

Fearless Fridays – Rhonda Smith

No, the woman in this picture is not Rhonda Smith. This cigar-smoking Cuban native* is just one of the images Rhonda captured on her recent trip to that Caribbean island to re-awaken her creative juices as a photojournalist. Rhonda is one courageous woman. We first...

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