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BlogHer ’10 – After the Event

My head is still spinning from the informational overload, excitement, new relationships and possibilities opened as a result of attending this spectacular conference in NYC last week. I want to offer my own session next year called something like, "So you're...

Choose Your Outcome

I had the immense pleasure and privilege of sitting at the table with Missy Germain and her mother Gail at the opening breakfast session at BlogHer 2010.  I was with Sarah Youngblood, my client and friend from Georgia, when we randomly sat down and then pinched...

If Only Lucky Breaks Came Labeled

Back-to-back coaching calls with similar themes give me ideas for my blog. Yesterday two of my creative clients reported in with extraordinary success stories. A designer client began apologetically,  saying she hadn't completed her fieldwork assignments, but that...

Annemarie Colbin’s Three Bears Rules

I'm attending the Kushi Institute's Macrobiotic Conference for the next few days in Palisades, NY, and just heard Annemarie Colbin speak. She's the founder of the Natural Gourmet Institute for Health and Culinary Arts, plus author of multiple books on nutrition and...

The Old Bulky Envelope Trick

It works every time. What's the first piece of mail you open, should you receive any, in your snail mail box? If there's something there that is thick and bulky with a first class stamp and a valued name on the return address, my money says that's what gets ripped...

What Laura Learned

My younger daughter Laura, to whom my book Soul Proprietor is dedicated, helped me out this week by listening to the soon-to-be-released audio version of the book. Line by line, she read the text while listening to the recording I'd spent the last couple of months...

A New Network for Me

In May I attended my first Savor the Success event in NYC--an all-day program called Rock the World, which I thoroughly enjoyed (and blogged about). Last night I went to the organization's monthly meeting hosted by founder Angela Jia Kim. The setting, 75 Wall...

Birthdays and Feedback

July 4 is my birthday, and I plan it very carefully. Having been at sleepaway camps for much of my youth, my summertime birthday often got glossed over. So, as an adult, I carefully construct my day to be everything I want it to be. (Note the underlying lesson...

Fearless Fridays – Mary Quinlan/Painter

It's not easy to claim a life as a painter, especially after 34 years of being the person behind the scenes. But that's exactly what my good friend and client Mary Quinlan has done. She spent her entire career encouraging young people to express themselves...

That Took HOW Long?

I had a conversation with a representative from Infusionsoft.com this week about how to work their system. It's a very sophisticated email marketing vehicle I just signed up for. Kirk opened the training call by explaining this image --how it takes the business...

Illusion, I Mean Perception, is Everything

Two-hundred and fifty women received a  postcard mailing from me last week announcing my upcoming summer Remarkable Women's Network events. It had the image you see here on the face of it taken at my March 15 event held at Boardroom in Stamford, CT. Only women who...

The Undauntable Heather Habelka

Heather Habelka told me that when she used to play with dolls, she didn't cast them as family members like mother, father, sister and brother. Nor did she pretend that they were students and she the teacher. When she was growing up, she told me recently, her dolls...

Celebrating with Cookie

My dear friend, Cookie (aka Marisabina Russo) turned the big 6-0 last month. At a gala surprise party organized by her devoted husband Whitney, about that many friends gathered including several Artsy Girls pictured here. To personally celebrate Cookie, I invited...

Talk About a USP

I took a scenic ride up route 136 yesterday to visit Sticks and Stones Farm, a place that has intrigued me since I heard about it, but never took the time to go see. Years ago I was having coffee with an EWN colleague, a web designer and brand strategist, who told...

The Amazing Sam Horn

Thank God Sam Horn wrote the book POP because owning it saved me from having to write down every word she spoke at the conference I attended last week in Waltham, MA. I knew that I would be able to look up the gems she shared and spend time mulling them long after...