I got to watch a segment of CBS Sunday Morning featuring this Academy Award winner and television actress Helen Hunt who, before listening to her interview, I would've thought was turning down offers, working to her heart's content and completely satisfied with her...
My Mastermind Intensive, aka the Bolders, had the privilege of listening to Jeff Seaver of Seaver Interactive talk about what social media is and isn't. He was our guest expert last Friday. We were riveted by his humor, his candor and the enormity of his knowledge...
Growing up, someone who 'needed help' was looked at sideways. Going to a 'shrink' was ridiculed as even the expression implies. This was all before the days of coaches, support groups, accountability partners, etc. Today, asking for help is a sign of strength....
I attended a fabulous talk at the 92nd Street Y last night, not coincidentally conducted by my daughter, Lindsey. I thought I'd gotten a lot of this information through reading her book Becoming the Boss. But this time around my ears tuned in to other,...
I determined to create the name tags for my upcoming retreat on this snowy day. I'm really good at work-arounds. When something doesn't come out the way I expect on the first try, I'm creative enough to figure out a different way. Today, however, I vowed to stay...
I promised to reveal what happened at my Remarkable Women's Workshop as a result of using my new Visual Explorer kit, the coaching tool I introduced at the event. Magic! First, I asked each woman attending to talk briefly about what challenges lay ahead of her. We...
Rosabeth Moss Kanter, a professor at Harvard Business School, once said, "My personal law of management, if not life, is that everything looks like a failure in the middle." Having experienced my own legions of failures in the middle, I've become an expert at...
When I read that line in her interview with Oprah in the December issue of O Magazine, I almost spit out my hot water and lemon drink. A rich, gorgeous, multimillionaire business phenom, married to Barry Diller questions her level of achievement? Here's the direct...
I had the sublime pleasure of being invited to participate on a field trip to Winterthur yesterday organized by a friend in the publishing industry. She generously added me to her guest list which included three additional women, all major players in that field...
You see creative types trying all sorts of ways to get attention in NYC--laying out armloads of prints on tables along Times Square, quartets of young men calling for everyone's attention on a subway car and then performing an outrageous gymnastics feat, or the...
Last night I dreamt that I was on my way to my memoir class and was crossing the campus (it's actually housed in a skyscraper on 8th Avenue) on a snowy afternoon. I couldn't get my footing and kept slipping backwards as I was trying to walk towards the building. I...
My Mastermind Intensive met last Friday and had the privilege of hearing Bryan Mattimore's expertise on the subject of innovation and creative thinking. He's the author of Idea Stormers and a long-time business associate of mine. He graciously accepted my...
Don't ask me why, but I keep my baby book (yes, from when I was a baby) on the lower shelf of my bedstand. Maybe it's the memoir class I'm taking that has me reviewing my history, but this morning I came across my report card, hand-written my Miss Major about me as...
At my next Remarkable Women's Network event the focus will be on radical fulfillment. Sounds like a lot to accomplish in two hours, right? But it starts very simply by identifying what's really important to YOU. Easier said than done. How many times this week...
Me, too! In fact, I spent a good part of this weekend getting all my gear in order for you. I got my projector working, my slides in order and my handouts printed. This is my desk in preparation mode (cleaned up for the camera, of course). I'm very excited to see...
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