As a member of the Women's Media Group (WMG) I was invited to contribute a 30-minute mentoring session to one of our youngest members who are college interns. It was my great pleasure to meet Mumtahinah Ahmed, a rising Senior at City College of NY (CCNY) a couple...
My old White Plains HS classmate, Erica Baird, now co-founder of Lustre.is, mentioned her friend Eddie Joyce when I told her of my current writing journey. "The nicest guy!" she said describing him. She soon connected us via email, and I had the pleasure and...
If you read my most recent post, you know that I have a little bit of time on my hands. On Tuesday, with an afternoon and evening wide open, I decided to investigate a new grocery store chain I'd heard of: Aldi's. It was billed as kind of like Trader Joe's only...
If you want to be where it's happening, put the MOCCA Fest on your calendar for next year. It's a spirited gathering featuring an 'incredibly dynamic creative community of comic and cartoon artists' held in mid-Manhattan. MOCCA stands for Museum of Comic and...
Since late February I've been meeting with two other people bi-weekly as a Visions Team. We follow a tight format with 3 timed segments--reading our Vision Statement out loud first, then the longest round with these questions in mind: What have you done since the...
It’s not everyday you get to see a presidential motorcade. I hadn’t planned to yesterday, but en route to attend a lunch with an organization I just joined, the Women’s Media Group, I stumbled upon Obama’s visit to the UN. I’d gotten off the N train at 49th and 7th...
My friend and colleague, Lena West, added me to her distinguished guest list for an excellent event held yesterday at the Hearst Building in NYC entitled Empowering Women in Business. There was an hour of networking in the magnificent atrium there. It was pointed...
Before we went on break for the holidays, I asked each of the remarkable women in my Mastermind Intensive to share her best marketing tip. They were all exceptional, but when everyone got out of their seats to inspect the packaging and note card that Diane Ripstein...
I wish I could ingest Carolyn See's book Making a Literary Life and have it swirl around inside me keeping me as inspired and excited about writing as I was in my first moments reading her marvelous words and advice. Ms. See has a success formula that she insists...
You know how they say, "Don't try this at home alone" ? That's good advice, particularly when it comes to changing your perspective. Do you ever get into a funk and think there's no way out of the mountain you're facing? Happened to me already this week. I'll be...
I rarely use this forum to rant, but after attending and presenting at an unnamed event recently, I have to get some stuff off my chest. I paid for the opportunity to speak at a holistic trade show based on an esteemed colleague's positive experience. She'd had a...
I follow the breadcrumbs in my life. I was feeling stuck last week after writing another chapter of my memoir. Now what? Where do I go from here? What's my theme? Will anybody care? Fortunately, I had had a conversation with a friend last Sunday who mentioned a...
Three times this week dear people in my life have shared how they got lost in a pile somewhere. These are highly accomplished professionals in their fields who chose NOT to "use" someone who might have helped them get to the top of the pile. They wanted their...
I don't remember how this started, but someone told me that all of my social media photos should be the same. When I asked my newsletter helper which image I should choose, she suggested that I ask my friends and family. In other words, 2015-speak, put it up on...
I've never met Madie Hodges, but I like her already. As the Community Manager for Kabbage (which I'd never heard of until she introduced herself), she'd found my blog on the internet and reached out to suggest a topic for my posts: "How can entrepreneurs use their...
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