A common challenge my clients face, and I do too, is getting the attention of the public for a webinar, an in-person event or to enroll in ongoing workshops. Not that it was ever easy, but there are more shiny objects calling for our attention today than ever. I...
Two weeks ago I'd never heard of Gad Elmaleh (had you?), and now he's a hero of mine. I was introduced to him by Ira Glass, host of This American Life, when his story was in re-run during the holidays originally broadcast in November 2016. I would have missed it...
One of the most successful businessmen I know shared his secrets with a mastermind group I ran several years ago. He is married to an entrepreneurial friend of mine and had, in their courtship, helped her grow her design business exponentially. I invited him to...
Poof! I have a new website: https://janepollak.com I hope you visit it soon (and often) and that you enjoy the design and content. I also hope, and anticipate, that it appears to have been accomplished effortlessly. Like the Bolshoi dancers gliding across the...
I know there are classes you can take to pump out your book in a week, a fortnight, or "6-weeks to writing your bestseller." I had all that optimism when I enrolled in Ann Randolph's Take Your Story to the Stage in June, 2014 at Kripalu. Three-plus years later, I'm...
"I am leaving from SoHo at 10am on August 18th for IMS. Please let me know if you need a ride." I'd taken advantage of the offer by Insight Meditation Society to post that I'd like a lift from NYC to Barre, MA for the retreat, and I'd received this quick response....
I'm thrilled to be offering my premiere coaching program--a Mastermind Intensive--in NYC this coming fall. I've been leading these elite groups in Westport, Connecticut for many years now and want to bring that offer here to my new hometown. Finding space for this...
I completed my week in Amherst, MA where I wanted to go through every edit I'd received on my memoir manuscript, make the adjustments--that took the first five days--then read the entire book out loud into my recording device. Seven hours and 40 minutes of...
While waiting for my editor to go through my entire manuscript, I faced a somewhat open calendar which quickly got filled in. A good friend and mutual seeker recommended a 21-day abundance meditation program she'd recently completed. At the end of her three week...
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...
A query letter for your memoir has been sent out to 18 agents without a bite. That's nothing. Chicken Soup for the Soul received 140 rejections stating “Anthologies don’t sell”. You know you won't give up. However, you've turned your manuscript over to a...
"Art is my full-time job," said Susan Beallor-Snyder. "I've filled up my life with art so nothing else can get in."* Susan and I have been working together for years, and she is now exactly where she wants to be in her artistic career. Until about a year ago, Susan...
On a recommendation from Robert Gottlieb's Avid Reader, I checked out A Life by Elia Kazan, one of the best memoirs he ever edited. I picked it up at my local library branch shocked at how thick and heavy it is--over 1000 pages (including index) and weighing...
I received an unsolicited testimonial last week from a client I completed with in November after our 6-month coaching period ended. Her primary goal was to raise her rates and her overall income. Here's what she wrote in a recent email (and I have her permission to...
Back in 1977 when my firstborn was two and a half, I was in a group we named The Mothers Food Coop. Several members of my Stamford, CT La Leche League group who, committed to breastfeeding our babies and improving our own nutrition, had gathered at one woman's home...
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