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Not Doing Your Homework Can Be a Good Thing

I'd forgotten the conversation that had me connecting speaking colleague Kevin Carroll to my good friend and mastermind buddy, game inventor Mary Ellroy. But yesterday's conversation with Kevin at Fantastic Kids in NYC reminded me. Kevin was there to promote his...

I Knew It Back Then

As I've accelerated my decluttering, downsizing phase, I came across a book that I was featured in published by La Leche League in 1984 entitled Of Cradles & Careers by Kaye Lowman. I was combining motherhood and career by running a community-based arts program...

Jane’s Tiffany and Target Mastermind Groups

My father, who was in retail for most of his career, wrote a book called the Savvy Shopper. He had been a department store executive and knew the ins and outs of how to get the best price on anything. My siblings and I still rib each other when asking how much...

A Quick Report on My Social Media Event Tonight

I never take pictures of what I'm eating and post them online, but watching Wendy Limauge document the goings-on this evening at my Remarkable Women's Network event, and immediately posting them out there to her minions, altered my viewpoint. Her enthusiasm for...

Go Big or Go Home – Said Kate White

Last night's EWN event was inspiring! Kate White was our featured speaker, and she lit a fire under the entire room. She gave three take-away pieces of advice for success from her new book. The title of this post echoed what one of the members of my upcoming...

I Won a Martha Stewart Contest

My hunch is that because of my blogging over the last three years, I've become more visible and indirectly gotten speaking engagements and clients due to my 3x a week postings. But last week I got what had to have been the first actual reward I can tie directly to...

Work/Life Balance – The Myth

"There is no work/life balance the way it's portrayed," were the opening words of relationship expert and author Dr. Patty Ann Tublin, the third speaker in the Insights from Entrepreneurs series presented at the Westport Library last night. I had arrived early to...

Take Time Off, Or Else

Watch Jane on WTNH - August 11, 2012 How's this for synchronicity? I appeared on WTNH early Saturday morning proclaiming the importance of taking time off, with intention, from your business. This morning, I received this email message from my Virtual Assistant:...

Planning, Planning, Planning

My goal buddy, Sandy, and I re-connected this week after my July hiatus. It felt great to begin committing my plans to a like-minded woman entrepreneur. I'm so excited about my upcoming Mastermind Intensive being offered to the women I've worked with in the past. I...

Martha Stewart Office Products Featured at BlogHer ’12

While the Hillshire Farms booth at the BlogHer '12 trade show booth may have appealed to the "mommy bloggers" who outnumbered every other blogging genre in attendance, it was Martha Stewart's tasteful, organized office products set-up that won my attention. Her...

BlogHer ’12 – Amazing Experience!

If you want to get a sense of the demographics of the BlogHer attendees, this wall of sticky notes is the perfect illustration. One of the vendors had a booth about aging. Each woman filled out a colored sticky note with a message reflecting her attitude and posted...

End of Sabbatical

I'm baaaack! There were days during the month of July when I thought I may never utter those words. But time does its thing, and I couldn't be happier to be at my desk, working with clients, planning the upcoming year and reporting out to you. It's appropriate that...

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