If you've ever had a massage, this is something the therapist will ask a few minutes into your treatment? Do you want her to press harder, or simply give your muscles a gentle workout? It comes up in coaching as well. I have a new client who is balancing a...
The mastermind group I facilitate met last Friday and were privileged to hear Gail Berritt, Esq. share legal essentials for small business owners. Each member of my group got to pose a specific question to Gail. Plus, Gail shared tips that applied to all of us....
My newest mastermind group started in midtown yesterday, and I found myself with six of the most dynamic, creative and inspiring women I know. While confidentiality is key to the success of the group, I can tell you that they all nodded in hearty agreement when I...
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...
I thought I'd open the kimono a bit today and share my own process when I'm working on a big project. What has my attention these days, well, for over a year, really, has been a memoir. It keeps shape-shifting, but it's moving forward, which is the main thing....
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 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...
I had the privilege of hearing Seth Godin at the Metropolitan Museum of Art on Monday night. Not a typical venue for this entrepreneurial guru. But, in a stroke, or SPARK, of creative genius, Julie Burstein invited him onto a two-person panel to celebrate a...
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...
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...
I'm getting ready to re-start my Mastermind Intensive this September. I'm interviewing each of the eight women entrepreneurs who will be joining me monthly for the next year. I'm inviting the members who've participated before to recall each expert we had address...
I'm in the process of applying to be a writer-in-residence for a few weeks this coming winter. The location is remote and far away. It is exclusively for women. We each get our own cabin, write all day, then gather in the evening for community and support. Meals...
When I first started my business, I called it, very imaginatively, AN EGG BY JANE. Gosh! How'd I think that one up? During my keynote address, I repeated a conversation I'd frequently have with new vendors. "What's the name of your company?" they'd inquire. "An Egg...
I rent space from Cynthia Overgard, President and CEO of HypnoBirthing CT. She has a warm and welcoming space in an office building well-located in Westport on the Norwalk/Westport line directly across from Whole Foods and Panera Bread and equi-distant between I-95...
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