There's an ages-old perception out there that what we conjure up in our imagination is reality. When I wrote my first book Decorating Eggs and flew to North Carolina to work with the editor and art director, I was sure that authors were met at airports with red...
No, the woman in this picture is not Rhonda Smith. This cigar-smoking Cuban native* is just one of the images Rhonda captured on her recent trip to that Caribbean island to re-awaken her creative juices as a photojournalist. Rhonda is one courageous woman. We first...
Joan has been one of my role models since I met her at the Entrepreneurial Woman's Network nearly 20 years ago. Then, she was fresh out of having created the Children's Department at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in NYC and had formed her own company, WJ Fantasy,...
The subject line of the email dated 1/2/10 read: OH MY GOD...I JUST GOT A LETTER THAT I THOUGHT WAS FROM YOU... and it was from Erica Green, a client who has become a dear friend. In many of my Mastermind and Transitions groups, I have the participants write a...
Last night over a 100 women came to the Fairfield Museum to be a part of Erica Green's dream event--The Big Connect. Erica shared her idea with me a year ago over lunch at Bloodroot (my favorite vegetarian restaurant). What's so great about her concept is that you...
I've been following Carrie Wittenstein's progress over the last few years. She was in one of my very first Mastermind Groups a few years ago when her dream of a 'nice' community was just a twinkle in her eye. During those early sessions Carrie would bring in logo...
When Jack Canfield, author of The Success Principles, teaches us how to write an affirmation, he's specific. It needs to be in the present tense, positive, brief + several other attributes, and ending with the phrase "or something better." The implication is that...
I had the pleasure of receiving a copy of Young Guns: The Fearless Entrepreneur's Guide to Chasing Your Dreams and Breaking Out on Your Own by Robert Tuchman last week. Riding in on the train Thursday night from CT to NYC, I had the opportunity to finish the quick...
My good friend Cookie sent me an article clipped from the NYTimes. It was from the obituary column--the ones written by family and friends to honor the deceased, not one of the separate articles written by the Times as a tribute to the luminary. Her note said, "On...
I had the good fortune yesterday to see a preview performance of this extraordinary woman's new show Let Me Down Easy. Anna Deavere Smith embodies over 20 different characters and ...explores the power of the body, the price of health, and the resilience of the...
(Illustration by Maggie Swanson) Today is the opening of the Artsy Girls exhibit at the Pierce Ball Gallery in Stamford. The Hour, my local newspaper, gave us an incredible write-up with illustrations in yesterday's paper. I'll be at the gallery today from 1 - 5...
That was the message that stayed with me after hearing Pamela Slim speak yesterday at the EWN meeting--the season opener attended by nearly 100 women (a few guys, too) business owners. She is the author of Escape from Cubicle Nation: From Corporate Prisoner to...
A good friend recently lent me an audio file of It's Not About the Money by Bob Proctor*. Driving to and from my speaking engagement in Natick, MA last week afforded me quality and quantity listening time. I heard the entire book on that expedition--about 5-6 hours...
I had the most amazing opportunity this morning! As Speaker Chair for the upcoming WBDC Breakfast, I got to connect our stellar interviewer, Becky Surran, with our featured guest, Dr. Candida Brush, Division Chair in Entrepreneurship at Babson College, via phone...
On Monday night over 30 women gathered at the magnificent Eileen Fisher store at the Westchester in White Plains, NY. These were women business owners who came from three states (NY, CT and NJ) to meet other remarkable women and exchange ideas and inspiration. Here...
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