There were 500 attendees to hear David Gergen speak yesterday morning at the WBDC's Business Breakfast entitled: Power, Politics & Purse Strings (giving it the female slant). Besides great networking, the spirit of the room and the opportunity to re-connect...
"Oh, hello Oprah. Yes, can I call you back? I'm in the middle of my Come As You'll Be event." I explained to the assembled superstars at my networking event that now, in the year 2016, I have limited my coaching practice to the most successful women entrepreneurs...
Whatta night! It started at Kate Eisemann's very cool new photography studio in a prime retail location in Wilton, CT. Her goal last September, when she came into my Mastermind Group, was to have 20 of her images on display in her own studio by January 2009. She...
Whenever I have a big idea that I want to capture, I use a mind-map to dump out everything I'm thinking. It's a simple and elegant tool I learned way back when I first discovered goal-setting. For me, it's a non-linear way to brainstorm, and it works. As you can...
Last night I attended another outstanding WBDC event in Stamford featuring Faith Middleton who has become an ardent supporter of their mission to help women entrepreneurs. Her talk focused on WBDC's success stories--women who had started and are thriving in...
I had the pleasure last week of being invited to an authors' lunch and pool party at my friend and colleague's home in Greenwich. I've been declining most lunch invitations as they break up my work day. But I rationalized that this was work-related. Sheri is an...
Here's why I love blogging! When I posted the piece about getting one's product into O magazine--and how it can unexpectedly temporarily overwhelm a business--my intention was simply to report what I noticed. The incident stood out for me because I felt a kinship...
When I wrote my book, Soul Proprietor: 101 Lessons from a Lifestyle Entrepreneur in 2001, I had a sense of what it meant to be a lifestyle entrepreneur. But not a definition that rolled off my tongue. I talked about the bottom line being more than simply a dollar...
Last week during a long car ride, a colleague told me that he had tons of ideas. Something about that phrase--tons of ideas--struck a chord. I hear a lot of people use it. The similarity among those who say that, and why I think it sticks out for me, is that many...
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