Q. I’ve been seeing a guy for two months who I like but I don’t know if he wants a long-term relationship or just a fun buddy. He’s very busy between work, playing a sport, and renovating his house. It’s hard to spend a lot of time with him because I work at […] Read more…
March 2013 archive
You Make The Best Decision You Can
The other week I had dinner with a friend– a mom and top-level executive at a global company in the tech industry. With that comes a 200% commitment for getting her job done, which she couldn’t do without support from her husband, transparency and flexibility at work and setting some personal boundaries. That is […] Read more…
Three Gifts for a 20-Something (107)
Herewith, three “gifts” one 40-something would give a 20-something as their “Forty-Godmother”. What are yours? 1. Just know that the pain of a breakup is finite. Breakups are a hangover. They can be awful but they do go away. You think you will never drink again…but you do. And you love again. 2. Do you. […] Read more…
26.2 Impossibilities: 20-Somethings Run To Fund Girls’ Education
I’m truly inspired by today’s guest post about a 20-something’s transition to the real world and story of how she learned a lot more than discipline and tips on how to run a marathon along the way. Erin Leigh is running a marathon on Sunday. She’s running on behalf of She’s The First, an organization that sponsors girls’ […] Read more…
Musings from SXSW: Work/Life Change, Anne Marie Slaughter and Permission
I just got back from this year’s SXSW interactive festival in Austin. In addition to catching up with my 20-something roommate from NYC who is now an “Austinite”, I met a ton of fascinating people, ate great food and got to hear amazing people speak. Many of the panels I went to focused on […] Read more…
Three Gifts for a 20-Something (106)
Today’s three gifts are from a panel at SXSW interactive festival. The panel was given by Jessica Lawrence, Executive Director of the New York Tech Meetup, on the myth of the female amibition gap in tech. There is a great article on the panel here. Here are some wishes based on her panel! 1. Ambition. […] Read more…
It’s Not What You Put In, It’s What You Throw Out
6. “It’s not what you put in, it’s what throw out.” This the last in my series of “lessons learned” from Tropfest’s RoughCut film symposium in NYC. In addition to interesting speakers and insider expertise, I got some great 40:20 Vision. I love going to events simply because they interest me and then realizing […] Read more…
High-Five Your Failure
I have been reading The Startup Playbook by David Kidder and I loved this excerpt about Sara Blakely, the founder of Spanx and youngest self-made female billionaire. What a wondeful lesson her father taught her and perhaps one that is never too late to learn. This week focus start asking yourself, “What did I fail at?” When I was […] Read more…