Q. Dear 40-somethings, This guy and I are both 22. He is working at a well-known company and I’m pursuing my post grad. We met 10 months ago through a common friend. At first we had light and casual rapport in a group environment. He always would tell me that he had a crush […] Read more…
May 2013 archive
Mentor Monday: 7×7 Alum Shares Advice on Selling A Business
A few weeks ago Bernstein Global Wealth Management sponsored a 7×7 Mentoring Salon on entrepreneurship. With host Jeyran Ghara, a financial advisor at Bernstein, and lead mentors Stephanie Torosian, Senior Investment Planning Analyst and Joanne Wilson, Gotham Gal blogger and WEF co-founder and angel investor, we had plenty of hindsight and foresight to help female entrepreneurs […] Read more…
Three Gifts for A 20-Something (114)
Herewith, three “gifts” one 40-something would give a 20-something as their “Forty-Godmother”. What are yours? 1. Set some type of roadmap. The road always turns and that’s okay…but I think it is important to say mentally where you want to be and then at least you know what you are turning away from and […] Read more…
There Are Many Ways of Mothering
“Just like there are many ways of being a woman and there are many ways of raising a happy person. “ I recently read this quote from an interview I did with a 40-something woman. She was from South America, moved here in her twenties and built a successful career in architecture. I always find […] Read more…
Getting Paid What You Are Worth…Are Undervaluing Yourself?
From the stats showing women don’t negotiate as well as men to the reality that we still don’t get equal pay, the fact is women have to get better at asking for money….their own money At one of my 7×7 Mentoring Salons we put the question on the table: Q. How do […] Read more…
Three Gifts For A 20-Something (113)
Herewith, three “gifts” one 40-something would give a 20-something as their “Forty-Godmother”. What are yours? 1. Experimentation. You have all the ingredients. Use your twenties to experiment with your recipe. Try new things and figure out what your secret ingredient is ….the unique tweaks that make the recipe all yours. 2. Your own […] Read more…
Throwback Thursday: On Faking It Till You Make It
A forty-something I spoke to had an interesting take on acting confident on the outside when you may not feel it on the inside. When you consider that everyone is “faking it”, you can be more open and less judgmental. One of my professors in graduate school always told me that […] Read more…
Make Your Own Connections
Sometimes you just have to go n a direction. That’s the advice of a just turned 50-something founder and angel investor. She told me: “Most people don’t know ‘what their passion is’. If you do …you are lucky. But what do you gravitate toward? Dig into that. Find ways to apply those interests. Then, […] Read more…