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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…
Herewith, three “gifts” one 40-something would give a 20-something as their “Forty-Godmother”. What are yours? 1. The ability to teach people how to treat you. It’s how you treat yourself. You have to value and honor yourself or no one else is going do it. 2. Time and space to grow. I think you know […] Read more…
Today’s a short post to share an interview I did with Bonnie Gleicher at BlackBookMag. She was an insightful interviewer and we had a fun time talking about 40:20 Vision’s inspiration and the development of the 7X7 Mentoring Salons — these are offline mentoring events where I curate groups of older / younger […] Read more…
A few months ago we had a 20-something guest post from Heather Sundall reflecting on the movie This is 40 from Judd Apatow. She related the 40-life crisis the couple played by Paul Rudd and Leslie Mann had as they struggled with turning forty and facing a hormonal daughter, business failure and expanding waistlines. Heather […] Read more…
Today’s post is about not get distracted by other people’s pace. Sometimes it seems everyone is going faster than you – but it’s not necessarily a race. I hold live mentoring salons between younger and older entrepreneurs and professionals and during our discussions, this subject often comes up. One 20-something business owner asked: How […] Read more…
Herewith, three “gifts” one 40-something would give a 20-something as their “Forty-Godmother”. What are yours? 1. You don’t have to go through life A.B.C.D. It can be B.C.A.D. And there’s some letters you never even heard about that are incredible. It’s off the charts. It turns out that more and more great things unfold. You may […] Read more…
I love this guest post by Ruthie Friedlander…a 20-something who has been living a bit of 40:20 Vision her whole life. A prescient perspective on the divides we find in our 20s and our 40s. Wisdom for all! The Great Split By Ruthie Friedlander For most of my childhood, grownups have told me that I […] Read more…
Today’s post is from s 40-something reflecting on “what she knows now” about career, being a woman and self-worth: ~ “In my twenties I really didn’t appreciate the glass ceiling thing. I have three brothers. I was a tomboy. I thought, “I’m going to show them that women are just as good. Watch me rock […] Read more…