Tuesday night we had a great group of women on Honestly Chat with Honestly Now. One of the questions that came up from the 20-somethings was: “What about the “timeline”? I feel most 20-somethings feel pressure to follow the marriage and kids timeline”. Many of the 40-something women I interview felt that pressure too. […] Read more…
Posts Tagged ‘20-something’
The Friendship Curve: Friends at Forty
Today is week three in a 40-something woman’s six-week journal of her “time out”. After quitting her job and spending time with her parents, she is continuing to capture what she is experiencing now and how it’s different from her 20s. Today she is writing about friendships at 40 vs. 20. Friends are another thing […] Read more…
Honest Talk at Honestly Now
Today I’m braving new ground (yes I know breaking… but braving is more what I mean). I’m entering the world of tweet chats. I couldn’t be more excited than to be a guest on #HonestlyChat with Tereza Nemessanyi of Honestly Now. I meet Tereza a few weeks ago and we couldn’t stop talking! From hearing […] Read more…
Negotiating Your First Salary
I recently had the pleasure of interviewing Carol Frohlinger lawyer, negotiation expert, co-founder of Negotiating Women, Inc. and author of Her Place at the Table: A Woman’s Guide to Negotiating Five Key Challenges to Leadership Success (Jossey-Bass/John Wiley, September 2004). She recently co-authored Nice Girls Just Don’t Get It: 99 Ways to Win the Respect […] Read more…
Three Gifts for a Twenty-Something (34)
Every time I interview a 40-something woman for 40:20 Vision I ask them what 3 “gifts” would they give a 20-something if they were a “Forty-Godmother”. Here are one woman’s gifts: 1. Awareness of the self=confidence that’s already there. You don’t have to “get” confidence…you only have to figure out how to feel it. It’s […] Read more…
40:20 Vision on The Huffington Post
Check out the latest 40:20 Vision piece on The Huffington Post. One woman’s story of what happens when you have doubts but walk down the aisle anyway. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/christina-vuleta/marriage-cold-feet_b_923330.html Read more…
What to Do? Choose a Direction and Permission to Change It
Q. Everyone says, “Do what you love”. I don’t know what I love because I’ve spent my life trying to do what will be “best,” what will “work,” and what will be a success. I just turned 25 and I’m an executive assistant at a hedge fund, a job I was promised would lead to […] Read more…
How Important is Friendship in a Marriage?
“It isn’t marriage that’s hard, messy, difficult and complicated, it’s life itself. Opting out of marriage doesn’t avoid any of life’s struggles or heartbreaks. But going through life married to your best friend means doubling the joys and halving the sorrows. This quote was from an article in Newsweek debating the necessity of marriage […] Read more…