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…
Posts Tagged ‘40-something’
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…
Dreams Take Shape When You Can See Yourself Clearly
Over the fourth of July I read “The One That I Want”, a novel by Allison Winn Scotch. It was a great beach read but also a story of the journey from 20 to 40 – or rather the journey to knowing oneself. A woman coming to terms with seeing things they way they are […] Read more…
Negotiating Women, Inc co-founder, Carol Frohlinger on Hidden Bias In the Workplace
I recently had the pleasure of interviewing Carol Frohlinger, lawyer, negotiation expert, co-founder of Negotiating Women, Inc. and co-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 (33)
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. A passport! And use it. Travel. Go places. Go see something because honestly, once you get grown up and you have a family […] Read more…