Today’s guest post is from 7×7 Mentoring Salon alum and founder of A.MOET, Allegra Moet Brantly. As part of my mission to start conversations and facilitate mentoring between generations, I run mentoring salons between 7 more experienced women and 7 young professionals on a variety of topics from entrepreneurship to personal finance. There is always […] Read more…
Archive of ‘Career & Finance’ category
7 Rules To Start Living By to Grow Into Leadership
Today’s post shares some insight from a 40-something woman and high level executive in the financial industry. She talked with me about a few of her tips for succeeding in a tough and competitive field based on her experience and mentoring work specifically in finance. Lead by example. Don’t tell someone to do something […] Read more…
Flash Friday: What Having It All Really Means
The 20-Something Perspective By Molly Ford Christina and I have been writing the Flash Fridays, where we look at an issue from two perspectives: the 20-something and the 40-something, for almost a year now. Once we’ve figured out a topic, I handle the 20-something perspective on the issue. For research on the topic, I usually […] Read more…
Making Yourself Invaluable
First, safe harbors to all those affected by Hurricane Sandy. I found this quote to be relevant for this time and for over time as we deal with sorrows in our life. “As long as sorrow doesn’t replace resilience we’ll be just fine.” —Christopher J. Christie As for my post today I’m following up on a post from Monday on […] Read more…
How Do I Demand Respect?
Dear 40-Somethings, I recently graduated from University and I’m working as a Sales and Marketing Assistant. I have been here for close to a year and I have found that the hands-on experience is very valuable, especially in learning professional interpersonal communications. That is, when no one rocks the boat. Recently things between our […] Read more…
20-Something Startup To Crowd-Fund Student Loan Donations Through Volunteering
I met Sabrina Norrie, co-founder of Zero Bound when she came to one of my 7×7 mentoring salons for aspiring and early stage entrepreneurs. I was an instant fan of her startup – a platform for students and alumni to reduce student loan debt through sponsored volunteerism. In exchange for volunteering, students and graduates who are […] Read more…
Stop Setting Perfect as The Expectation
This weekend I came across this article about “Why Millennials Women Do Not Want to Lead”. One of the things I thought was interesting was the author’s point that women associate leadership with perfection in a way men don’t. And that to lead, one needs to embrace imperfection. It makes sense. Imperfection imparts authenticity and […] Read more…
How To Define Your Destiny – Choices vs Change
I spoke about balance on Friday and it reminded me of a conversation I had with a group of amazing women in Phoenix AZ. All mothers, mostly married, all good friends who had stayed together through highs, lows, kids and careers that took from the White House to Microsoft. Their insight on the choices they […] Read more…