These five insights come from a 40-something woman who went from investment banking to starting her own business in her mid thirties. Her thoughts on what she learned as an investment banker that continues to help her and her business thrive today: 1. “Approach your job as an education. If you look at it as a […] Read more…
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Finding Your Path: Breaking the Rules…Then Making Your Own
We spend the first 20 years of our lives being asked what we want to be when we grow up. Then we spend the next 20 finding out for ourselves. That’s the subject of my column at The Daily Muse…a community for women who are passionate about doing great things, at work and in life. My […] Read more…
It’s Not Easy Making A Decision to Do Nothing
Today’s post is some words of wisdom from a 40-something, mom, wife and consultant who has made many shifts in her life…some planned and others unplanned. Through her own shift from corporate life to consultancy, she became involved in a long term research project on workplace flexiblity. These are a few key things she knows […] Read more…
Fail. Fail. Fail. Trust Me.
One 40-something woman’s message to 20-somethings on embracing failure. “Fail a lot in your twenties. I read a book in my twenties that was about not being afraid to fail and I never was. I came from a small town in Pennsylvania and I got an internship at MTV in New York. There were all […] Read more…
Itemize Your Fear to Help You Embrace Risk
Last night I went to a panel at the 92nd Street Y with my Flash Friday partner and 20-something bounty of perspective, Molly Ford of Smart, Pretty and Awkward. Always a fun 20:40 exchange! The panel touched on the “risks and rewards that we face when forging new paths” from women who pioneered in the […] Read more…
7×7 Alum Advice: 10 Recommendations for Start-ups Looking to Raise Capital
Today I’m re-blogging a post written based the keynote speech Nithya Das gave for the 2011 Pipeline Fund Fellowship Pitch Summit. The Pipeline Fellowship trains women philanthropists to become angel investors through education, mentoring, and practice. Nitha Das is legal counsel at AppNexus and was formerly an associate at Goodwin Procter LLP where she created […] Read more…
It’s Not You…It’s Them. Don’t Let it Get in Your Way
This woman shares her perspective on negative co-workers, baggage and perfection. Her philosophy of not letting your energy get bogged down has given her the drive to navigate the corporate world and get to a place where she calls the shots — leading, managing and creating solutions. On being on the receiving end of “office […] Read more…
Links That Made Me Think This Week
Links that made me think this week (and that I didn’t get a chance to tweet:) Sheryl Sandberg: Luck, Resignation or Rallying Cry? A flurry of articles on Sheryl Sandberg, COO of Facebook raised the noise on women in the board room to a new level. Yeah! What’s interesting to me is the breadth […] Read more…