Tag: guest blogs

How to talk to a co-worker with a disability

My friend Leslie Martin-Breslin and I met several years ago, when she had written a book about her father’s battle with Alzheimer’s. Leslie had read my piece for Huffington Post, So, You Want to Write a Book?, and she was interested in my marketing advice for authors.  When we were able to laugh after a tumultuous conversation regarding…
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February 27, 2016 0

Youth Leadership

[Next month, I’ll be lucky enough to give my third CUNY workshop, helping currently-enrolled college students use the resources they have at hand, to create the professional opportunities they need to achieve aspirations and ambitions. Corny as it sounds, each time I interact with these exceptional students, I come away feeling that I’m the lucky one.…
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September 19, 2015 0

So, you want an MBA: 6 steps to making your MBA work for you!

  It’s September, and many of us are thinking about how to change our lives in ways, big and small. One very popular method, is to get your MBA. If you’re contemplating getting your MBA, or if you’re currently enrolled in business school, and want to ensure that your financial sacrifice has the desired positive impact upon…
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September 7, 2015 0

“Only One Person Gets to be Crazy at a Time.”

(I met Joanna Blais, the wife in this hilarious, smart, earthy, loving, ADORABLE couple, at a workshop I gave this past January at the Queens Council on the Arts…and we immediately clicked. We spent a good half hour of her free consultation on the phone just making each other cackle. When she introduced me to…
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March 21, 2015 0

“’Doing Feminism Wrong’: The Struggle of Being a Young Feminist on the Internet”

(On February 23, 2015, I moderated a panel at Social Media Week NYC 2015, helping young female professionals and artists understand how helpful social media, and by extension, on-line communities and networks in general, could be to identifying and achieving their career goals. Rafaella Gunz attended my panel, and that panel led to us following…
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March 19, 2015 0