Or, maybe more honestly, how to quit working at (most) stuff you dislike and focus on doing what you love, since that’s still a ton of work. I mean, I love my small business but I work ALL. THE. TIME. But at least I have a pretty awesome boss…hint hint. Anyway, I was lucky enough…
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“I’ve been in a severe, to put it mildly, ‘rut,’ for the last few years, and my life leading up to those years, I did not use to set myself up for success the way I should have.” -L. I’m a big fan of people creating the “luck” they need, but really by “luck,” what…
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“…in life, as in other mysteries, there are no answers, only questions…part of the process…is to refine the question.”- Norman Mailer I recently read a masterful re-telling of the Cinderella story by Tanith Lee. It’s long, and very worth it; a much darker, much angrier and really quite sad version of the story. Read it, tell me…
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Oh my. This hand grenade of a phrase was tossed in the middle of an otherwise muted, low-key, innocuous conversation I recently had with an old friend. We were making plans to do some outdoorsy activities and suddenly in the middle of everything, my friend gazed solemnly into the distance and said, portentously, “Well, Carlota,…
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I’m not one of those people who dwell, with misty-eyed nostalgia, on the “golden years” of high school. Dear god, no. I went to Saint Ann’s School, a pretentious artsy private high school, but despite how irritating I find many of my fellow alumni, there are many other aspects of my education which continue to benefit…
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On March 30, 2015 at 1:00pm ET, I’ll be co-hosting, with my occasional nemesis/partner-in-crime/dear friend Marie Segares, the March segment of our “No Frills Small Business” podcast. Here’s a teaser for what we’ll be kvetching talking about: small business advice; how and why our respective small businesses saved and re-built our lives; our hard-worn life lessons and…
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(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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Clearly I’ve been coaching for too long, because when a client recently said that to me, my inner memaw immediately popped up and snappishly responded, “Well then, they’re NOT your friends.” And I still stand by that. Listen: I don’t have some romantic notion of friendship. Friendship, like any other relationship between humans, is damn…
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