Joanne Tombrakos

My Anti-Aging Secret

I’m guest posting today at Endless Beauty a great website that focuses on women leveraging good health to achieve great beauty. Stop over and check it out! http://endlessbeauty.com/articles/my-anti-aging-secrets-or-how-take-ten-years-your-face

Pausing to Remember

Nine years ago today I laid out my party clothes on my bed before I went to the office. September 11 was the date of our annual client gala at Tavern on the Green and my plan was to stop home and change before the event. I had just returned from a week hiking in […]

Coffee is for Closers

People dislike the word sell. It implies capitalism, bureaucracy, lying, persuading, untruth. Visions of sleazy, unfulfilled men with loosened ties, wrinkled shirts and worn briefcases a la Death of a Salesman come to mind. And for me, always, Alec Baldwin’s classic tirade in Glengarry Glen Ross. People tell me all the time that they could […]

Integrity

I was in a discussion the other day about my former life, the one in which I sold commercial time on radio and TV stations. “So you sold air! You were really selling nothing.”“Yes, that is true. I sold an intangible, something you were unable to hold in your hand unless someone dubbed a copy […]

September Shoes

I felt it last week when I saw September 1 on my calendar. The compulsion to go and buy a new notebook and sharpen some pencils. Or at least buy a new pair of shoes. All those rituals of late summer we persist hoping it will make us forget the season is almost over. Last week I […]

Do You Know When?

I got into a conversation with a grounds supervisor at the US Open Tennis yesterday. I remarked that he must get all sorts of crazy questions posed to him from ticket holders. He responded with an easy laugh and a shake of his head. “You have no idea! You want to know what they ask […]