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The Advice I’m Giving Me

I give good advice. Really good advice. About a number of things. Marketing. Reinventing. Personal Branding. Selling. People pay me for my advice. But here’s the thing – sometimes I’m so busy doling out that advice that I forget to look in the mirror. That’s right. I don’t always listen to me. Sometimes […]

How A Ride-Sharing App Changed My Life

The unthinkable happened last Saturday night enroute to the Norwood. I took a taxi. The yellow cab variety. The kind I’ve taken my whole life and who as I have watched Uber lead the disruption of the industry and their business start to sag, I genuinely felt sorry for – at least until recently. I […]

8 Tips To Optimize Your Next Networking Event

It’s that time of the year. My calendar is full of events and conferences to attend before I go hibernating in January. A friend who is taking some time off to figure out what she wants to do with the rest of her life recently asked how I optimize my time at these events. It’s a fair […]

How I Built My Network

I was raised by people who liked to talk to strangers. The combination of their Greek ancestry and the fact they were both born and raised in the boroughs at a time when neighborhoods in New York City were truly small towns developed in both of them an ability to strike up a conversation with […]

Why It’s Still Important To Do Your Homework

Once upon a time I was a shy kid who liked doing her homework. It was never something I was forced to do. I took great pride in it – at times driving my mother a bit crazy in my quest for perfectionism, relentless as I double and triple checked my work for mistakes. That fondness […]