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What A Difference Eleven Years Has Made To This Blog

Eleven years ago this month I published my very first blog. Eleven. Years. Ago. That was the Fall of 2008. The world was teetering on financial collapse and people were terrified. Myself included. I was four months into unemployment and uncertain what I would do next. The only thing I was sure of was that […]

What’s Missing From Social Selling

Social Selling is a big thing. Not to be confused with social marketing, simply put social selling is when salespeople use social media to find and interact directly with their prospects. The concept is not new. Salespeople have always looked for ways to connect with their prospects. When I started selling radio ads in the […]

The Commencement Speech No One Asked Me To Deliver

It will come as no surprise that I am no Scott Galloway. I have my hair, I am not a serial entrepreneur who founded nine firms and according to his latest book, The Algebra of Happiness, Notes on the Pursuit of Success, Love, and Meaning, I am paid far less by NYU for each “podium” […]

7 Reasons You Should Be Taking Notes

There was a time my mind was a steel trap. I didn’t need to take notes. Taking notes was for old people. I remembered everything and forgot nothing. But I took notes anyway. I’ve always liked taking notes. If I was sitting in a lecture or at a conference, opening to a fresh page on […]

When What Brings You Joy Is Taking A Break

It seems everyone is tidying things up. Cleaning out closets. Shredding papers. Sending clothes to Goodwill. Letting go, as Marie Kondo suggests in her book, Tidying Up (which for the record I have not read nor have I watched the Netflix series) of anything that does not bring you joy. On the one hand this […]

And Yet…This Is What Still Scares Me

I am the person who views walking into a room full of people she doesn’t know as a great adventure. I talk to strangers on a daily basis, whether it’s a conversation with a five-year old in the elevator about whether it’s going to snow or with the person bagging my groceries at Whole Foods […]