18th May 2012

A Letter To My Younger Self About A False Great Life

February 4th, 2012

This letter was created for a 2011 Letters To My Younger Self® Seminar Michele Meyer-Shipp is a Vice President and Counsel at a large insurance company, providing legal advice and counsel on a variety of employment-related matters to several internal clients.

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A Letter To My Younger Self About Standing Up for Yourself

February 4th, 2012

This letter was created for a 2011 Letters To My Younger Self ® Seminar Denise Quinn is a Vice President in a large insurance company, where she oversees strategic projects and also leads various projects within its marketing and distribution division.

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A Letter To My Younger Self About Being a Perfect Mother and Professional

February 4th, 2012

This letter was created for a 2011 Letters To My Younger Self ® Seminar Elaine Green is a Vice President at a large insurance company within the controller’s department. She chose to write to herself during a pivotal, highly pressured time in her career and personal life. It was January of 1999, during the year-end   Read More

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A Letter to My Younger Self About Finding Joy in the Unknown

June 14th, 2011

This letter was created for the book “What I Know Now About Success.”

“Definitely a Type A personality.”

“Every minute on my Blackberry is accounted for.”

“I’m the kind of person who always chooses the same route for my daily run in any given city, rather than explore a new course.”

This, in part, was Read More

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A Letter to My Younger Self About Learning to Live with MS

June 14th, 2011

This letter was written by Susan Achey at 42 years old to herself at the age of 32.

She had the life she always dreamed of working as a copywriter at an advertising agency in New York City. But the rug was pulled out from under her.

Dear Mini Me,
Everything is going great in your life.Read More

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A Letter to My Younger Self About Taking Responsibility for Your Mental and Physical Health

June 14th, 2011

This letter was created for the book “What I Know Now About Success.”

If you had met Paula Deen in high school in Albany, Georgia, you wouldn’t have been the least bit surprised. Paulann Hiers had the personality you know: gregarious, bubbly, and funny. As captain of the cheerleading squad, she was practically royalty in the South of the 1960s. “Life was just so great. I had so Read More

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A Letter to My Younger Self About the Hurt of the Twenties

June 14th, 2011

This letter was written by Kristin Brown at age 27 to herself at age 24. It was three years after her dad’s car accident and untimely death. This was compounded by the quarter-life crisis she was already experiencing.

Dear Kristin,
You’ll continue through your early twenties being single. This will seem like both a curse and a blessing. Read More

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A Letter to My Younger Self About Dividing Your Focus

June 14th, 2011

This letter is from 48-year-old Hanne Ankerson written to herself at age 25.

Hanne just had her first baby. Her husband had a good job, and she had about three semesters left before finishing her master’s degree in political science.

Dear Hanne,
You are sitting at the dining room table trying to study for an Read More

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A Letter to My Younger Self About Excellence through Perseverance

June 14th, 2011

This letter was created for a 2007 Letters To My Younger Self Seminar conducted for the Mid-Atlantic chapter of the Healthcare Businesswomen’s Association
This is a letter from Donna Cryer, CEO of CryerHealth, a patient-centric public relations firm in Washington DC. Donna was educated at Harvard and Georgetown law school, where she was president of the student bar association. Read More

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A Letter to My Younger Self About Having it All and Feeling Numb

June 8th, 2011

This letter was created for a Letters To My Younger Self Seminar conducted for Epicure Selections, a company based in Victoria, British Columbia.

Dana Nicholson launched her Epicure business in 2000, after having her first child. She was finishing a six-month maternity leave from an environmental consulting firm, where she had worked for four years in human resources.  Read More

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