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A Night with Stars of WIKN About Success

On March 11th I enjoyed the rare, lucky experience of bringing What I Know Now About Success to life. Trish McEvoy, makeup artist and founder of Trish McEvoy, Mary Lou Quinlan, author and founder of Just Ask A Woman, and Linda Kaplan Thaler, author and founder of The Kaplan Thaler Agency all joined me at the Sony Technology Wonder Lab (just as wonderful as it sounds) for an event sponsored by New York Women in Communication. Continue reading

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Being Boring or How I Flunked Success Step #4

I’ve been stuck on Success Step 4: “You know you are not like everyone else.” This is what cosmetics entrepreneur Bobbi Brown tells herself in high school, meaning ‘You are not tall, blonde, athletic and capable of comprehending Algebra, like all your friends.’ Continue reading

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BIG Dreamers

I’ve been trying to put my finger on the quality that was so distinctive about B.I.G., a women’s organization I had the great good fortune to get to know when I gave the keynote at its first annual summit last Thursday. Energy poured out, as the “pods” of this fast-growing organization connected with Continue reading

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A Letter To My Younger Self about saying no

During a recent speech at Novartis in Cambridge, MA, a special woman was listening remotely from an office in New Jersey: Meryl  Zausner. Meryl is the Chief Financial Officer of Novartis Corporation and a member of the company’s Executive Committee. She’s also one of the first executive women I worked with on a letter, destined to be read in one of my first seminars at the Healthcare Businesswomen’s Association‘s national conference. Continue reading

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Success Step No. 2 for Women: “How wide a frame can you put around your future?”

Wow—this week’s success lesson from Cathie Black, President of Hearst Magazines, could not have been better aligned with my schedule.

Cathie chose to write to her younger self when she was working with Gloria Steinem at the recently launched Ms magazine. Continue reading

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Success Steps for Women – Step 1

I’m working on my Success Steps—lessons from thirty-three ultra-achieving women in What I Know Now About Success. Each woman picked a time in her life when she was struggling, or when success seemed very far away. Then we collaborated on a letter to her younger self, containing a message about success that she wishes she’d known at that moment.

Now I’m taking these lessons to heart by trying to apply them, week by week, to my life and my small (but fun and growing!) company. Where will I be at the end of thirty-three weeks? Keep an eye out here and let me know how I’m doing…. Continue reading

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