Archive for September, 2008

August 2009: Dynamic Women Entrepreneurs descending on Disney

Tuesday, September 30th, 2008

DWEI am excited to announce that I’ve been asked to speak at The Dynamic Women Entrepreneurs event, Aug 7-9, 2009 at The Boardwalk Resort in Walt Disney World®.

Women today continue to start and grow entrepreneurial businesses at an unprecedented rate. The Dynamic Women Entrepreneur event announces an expert panel (including me!) and an engaging agenda slated to provide invaluable advice and resources for women entrepreneurs.

Some of the expert speakers, besides myself include:Tamara Monosoff and PR-guru Peter Shankman from Help-a-Reporter-Out fame.

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Learning from other’s success

Monday, September 15th, 2008

This weekend was one of those rare occasions when I actually sat down on a Sunday morning to read the newspaper. Ok, so I was sitting at my daughter’s lacrosse practice waiting for her and not at home in my PJ’s snuggled on the couch, but that didn’t detract from the joy and solace of it (well…not REALLY). I was captivated by an article in the Washington Post called 4 Captivating Companies and What They Share. In it, they profiled 4 companies they claim we ‘care’ about: Starbucks, Apple, Google, and Amazon. Though I’m not sure those are the four I would have picked, they had some interesting observations about what these companies do that are special that can be applied to almost any business.

 

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Doing Your Homework

Tuesday, September 9th, 2008

Stupid!My daughter is not the only one who is struggling with homework. I made a classic newbie entrepreneur mistake. I reached out to a potential client without looking at the news and made a fool of myself. What a bonehead.

 

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The notion of having it all

Friday, September 5th, 2008

The debate that is raging around Governor Sarah Palin’s nomination as the Republican VP candidate got me thinking about a lot of things. I won’t go into them all now, but the one I want to address here is this notion of having it all.

One woman on the Working Mother Magazine’s Momblog seemed concerned that Sarah Palin can’t have it all successfully – something will have to give.

The problem I have with that notion is what the idea of having it all really means. To me, being the Vice President of the United States doesn’t rank anywhere NEAR the vision I have for myself or my family. To me, that is the anti-having-it-all, but that is my point: TO ME. I think having it all is a state of mind. An individual’s mind. That means that it is highly personal. One woman’s all is another woman’s hell.

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Sarah Palin and Work/Life Balance

Thursday, September 4th, 2008


I am incensed that the topic of work/life balance is back in the spotlight just because a woman with young children is putting her hat in the ring to take on a major leadership role. I’m mad not because work/life balance isn’t a worthy topic (it is one close to my heart) but because of the context in which it is being raised.

 

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