My 2024 Word(s) of The Year
For many years, I’ve had a tradition of choosing a word of the year. Rather than setting resolutions, the word of the year gives me an overall focus, personally and professionally. I like to use it as a guiding principle for tough decisions and situations. When I’m not sure how to move forward, I can […]
Sick Days Are a Generational Issue
Do you use all of your sick days? If you’re a people leader, do you positively acknowledge when your employees do? This is a generational issue. A recent article in The Wall Street Journal addressed the so-called “problem” of younger employees using up all of their sick days. According to the article, employees between ages […]
Small Wellbeing Steps Make a Big Difference
“Leap, and the net will appear” is a quotation I definitely pasted in a journal or on a vision board at some point in my early twenties. The amazing thing is that it’s true. During the early months of the pandemic, I started speaking and writing more publicly about the fact that I struggle with […]
5 Tips to Become a More Confident Writer
They say the best book to write is the one you wish you had and couldn’t find — and that’s exactly why I wrote Getting From College to Career, which was first published back in 2007. I really struggled to start my career in my 20s, and I wrote the book to help make […]
Interview with “eager first time author” Julie Kraut, co-author of Hot Mess: Summer in the City
One of the best perks of my job as a writer is that I get a lot of free books to read and review. Normally I don’t write about fiction, but today I’m writing about fiction. Why? Because young novelist Julie Kraut hugely impressed me by following one of my golden rules of networking. Julie, […]