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The Millennials (Gen Y) and their younger siblings, Gen Z, are shaking things up in the modern workplace, and I love it â which is a good thing, seeing as Iâm mom to four of them. Not content to sit s...
You know those women who plan out their lives and everything goes pretty much according to schedule? Well, Iâm not one of them. Iâm an âaccidental businesspersonâ who landed in corporate America throu...
Alexa doesnât live at our house. When we installed our Sonos sound system, we purposefully decided we could handle the âinconvenienceâ of having to select a playlist on our phones rather than barking ...
One summer evening in 1973, my parents drove my siblings and me, piled in the way-back of our Bonneville wagon, past a crumbling public housing project downtown. âThe only difference between you and t...
After a year of hearing a continuous loop of âyouâll never look backâ and âyouâll love itâ, I still have a hard time recognizing the âbenefitsââ of my newly empty nest. Iâm still looking back, and I d...
At Roaring Brook Elementary School, in my little suburban Connecticut town, a major rite of passage for second graders is Special Persons Day. Each student chooses one special person in their life, dr...
About 18 years ago, two of the major insurers in our part of Connecticut instituted massive layoffs. Many highly-skilled, accomplished mid-level professionals were soon out on the street looking for w...
I met my friend Anne Marie through her daughter, Nicole, a classmate of my son Jacksonâs at Roaring Brook Elementary School. One day I ran into Anne Marie in the school parking lot minutes before the ...
Kelley and I are serial entrepreneurs. Prepare to Launch U is not the first business start-up rodeo for either of us. Creating something and being our own bosses is just what weâre wired to do.
Throu...
When I left Xerox Corporation to stay home with my firstborn Tucker, back in 1994, I was surprised about what I missed most about my work life. It wasnât the familiar connection with clients and colle...
Kelley and I met in the summer of 2016 at a womenâs conference where we were both keynote speakers. Up first, I shared colorful stories of career-returners meant to entertain and, most importantly, to...
If you work in a âhelpingâ field, every once in a while you really fall for a client. (Actually, for me it happens all too often â but, anyway âŚ) A delightfully warm woman named Regina came to me rece...
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