I just saw today’s date out of the corner of my eye — Friday, November 4 — and it gave me a start. November 4. When did that happen?! I knew it was November, of course. It was Halloween on Monday, and then the next day it was November 1…

A reminder from the midst of my 10-year-old daughter’s anxiety crisis that helping other people really does help us — My daughter came home from sleep-away camp swearing she’d never go again. She missed us too much, she said. She cried every day. “I even cried in the POOL,” she told us, which is extra heartbreaking, because water is this child’s happy place. Camp had given us a heads up…

In this moment, as we reinvent the world of work, it’s well past time that we also reinvent the way we search for work. Specifically, we need to embrace online career storytelling as the best way to attract jobs and other meaningful opportunities. It kills me when I encounter someone…

Earlier today, a man on the street thought I was my daughter’s grandmother. First of all, a quick PSA to dudes on streets everywhere (as well as indoor dudes, and really, all dudes, and you know what, it’s not about gender, I’m addressing everyone, here): Never, ever call someone a…

I was just watching an old interview with the Ted Lasso cast (Brene Brown might think she’s the president of the Ted Lasso fan club, but I’m not so sure…) in which Juno Temple (Keeley) says she’s bad at self-promotion. I hope that hearing that even the powerhouse actor behind…

As a story coach to women CEOs and leaders at other levels across a range of industries, I get riled up when I read things like the following: “If you’re lucky, you enjoy what you do and thrive professionally but we’re not working for fun. We are working in a…

When you don’t get to see very many stories that represent your anger, you get pretty damn protective of the ones that do If you aren’t familiar with “Kevin Can F**K Himself,” then this article won’t be of interest. I don’t want to waste space explaining what it is or…

We have an opportunity, as we create a new world order, to rewrite norms around socializing that are more introvert-friendly. — The other day I had plans with friends, in-person. We met up for a birthday brunch in the garden of a local restaurant — yes, still outside, even though we’re all vaccinated, because some of us aren’t ready to go maskless in a crowded indoor space just yet. It was…