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As students and faculty return to college campuses this fall, there is a new push to engage the educational community with social media tools. Yesterday Facebook announced its Universities on Facebook Page, featuring ads for discount products and details on how to involve your specific educational community through the use of Facebook Pages. While this attempt to get back to Facebook’s .edu roots falls well short of creating any type of comprehensive or custom solution for colleges and universities, but may suffice for dormitory connectivity, the announcement is certainly indicative of a gr…

If we can face life’s challenges feeling good about ourselves, we can often meet those challenges with more clarity, more determination, and more understanding. At no time is such love of self more important than when fighting cancer. And yet many women find their love of self to be compromised by the emotions stirred when they find a bald, “sick-looking” person staring back at them in the mirror. Even women who rise above self-deflating thoughts must guard against the public stares, looks of pity and unsolicited comments that remind them that they visually represent cancer simply becaus…

The kids are back in school! Now it’s time to focus on you!

You just dropped off the kids for their first of day of school. Thanks to you they had the right clothes, the right supplies and the right attitude. You’ve spent hours planning after-their school activities. For the next year they will have the opportunity to expend their minds, make new friends and reach new heights.

What about you? What are your plans for the year? What are you going to try and master? What goals are you going to reach before the end of the school year?

As women we are fabulous caretakers, so much so that m…

The human side of enterprise is any gathering of people for a specific purpose. That’s it. It’s not more complicated than that.

(And if you believe that I have a bridge in…:)

Let’s give this a go and take a look at the parts. At the macro level, the enterprise is the business; at the micro level, the enterprise is a meeting, as in a leadership team meeting, a board meeting, and so on.

The purpose of the gathering is the “IT” – the driving force behind why we showed up in the first place. At the business level, the IT or ITS (plural) is to be, do or have the mission of the busin…

Two strikeout leaders in baseball are Reggie Jackson and Babe Ruth. Neither player is remembered as a strikeout leader. Still, people hear stories of great success coming only after great struggle, and this is not enough to encourage them to go after their dreams. The potential downside of failure often greatly outweighs the potential upside from success. Here are some tips to focus on the upside, especially in an anxious market that may reinforce your habit of playing it safe:

Confront the downside. What are the specific consequences of failure to meet this goal? How much money wil…

How to publish:
So many of us have a desire to publish our own work however struggle with the timed question … How do I get published?

In this article I hope I can answer some of those questions as I am well into the task at hand.

After years of coaching and speaking with women in leadership, I began to notice the lack of women leadership books. Sure there are plenty of “gender neutral” texts available; however I work very closely with Leadership Emotional Intelligence Proficiencies (another topic with few texts that focus on leadership and/or gender). So I decided to publish a book…

This past week I spent 7 days on the trail with a group of 12 women backpacking with Call of the Wild. Now, 12 women anywhere can draw attention. 12 women on the trail carrying 40 lb. backpacks crossing 11,000+ ft. mountain passes can really draw attention. You see, in the wilderness, more often than not, women are the exception rather than the rule. Men make up the majority of hikers, trekkers, backpackers, boaters, etc. When I travel solo in the wilderness, I am acutely aware of just how few women are out the trail with me, and that my likely life support in case of emergency will be…

And now for a break from our regular programming to bring you this really funny moment.

I was tweeting with power and vigor. I had just finished watching my 85Broads virtual panel on Twitter, and I felt informed and ready. I can do this! Still a little unsure why, but what they hey! I’m game. Let’s give this a whirl.

Tweet, tweet, tweet. Wahoo. 25th tweet, 54th tweet, look at me go. I’m a veteran, with each key stroke, feeling more confident.

And then it happened.

“@truecomfortcafe, can we interview you?”

OMG, I was @’ed. Someone @ me! Now what do I do?

This is the momen…