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And blessed… As contemporary women, we really have little to complain about in the boredom department. The world is our oyster. Yet, with all those choices comes some heavy duty responsibility. In the last nine months, my professional life has been completely transformed. Early this year, I made the decision to dive full time into becoming the entrepreneur I was “meant to be”. As a single mother, this decision had to meet all kinds of needs. Once those needs were met, how would I reach my goals while maintaining the values I was fighting for?
Realizing that I had made the right choice i…

Looking at the landscape outside your hotel window, it is difficult to know where you are. Gray, craggy mountains loom out of an ocean so clear and turquoise, it resembles gel toothpaste. Were it not for the barren terrain, the silvery sheets of ice on the ground, and the whistle of freezing air, you’d think you were someplace tropical.

Some frozen cousin to Hawaii, perhaps? After all, there are even volcanoes. Everywhere, vents of steam shoot upward from ground. Geysers erupt in the distance in sprays of scalding water. All over the country, tourists and locals alike are enjoying a dip i…

Saujani for Congress: It’s time to pump new blood into the tired New York delegation

Sunday, September 5th 2010, 4:00 AM

It has been 18 years since a challenger has defeated an incumbent member of Congress from New York City. So it takes more than a little moxie for an upstart not only to take on a veteran, but to run strong.

Reshma Saujani has managed both feats in the district that encompasses Manhattan’s East Side and part of western Queens. In the process, she has highlighted how badly the city’s Washington delegation needs fresh ideas and energy.

A Yale Law School graduate of …

I’ve just been reading 85 Broads member Natalie Holder-Winfield’s recent column in The Huffington Post [huffingtonpost.com]#. As someone I know well, I can feel her passion, exasperation and annoyance in the line:

“…if McDonald’s, a Fortune 500 company whose brand relies on greasy fast-food, could find a way to become a good corporate citizen by adding—and profiting from—salads and smoothies, there is very little excuse for any CEO to throw up his or her hands in frustration with CSR. CEOs that can not find a way…

I’m about to put a song in your head. I’m doing it on purpose and I hope you’ll forgive me.

“Tell me what you want, what you really, really want.” The Spice Girls made those lyrics famous years ago and we’ve heard them so many times they’re burned into our conscious memory forever. But how many of us have actually thought about the question and can clearly articulate the answer? What DO you want?

It doesn’t matter whether you’re thinking about your life’s goals or what to have for dinner. I remember one time when I was having a huge food craving. I couldn’t focus on anything until…

85 Broads is partnering with The Foundation for Social Change. 85 Broads member Louise Guido is the CEO of The Foundation for Social Change – designed to help direct the resources of the private enterprise sector to solve social problems.

The Foundation for Social Change is dedicated to educating businesses that social innovation – social action programs – can benefit both their bottom line and address critical social issues. Their vision:

- To stimulate economic development through innovation, job creation, and social responsibility.

- To educate businesses how to adopt a culture of…

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…

There are only a few real rules in writing. In fact, there are so few rules to good composition that the best-ever book on the subject, The Elements of Style, is only 105 pages and tucks tidily into a Kate Spade handbag.

In business writing, and especially in writing essays for business school applications, there’s one big rule above all else: Answer the Question.

Most of you reading this blog have written business memos – even if your boss hasn’t specifically asked you a question, you know there’s a qu…

I had the opportunity to talk to some second and third year law students this past weekend. Even though they had only completed one week back at school, I could tell they were gearing up for another year full of too much work and too little sleep. You don’t have to be a busy law student to feel drained and disconnected. The following 5 questions will help you assess what changes you can make to get back more time in your day.

1. Do I Need a System? Systems are specific and consistent processes you follow to give structure to certain tasks. For example, I helped coach a client to dev…

Like many, I had been searching for that path to my deeper self and to a more meaningful life. I never could have imagined the events that would ultimately show me that path. Given the choice, I would have certainly opted for another path, but so much that comes our way in life is out of our control. I discovered that the only control I did have was that over my responses to life’s up’s and down’s. It was hair, or the loss of it, that showed me my deeper self and allowed me to connect with women across the world in far deeper and more meaningful ways. I now feel that baldness has been …