Good and Mad in Maine
The trees were ablaze with orange and gold, their fiery foliage blazing against the brilliant blue sky. Their bold statement of intent to transition to the quiet of winter was the optimal setting for a writing retreat with Rebecca Traister. For there, tucked in a cozy...
The Power of Exclusion: How Everyday Misogyny Holds Women Back at Work
My former client, Lisa, tells the story of how her manager with whom she had a great relationship did not invite her on an all day golf outing yet invited all her male counterparts. Lisa, not one to stay silent, had lunch with him a couple of weeks later and asked...
She Didn’t Start Over. She Built on 25 Years of Experience
After more than two decades advising private wealth and institutional investors, Maryann Selfe is applying her experience in capital allocation, manager selection and portfolio construction to one of healthcare’s most overlooked investment opportunities: women’s...
Give Me a Break!!
I’ve worked hard my whole adult life. I’ve built careers, raised children, written books, spoken on stages, coached, interviewed hundreds of women, and constantly challenged myself to do more, learn more, accomplish more. I’m a lifelong high achiever. Which sounds...
“No” is Not the End of the Story
“One day, all of this will vanish. This brick and mortar and dogma. Gentlemen, women are coming to Cambridge.” I heard those words spoken a week ago watching Virginia Woolf’s Night & Day, the new film adaptation of Woolf’s 1919 novel. In the film, Katharine...
The Career Ladder is the Old Story. The Kaleidoscope is the New One.
For most of our working lives, we’ve been handed the same story: Your career is a ladder. Climb it. Don’t step off. Don’t move sideways. And whatever you do, don’t leave a gap! And we’re told that’s ambition. But Author and Journalist, Helen Jonsen, offers another...
Change the Game. Don’t Just Teach Women to Play It.
A couple of weeks ago, my newsletter addressed the topic that Women aren’t the Problem. The System is. For decades we have been carrying the burden of adapting to systems that weren’t designed for us and, in fact, work against us due to the bias ingrained in their...
Power Isn’t Enough. You Need to Know When and How to Use it.
After I published my interview with Jaqueline Sussman, on The Power Women Were Taught to Hide, last week, I received this comment from a reader. “It’s one thing to know you have power. It’s another thing to know when and how to use it—especially when it matters.” She...
The Power Women Were Taught To Hide
I’m launching a new Badass Women at Any Age interview series on Substack: My first conversation is with Jaqueline Sussman, whose life's work has centered on helping women discover the authentic self beneath years of conditioning. What is your personal story, and how...