5 Reasons to Find a Money Mentor
When I was 30, I quit my job in New York City and moved to Washington D.C. for a new and improved one. The bad news is, I cashed out the funds I had saved for five years in my employer’s tax-deferred retirement plan. I of course had to pay the taxes and the penalty […]
How to Live Forever with Marc Freedman
Marc Freedman, founder and CEO of Encore.org, delivered a terrific TEDx Talk titled “How to Live Forever,” in which he explores longevity, youth, purpose and happiness, and the role older people can play in giving back to the next generation. Freedman’s book, which will have the same title, is in the works to be published […]
Are You One of The 40 Women To Watch Over 40?
Are you one of The 40 Women To Watch Over 40? Don’t stress if you’re the right sex and in the demo but didn’t make the cut this year. I’m not on it either. I generally roll my eyes at these kinds of honor rolls. Unless of course it’s People Magazine’s 2014 World’s Most Beautiful Listor Hollywood’s Hottest […]
One Woman’s Zeal to Get Female Staffers to Save
Women of all ages do the “scuffle,” as I like to call it, when it comes to saving for retirement. It always surprises me that so many women I speak with tell me they aren’t putting enough in their employer plans to get the savings match or that they left their jobs before their retirement benefits […]
Scholarships Aren’t Enough
One night, as they sat in his library sipping a $10 bottle of Meursault, Washington Redskins owner Jack Kent Cooke turned to Stuart A. Haney, his young lawyer and aide de camp, and declared: “Twenty years after I’m gone I will only be a footnote in the annals of the National Football League.” But, as […]
Mika Brzezinski’s Mentoring Gesture Left Me Cold
OK, boomer women: When’s the last time you reached out to a younger woman you don’t even know and gave her a career boost without blinking an eye? That’s what MSNBC’s Morning Joe cohost Mika Brzezinski recently did, according to an article by Peter Sterne in Capital New York last week. Sterne says that Mika (I’ll use her first name because […]
Graduation Advice We All Can Use
Last weekend, I was a proud aunt, beaming and clapping on the quintessential college quad at the Wake Forest University graduation in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. I love it when the strains of the Pomp and Circumstance march begin, and then afterwards when the last name has been read, and the Carillon bells ring out in […]
Why Career Changers Need a Mentor (and How to Find One)
Mentors matter. This is a recent blog post I wrote for author and speaker Mary Foley’s terrific website, which is aimed at inspiring women. Click here to visit Mary’s site. Over the years, I’ve had a few female bosses offer guidance. But they never helped me break through any sort of glass ceiling, get promoted, […]
Meet Your Virtual Mentor
I met John Spence a few weeks ago. He was smart, funny, generous with his advice and encouraging. I didn’t actually meet him with a handshake, but rather a big smile and hello via my MacBook Pro screen one morning. He was at his desk in Gainesville, Florida, and I was in my home office […]
NextAvenue.org: Why Women Need to Be Mentors (or Find Them)
Let’s call it chivalry. Most of the working women I talk to who are about my age (51) say mentors have helped them greatly in their careers. But the mentors were generally men. Over the years, I’ve had a few female bosses offer guidance from time to time. But they never helped me break through […]
