Confessions of a Cyber-Challenged Woman…or (as my mother told me) God Helps Those Who Help Themselves

If the question is:
Where have you been, Nancy?
Then the answer is:
“Cibernating” (as in hibernating in cyberspace).

For all of you who’ve wondered where I disappeared to the past three weeks (yikes!) I want to first thank you for missing me. I missed you too. Next, I want to respectfully request that you reframe from contacting [...]

It Takes The Pedal To Get You To The Medal

(continued from yesterday)
Barb was already in coaching when she came to the realization that her career trajectory needed to change course. She’d been wandering through her organization like a five year old in a puddle, yet didn’t understand why she wasn’t getting anywhere.
I told her, “If you don’t know where you’re going, how will you [...]

Neutral Is A Color, Not A Way Of Life.

“I’m stuck.”
“I can’t seem to get things moving.”
‘I’m in the exact same place I was last year at this time.”
“My business isn’t growing as fast I’d like it to.”
Sound familiar? Was I channeling you? Or someone you know?
I usually get a frantic phone call or an urgent email when an individual has reached the outer [...]

High-Five Yourself™: What You Need to Know to Get From Here to There

They’re smart, they’re passionate, they’re savvy; they’re the women of Microsoft. And for 75 minutes this month, they were my audience.
I’d like to take you on a short journey with me and share what made this event so special to me, and why it’s the subject of all of my blogs this week.
If we roll [...]

Integrity: When You Do What You Say You're Going to Do

There are few days as celebratory as when I adopted both of my children. Yesterday wasn’t in that category but it was a close runner up in the special department. My first book, Impact! What Every Woman Needs to Know to Go From Invisible to Invincible! was born. As in, delivered. To Microsoft: A spectacular [...]

Nancy Blogs on Impact! for CNBC

This past week I, once again, experienced the magic of networking. Just as the realtor’s mantra is location, location, location, the savvy networker’s mantra is relationship, relationship, relationship.
A few weeks back my friend, Russ Edelman, of Corridor Consulting, Inc., and I were brainstorming ideas for our respective businesses.He told me about blogging for CNBC and [...]

Entrepreneurs Can Change the World

It’s been almost seventeen years since I went into business for myself. At the time, one of the local banks had launched an ad campaign apparently geared to attract small business owners. Join me, for a moment, as I try to paint as accurate a picture of this ad as I possibly can.
The backdrop of [...]

It’s not always what you know, it’s not always who you know……..It’s always who you are.

A few weeks ago I went to a networking event specifically created to support people currently out of work. Some three to four hundred men and women gathered over drinks and appetizers at a local restaurant; included in the mix were employers and recruiters.
The loud hum in the room was punctuated by bursts of laughter, [...]

Managing Your Miracles

At some point in our lives someone has probably told us, “You are what you eat.” This is a not-so-distant cousin of the precautionary, “You may one day eat those words.” Which is to say that we’d best watch what we’re saying, (and how we say it) lest one day we have to metabolize some [...]

THE CONTRACT: When to Bill it? When to Bite it?

Recently I had, shall we say, a ‘difference of opinion’ with my satellite television company (the one I won’t mention by name because my attorney warned me not to). Although I had a legitimate reason for canceling my service, they were unwilling to adjust or waive the $300 cancellation fee.
Which brings me to a rant—Cable [...]

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