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2013

Holding on to the “Old” Year on New Year’s

Posted on December 28, 2013, in Executive. Mom. Blog., with 0 Comments

20131228-221850.jpgAs a self-branded cautious optimist, I always loved the promise that seemed to beckon with each turning of a new year… and it always made me a little nervous. In our Horatio Alger-esque way, we treat every New Year’s like.

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Fearlessness, for the Rest of Us

Posted on July 22, 2013, in Executive. Mom. Blog., with 0 Comments

Two years ago this weekend my friend Jennifer Goodman Linn finally succumbed to the sarcoma that robbed her of so much… and yet also became the basis for her vast and enduring legacy as the founder with her husband David.

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Bat Mitzvah Planning: “The Path to Wow”

Posted on July 19, 2013, in Executive Mom Plans a Bat Mitzvah, Uncategorized, with 0 Comments

  I noted it was a gamble to engage my corporate conference producer to help with Hannah’s Bat Mitzvah.  Several few meetings back, it appeared I had in fact rolled the dice poorly in this regard.   One evening we.

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My Central Perk (Or Interrupting this Working Mom Life for One Brief Moment with Friends)

Posted on July 11, 2013, in Executive. Mom. Blog., with 0 Comments

As someone who has always fed on popular culture it’s perhaps not surprising that I wound up with a career in marketing; I’m my own best consumer of the images we media create, even/especially as I should have a critic’s.

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Bat Mitzvah Venues: “I’m Light”

Posted on July 11, 2013, in Executive Mom Plans a Bat Mitzvah, Uncategorized, with 0 Comments

  While it was not practical to do too many venue visits, based on a combination of 1) budget, and 2) time, in conversations with our planners (and a lot of research on my part, as well as theirs), we.

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Bat Mitzvah Venues: Perfect, but…

Posted on June 5, 2013, in Executive Mom Plans a Bat Mitzvah, with 0 Comments

Off the little list of venue possibilities I had generated, I held high hopes for one in particular, a venue right in our Upper West Side neighborhood of which I had never been aware until not one, but both our.

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Our First Venue Visit

Posted on June 5, 2013, in Executive Mom Plans a Bat Mitzvah, with 0 Comments

Part of my rationale for going a slightly unconventional route in the professional planning assistance department is that I knew I wouldn’t be able to resist throwing my energies into this as a “Project.” In fact, after winding down working.

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Bat Mitzvah Planning: Creating an Option C

Posted on June 5, 2013, in Executive Mom Plans a Bat Mitzvah, with 0 Comments

  Being successful at being an Executive Mom often hinges on knowing how to tap your network to get things done, resourcefully.   In planning an event on the scale of a Bat Mitzvah, most parents with demanding careers (or other.

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Weighing in on that “other Digital Maris(s)a’s” Big Decision

Posted on June 5, 2013, in Executive. Mom. Blog., with 0 Comments

  Among its many profound effects that I consider often in my professional as well as personal life, social media has become a giant lighting rod for rushes to judgement.  And so when Marissa Mayer, the not-even-40, new-mother+CEO of Yahoo!.

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My Bat Mitzvah Inspiration Board on Pinterest

Posted on April 21, 2013, in Executive Mom Plans a Bat Mitzvah, Uncategorized, with 0 Comments

If you are also a Pinterest fan, click on the image and you can follow my inspiration board there…    

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