by Valerie Gordon | Jul 21, 2020 | Advice, Career, Front and Center, Interviews with the Experts
Say you buy a bunch of avocados. You bring them home so you can make guacamole. But they’re too hard to cut into. Not yet ripe. And you have to wait. You leave them for a bit. Maybe you put them in a paper bag to hasten the process (who does this and does it actually...
by Valerie | Mar 11, 2019 | Advice, Career, Interviews with the Experts
It’s 5pm and Anne Doepner is leaving work to get home to her two children, ages 7 and 5. She makes no excuses for this. “I firmly believe that if we don’t have something bucking against the culture, you’ll never get women into these roles,” she says....
by Valerie | Feb 25, 2019 | Creativity, Interviews with the Experts
Libby Wamser has always had a way with words. It was Christmastime when she was 12 or 13 that she discovered the impact her words could have. As one of 9 children, Libby always found the day chaotic with everyone opening presents at one time. She had given her father,...
by Valerie | Jan 5, 2019 | Advice, Interviews with the Experts
I’m lying on a yoga mat, attempting to extend my right knee across my left leg while simultaneously keeping my right shoulder planted on the floor. Breathing through this twist will apparently relieve stress, improve circulation and free my mind of unwanted...
by Valerie | Mar 26, 2018 | Advice, Interviews with the Experts
I wake up at 2:30 a.m. with a thought. It’s not about all I have to do when my alarm goes off just three hours later (though I do think about that often)… It’s not about whether I left the stove on or the garage door open (though I sometimes obsess...
by Valerie | Oct 6, 2017 | Interviews with the Experts
For years Gretchen Carlson announced headlines on television, discussing the biggest stories of the day, before she found her own story in the headlines. Since coming forward to fight the sexual harassment she said she endured at work, Gretchen brought to light the...
