by Valerie Gordon | Nov 12, 2020 | Advice, Commander-In-She, Next Chapter
You didn’t see it coming. Or maybe you did, even though you were hiding under your desk, hoping it would pass by like a tornado that lands one town over, leaving you shaken but unscathed. Suddenly you’re out. Laid off. Sacked. Unemployed. Now what?...
by Valerie Gordon | Oct 5, 2020 | Commander-In-She, Next Chapter
A year out of work can create uncertainty and anxiety. That’s the situation Brette Sadler found herself in. It was the fall of 2018 when Sadler, then the VP of Global Partnership Activation at UFC, stepped away from her position in order to build a new, next...
by Valerie Gordon | Aug 2, 2020 | Next Chapter
In a storied career that’s spanned several decades, Elisa Padilla says she’s currently at “the beginning.” New beginnings Since starting her marketing career in 1992, Padilla has led event operations, grassroots community efforts, and marketing and branding strategies...
by Valerie Gordon | Jul 21, 2020 | Advice, Career, 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 | Jun 26, 2020 | Career, Next Chapter, Storytelling
What do you mean, “What’s my story?” “I don’t really have a story,” you think. Or… “My story hasn’t really started yet…” Or… “It’s not a very interesting story…” But of...
