by Valerie Gordon | Nov 12, 2020 | Advice, Commander-In-She, Front and Center, 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 | 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 | Sep 9, 2019 | Advice, Goals, Humor, Productivity
Just the other day I was in the yard picking up dog poop. Also known as: any other day. Quick fact: 4 years ago we rescued a black Lab mix. I must love her a lot to let her use my backyard as a toilet. So, I’m in the yard, picking up the dog poop, having that...
by Valerie | Aug 20, 2019 | Advice, Career
“Lily” hadn’t seen it coming. But she worked her way smack into it. Roadblock. Career-halting, self-confidence wavering, extremely frustrating roadblock. In Lily’s case, the roadblock had a name: “Ben,” a boss once enthusiastic...
by Valerie | Jul 1, 2019 | Goals, Productivity
“I don’t wanna…” The voice sounds like a petulant, whiny four year-old. And there’s no one here but me. It’s my inner four year old who complains loudly, annoyingly, through anything she doesn’t really wanna do. She...
