Last week, I received an email regarding mentors: “I struggle with keeping in touch with ‘mentors.’ We have great conversations, and I get a lot of insight, and we talk for a few months, sometimes a year or so, but then it drifts away. And I...
A lot changed for me this year. I went from being a solo founder leading an all-women team, to being a co-founder and CEO to two men. I went from bootstrapping a business to finding myself in back to back meetings with VCs and angels, raising for...
I spend most of my time working with students, so I was excited to spend the first half of last week at a conference with only adults. Within eight hours however, I felt drained. Everyone shares their frustration with kids being disrespectful, inconsiderate, and insensitive. I work...
We want the best for our kids. We want them to do well in school so we help them with their homework—even if that means getting stuck doing a lot of it ourselves. We want them to be well-rounded so we load up the minivan and...
I gave a presentation on work experience in college two weeks ago to a group of 80 college juniors. Most companies recruit juniors in their Fall semester for summer internship programs so we were discussing everyone’s favorite topic: internships. Many were nervous about their upcoming...
Every two weeks, I meet 50 or so high school students that have signed themselves up for an intensive career development conference….on a weekend. These are some of the most motivated students I’ve met, and I love their desire to step outside of their academic...