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20 Jun Short-term mentors are underrated

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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...

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05 Jun Female Founder Office Hours: Making the Most of an Awesome Opportunity

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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...

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20 Feb What Role Models do our Students Need?

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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...

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12 Jan Five reasons why we should let the kids work

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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...

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19 Oct Why work experience in college is more important than your GPA

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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...

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11 Sep Why adults need to have real career conversations with young people

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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...

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