On Writing Bottlenecks…and an Apology

Before we jump in — I’m Monster.com’s featured career expert for tonight’s #MWChat on Twitter from 6-7ET. The topic is Bridging the Skills Gap in Today’s Economy. Join us and thousands (!!) of others for tonight’s chat if you can.  Perfectionism can be a crippling quality for a blogger. I have so much to share [...]

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Video: The Number One Tip for SXSW Newbies

Happy Monday from the road! I’m driving back to NYC from Pittsburgh today after spending the weekend at TEDxCMU, the same conference I spoke at last year (on Career in the Age of the App). I can’t believe how much has changed in a year. When I gave that speech I was still working at Google, living [...]

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Guest Post: Get Unstuck and Unlock Your Potential by Ishita Gupta

If you don’t know Ishita Gupta of Fear.less Magazine, you must. She’s a warm, sharp, intuitive, wise, well-traveled soul who I had the great pleasure of finally catching up with over coffee last week at an adorable place called The Bean in NYC. She used to work with Seth Godin and The Domino Project as [...]

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Video: Celebrate What You Want to See More Of

You all know how much I love when the LAC community can help people out with their big goals. The other day Al Smith, a long-time reader and all-around awesome guy, reached out to me about HIS big scary goal — a book on career advancement, the origins of which started after he was passed [...]

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On Freedom: a Counterintuitive Way to Fly

There must be something in the air…I was asked to post on the topic of Freedom for two blog round-ups today — very fitting given a recent dream of mine (more below). It’s fun to get such a meaty topic to pontificate on! Today’s post is part of Mike Routen’s Personal Freedom Round Robin and Molly [...]

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Everybody Starts Somewhere: My spontaneous speech in which I drop an f-bomb

There’s an important announcement that I left out of my last post. Beyond being unplugged, one of the biggest highlights of my recent Mexico trip was finishing my yoga certification!!! I taught my 25th class in a Mayan cave for a group of 10 incredible entrepreneurs . . . Geek Yoga at it’s absolute finest. [...]

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