I have a lot of gratitude for spending nearly a decade working inside the entertainment industry. From intern to senior vice president, I saw it all. From angry audience emails to backstabbing co-workers to Matt Damon in the waiting room, the industry has a knack for attracting drama – it’s the business after all. That’s…
Need A New Career? 5 Tips For Breaking Into A Different Industry
Meet A Mentor: Marjorie
Nearly 40% of our users work in technology. So I jumped at the chance to persuade Marjorie to join our mentor network. She is a former senior executive at Verizon where she developed, built, and operated new products and technologies with high performing teams. Today she serves on non-profit boards, advises startups, and inspires me…
Top 10 Questions To Ask A Mentor
Edittress is about editing stress. When you need help and don’t quite know how to ask, take a spin through our favorite questions below. Talk to somebody who’s been there today… 10. Someone told me what somebody else said about me. It wasn’t nice. Now what? 9. I can’t get a word in without…
Inspired By: Audrey Hepburn
Nothing is impossible. The word itself says ‘I’m possible!’ People, even more than things, have to be restored, renewed, revived, reclaimed, and redeemed; never throw out anyone. Not to live for the day, that would be materialistic — but to treasure the day. I realize that most of us live on the skin, on the…
How To Avoid Overpromising At Work
There can be a big gap between who we are and who we think we are. I believe this is the root of overpromising. It’s incredibly stressful on two fronts: 1. From making the promise thinking that it’s possible and 2. Realizing you can’t and disappointing people. Now, I hear you already, we all know…
Top 10 Hipster Words That Your Baby Boomer Co-worker Doesn’t Understand
Part of the thesis for online mentorship is encouraging more inter-generational conversations. While high-minded, we acknowledge that there could be many reasons why your Baby Boomer co-worker just doesn’t want to talk. Case in point: language barriers. So we bounced some millennial-speak off people of a certain age this week. This is what we heard……
Inspired By: Molly Ivins
The first rule of holes: when you’re in one, stop digging. The thing is this: You got to have fun while you’re fightin’ for freedom, ’cause you don’t always win. It is possible to read the history of this country as one long struggle to extend the liberties established in our Constitution to everyone in…
Stress Management Techniques For Building Resilience
Nobody likes to be judged, but we do it all the time. One of my business school classmates was and still stands tall at 5 feet. He carries around a picture in his wallet of him and his wife who is 4’10”. I will never forget when he showed it to me with a grin…
Your Voice Is More Exciting Than The Voice
The League of Women Voters is a non-partisan civic organization founded in 1920 in order to support women suffrage rights. “The League began as a ‘mighty political experiment’ designed to help 20 million women carry out their new responsibilities as voters. It encouraged them to use their new power to participate in shaping public policy.…