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I've written before about how much I love a good handwritten card or letter. So much so that my husband and I now run a handwritten note business. It's easy to fire off an email or text. But it's less easy to convey pure emotion that way. So I wrote a piece recently for Medium [...]

Guest post by Jessica Marventano So you just got invited out to a work lunch and are excited because you have been dying to try that new restaurant down the street. You cannot wait to try their signature dish! Wait – don’t make a rookie error. Make no mistake, a business lunch is NOT about [...]

Guest Post by Jessica Marventano Most of us in the business world work for someone else – usually an organization. It can be large, like a corporation or a national non-profit. Or it can be small like a boutique law firm, communications firm, or some other service firm. Or it can be something cutting edge [...]

First days are scary. Whether it’s a first day of school when you’re young, a first day at your first job out of school, or the first time you walk into a party where you know no one. Or maybe it’s the first day you post a piece to your brand-new blog when you’re embarking on a new adventure in your ‘ahem’ forties.