If you follow me on social media — And if you don’t, what are you waiting for? — In my Instagram stories right now I’m demonstrating how I taught my doberman to give gentle hugs — then you know that on Saturday I was on Good Morning America. It was my fifth time, but only the second mug I … Read more
Last week, on a flight back from Los Angeles, I had a radical a-ha moment that has the potential of opening up an entire swatch of speaking clients. It was one of those head-smack-obvious-in-hindsight moments after which we feel equally proud (to have had) as annoyed (that it too so long to realize). As an … Read more
I have a favorite Christmas cookie. Imagine that you are a nice Jewish Girl from Miami going home for your very first Christmas at the childhood home of a nice Catholic Boy from Cincinnati. Greeting you is your future mother-in-law, and she’s carrying the most delicious cookies you’ve ever tasted: the thumbprint cookies. They are … Read more
Who’s in your framily? I found out a few weeks ago that some guy I know in my small corner of the world was talking shit about me. Over the weekend I learned that someone else from my small corner of the world has held a years long grudge against me. Just yesterday someone sent … Read more
Have you ever need to find the courage to step so far outside of your comfort zone that you found a different version of yourself? That happened to me this past weekend. I got on stage in front of 5,000 people, my biggest audience of my career, and the crowd was wild. The DJ was … Read more
Asking for advice… It seemed like a good idea at the time, right? But are you getting too much advice? You had a problem, an issue, a confusion, and you said, “You know what? I’ll get some advice. I bet Jane can help.” And so you asked Jane. But while you were playing phone tag … Read more
The year was 1994, and I was 23 years old and worth my weight in anxiety and 80s power suits inherited from my mother (the suits, not the anxiety). I was working in the White House after having Wizard of Oz’ed my way into the campaign, the transition team, and eventually a staffing role helping … Read more
When the millenium turned from 1999 to 2000, my husband and I were at a party in Greenwich, Connecticut. Don’t get it twisted. We weren’t “of” Greenwich. We were just “in” Greenwich. To be honest, It was probably the fanciest party we’d ever attended. It was thrown by peers who were friends of friends. These … Read more
At the end of 2016, a young man I know asked me to give him some career advice. I asked him the usual questions about what made him happy, and what he wanted to do, how much he wanted to earn, and the type of job that would give him these things. His answers were … Read more
I’ve been thinking a lot this week about why we do hard things, why I do hard things, and how you can do hard things, too. Over this past week so many of you have told me things like: “You are so much stronger than me.””I could never do that.””You must be superhuman.” But, I’m … Read more