Career
Miscellaneous things in your life
I am a huge believer in the saying “do what you love and the money will come." Being a creative person, sitting behind a desk all day was just not for me. I did try out the corporate world for a few years but always knew that it never felt right. I have been doing graphic design for about 12 years now on my own and I can now say that there is nothing about my work that I don’t enjoy. As a hobby, I started baking for friends and found that this would also be my calling. I always put my own spin on recipes and eventually started to get a feel on formulating ingredients for just the right texture and taste. I tried out cupcakes for a while with rave reviews, but quickly became bored with seeing them EVERYWHERE. This is when the "cake bite" was born! I then became addicted, and had to give away the cake bites I would make to avoid eating it all!
I knew that I was on to something when my friends and family would start to request them on a regular basis. One friend in particular said to me, “You should sell these. ...
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I've heard a lot of presentations over the years, although not many have struck me as so relevant as Maribeth Kuzmeski's "The Connectors" presentation at the Oct. 12 PWCC luncheon.
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Yesterday I attended a book signing for Mika Brzezinski’s latest opus - “Knowing Your Own Value.” The book is primarily about her struggles at MSNBC to get paid what she’s worth despite being a woman. As most of you no doubt already know, Mika is the co-host with former Florida Congressman Joe Scarborough of a TV news show called “Morning Joe.” What you may not realize is the Joe has been Mika’s strongest advocate and mentor throughout their partnership. All that is well and good. And I along with all of the other attendees of the luncheon thoroughly enjoyed watching the two of them work together. But during the course of their presentation, Joe Scarborough made a comment that was rather unsettling. He said that while men will mentor other men, women don’t seem to do the same for their female colleagues. What’s more, Mika seemed to agree with him.
The implication was that women by their very nature not only undermine their own success (one of the main themes of Mika’s book) but feel no sense of obligat ...
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