Share This week we conducted the third Girls Fight Back University to train new speaker apprentices. These trainings are intense, giving future speakers the tools to fight and the ability to communicate this life-saving information from the stage. It’s a terrifying blend of identifying our own fears of what we are capable of, and confronting [...]
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Share This week I made an impromptu trip to Los Angeles for a funeral. The wife of my mentor, Bob Martin, unexpectedly passed away in her sleep. Without a second thought, I flew to California to support him and attend the memorial service. Bob’s wife was a lovely woman named Babette Marie Martin. She raised [...]
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Share While a new year encourages serious self-critique and making lists of things to change, I just wanted to provide a friendly reminder that you are already perfect. Oprah once said, “Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right.” She implies we’ve been getting it wrong, and granted, some [...]
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Share Change absolutely fascinates me, and people, organizations and companies who seem to get it right have a few things in common. They have effective, simple systems in place. They know who they are, and who they are not. Armed with this well-oiled machine and unshakable confidence, successful folks develop laser beam focus on what [...]
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Share Each June for the past decade, the entire month has been an absolute emotional train wreck for me. My friend Shannon, who inspired GFB back in 2001 after a brave fight against a serial killer, was murdered on June 12th. Her birthday is June 21st, a glorious reminder she was born – but also [...]
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Share Recently I’ve noticed people who consider themselves ‘personalities’ don’t follow back on Twitter. For some reason, this really irks me – mostly because it just feels high and mighty. It’s also not the intention of Twitter in the first place. Twitter is a conversation, not a platform. While the mega celebs can get away [...]
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Share Kenny Rogers once sang, “You gotta know when to hold ‘em, know when to fold ‘em, know when to walk away, know when to run…” Kenny boy, you are so wise! Yet walking away from people, from relationships, from jobs – well, there’s a lot of fear in these choices. What many people don’t [...]
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Share In September 2001, I was working as a temp at in the publicity department at Miramax Films in New York City. It was a short-term gig to make some cash, while launching Girls Fight Back on the side. At the time I was living in Hoboken, NJ (located just across the Hudson River) and [...]
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Share Hey, it’s Friday – and you know what that means…somebody just got fired! It always seems to happen at the end of the week. Strategically planned for a full weekend of sobbing while binge drinking, perhaps? A good friend of mine just got canned for job performance reasons. Lucky for him, he’s naturally entrepreneurial [...]
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Share We hear about people dying everyday in our 24-hour news culture, and there’s always that moment of shock – some longer than others. Regardless how tortured the person was or how anticipated their demise, the news serves as a reminder of our our own mortality. I often jokingly say my nickname is “Princess of [...]
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Share About six years ago I had a friend who was always talking about “following her bliss” and making major life decisions based on subtle messages she noticed. Even though she was a good 10 years older than me, I thought she was naive to be void of a plan, and waiting for some whimsical [...]
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Share I’d like to write this quick thank-you note to my community of family, friends, fans and colleagues who sent me and the McNamara family well-wishes this past weekend. As you may know, Sunday marked the 10-year anniversary of the murder of Shannon McNamara, who is my angel, my boss and my inspiration for Girls [...]
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