If you’re sitting there – fresh out of college or in the middle of a career transition – trying to figure out whether it’s better to get a job or start a business, I can...

The economy is tanking, your 401K is in the toilet and your house is losing value faster than the dollar. With all the volitility in the financial market, what in the world should you be investing...

I have had it up to here with people trying to steal my intellectual property! Over the past couple of years different people have attempted to steal my logo and business name, my website content and...

One of the greatest assets of a business, the products it sells or the services it provides, is its trademark. The trademark of a business is what identifies your business or products and sets them...

Let me guess. You can’t afford it. You’d really love to [start a home business/spend time with your kids/give money to charity/adopt a child from China], you really would, but you just...

With the bombardment of headlines forecasting doom and despair in the economic sector, it’s hard for a freelancer and small business owner to keep her head up and stay positive. But recently I...

I realized this month, during a conversation with one of my closest friends, that I’ve unknowingly surrounded myself with people who compliment me. I’ve been lucky enough to meet these...

"Get to it and do it." It's a statement I heard plenty of growing up. Chores to be finished? "Get to it and do it." Math homework? "Get to it and do it." Whatever the...

While I was considering leaving the practice of law, I sat down and made a list of what I wanted out of my next job. My list consisted of things like flexibility, autonomy, creativity, the ability to...

WOW. That is all I can say. This job and career hunt is one exhausting and outrageously time-consuming venture, pretty much eating up all my creative energy, all my writing energy for anything other...

Maggie and I have finally answered a question that’s haunted us. In developing the proposal for our nonfiction book, Success and Sanity: The Partnership Solution for Entrepreneurial Women,...

This morning, my husband was talking about how much he has enjoyed the fact that I have such a flexible schedule now. Since I left my "Big Law" job a year ago - and even though I

Let’s say you’ve been in a successful business partnership for 5 years with someone who’s been a close friend for 25. You both enjoy this partnership so much that you decide to...

Last year I decided to participate in a mission trip to the Central African Republic to conduct research focused on micro-enterprise development through the Graduate Professional School Ministries...

Last Sunday, I was on the 6 train in Manhattan when I was inspired by a stranger. The train was packed with Sunday shoppers and I was crushed up next to a woman who was 30ish, and probably an...

After spending a few months as a life and career coach, I am becoming a lawyer again. But  I’m doing it differently this time, joining the ranks of young lawyers in Orlando

Ambitious women drive ourselves crazy. I hear these sorts of comments all the time: “I love my career. That said, it demands a ton of hours. At home, my clean clothes and

Women who telecommute, at least part time, tell me, "I have a killer job." The pièce de résistance of their professional setup? "I can work from home when I need to. I...

I’m tired. OH MEH GAW-- it’s been a long one. But I’m still glad I plunged over the cliff of the Unknown. I recently showed my Spring ’08 collection at the big (pain in my arse) seasonal indsutry...

When a local business journal was writing a profile about my company and asked me to describe myself in one word, I replied “driven.”  That’s pretty much been me my whole life.  I was lucky...

To Do in the Next Four Weeks:
1. Finalize edits of manuscripts and proposals for books I will sell to publishers this August and September,...

During my six years of law practice, I faced unrelenting pressure to please every partner, every client, every moment of every day, regardless of the personal toll, and not look like an out of...

As you know from my bio, I am a parallel entreprenuer as well as long-term corporate ladder climber. Why is this? I find that my non-corporate business interests help prevent me from being wholly...

We always hear about men golfing. We know that lots of deals are struck on the golf course. We even know a few women who golf for both pleasure and business. So, why don't more women play golf? I...

There are so many challenges in starting a business (in my case, a solo shop) such as wearing ALL the hats, dealing with the finances, giving up your reliable income source to take a risk, etc. ...

As motherhood and work seem to be a hot topic on the boards, I wanted to offer my own comparison nugget.  Entrepreneurial pursuits seem to be kinder to mothers than the traditional corporate...

I love, live and breathe fashion. I pick season’s colors, watch fashion trends, travel to Paris to source fabrics, and I sketch constantly.  Ah yes, and read fashion magazines and shop whenever...

To Do in the Next Six Weeks:
1. Finish the most challenging women’s health book I’ve written to date. Two weeks.

2. Prepare to market the 10 amazing authors whose books...

My name is Monica Favela George and I have a problem. I LOVE shoes. So much that I have risked my entire financial well being on launching my own shoe line.  I did not work for anyone else in...

My life as a retail entrepreneur plays out like a twisted Mastercard commercial.  I  have paid a price for my vision and the many costs involved include forfeiting a six-figure salary; no...

I have been working in the art and legal fields in New York City for the past twelve years.  Three years ago I culled my favorite parts of each of these fields and launched my fine art...

I am so lucky to have the best of two lives – a professional one and a mommy one.  I am the mother of 2 gorgeous and extremely rambunctious (code for wild!) girls, 2 and 4 years old.  ...