I'm a bit frazzled and discombobulated lately. There's so much going on around me and in my brain that I'm having trouble latching onto the now and being HERE. Instead, I'm bouncing around from one...

It has been said that "the surest way to keep a man in prison is not to let him know he's there." And the surest way to keep a woman from embracing her pure career ambition is to make her...

Damsels, I am writing to tell you that last night I met the proto Damsel in Success. The circumstances of how this meeting came about are unimportant; just suffice it to say that I found...

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...

Swimming lesson #2 - Your personal best is the only thing that counts. This is not for the softies – although my questions are somewhat soft.

Is winning the only goal even...

This is my horoscope for the month of February 2008 – the month that I resigned from my job as a national sales and marketing manager to write full-time – I thought it would be worth...

Are you happy in your current position? Or are you expecting to climb the ladder or rise in your career to a higher position? If you’re happy where you are, if you’ve reached the pinnacle...

Despite the fact that I was in my mid-twenties by the time I started writing regularly, and despite the fact that I was almost thirty by the time I had my first official writing job, I think...

A reader sent me this question: "I have a cherished baby and a husband who is willing to support me. Women in my new mothers group pressure me to abandon my established small business any...

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...

With baby boomers approaching retirement, I have come across many articles offering advice on what to do to prepare for the next generation leaders. The advice focuses on ways to make the field...

"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...

I think a lot about the future. About how I want to make my mark on this world, do something of significance, and find that perfect intersection of talent, passion, and opportunity. And I’m not...

Not only did I learn things at Vogue, but I picked up a few things as a young litigator at a big NYC law firm as well. It was not nearly as "sexy" of...

In the past year I have had the privilege of attending a variety of conferences and sitting in on some pretty important meetings ranging from nonprofit fundraising and marketing to curriculum...

I make my living teaching women how to unapologetically own their ambition in a society that has a double standard. It’s our prevailing cultural paradigm: ambitious men are go-getters, but

As women, how can we deal with male co-workers who are socially inept and make inappropriate comments, but aren’t harassing us, per se?

One great tactic is humor.

I thought something would happen the last week of March, but what was supposed to happen didn’t. See, I was supposed to figure out who the man of my dreams was this past week. Stop laughing....

We women always try and look on the bright side. Case in point: a friend who was going through a painful divorce and custody battle said to me, “Well, at least I’ll lose a few...

While married, what did Jennifer Aniston and Brad Pitt have in common with 1/3 of American couples?  Before I answer that, let me share a question posted by a DamselsInSuccess reader: 

On the hit MTV series The Hills, Lauren (LC) is offered a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to go to Paris by her boss at Teen Vogue. Instead of jumping at it, like any sane person trying to pursue a...

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...

Riffing off of the 2005 New York Times article that claimed, after interviewing a handful of students...

At the risk of sounding completely self-absorbed and superficial and, well…bitchy, I have to confess something that has weighed heavily on my mind since probably the first time I turned in a...

After a breezy Saturday spent walking around town, hitting up the gym, and then celebrating the Red Sox win at a Halloween party this past weekend, I woke up Sunday morning feeling guilty. Sitting...

In today’s New York Times, Lisa Belkin, the Life’s Work columnist, tackles the bevy of conflicting data points women get about how to comport themselves at the office in a column called...

Have you ever noticed that women are frequently stereotyped as being more talkative of than men? Maybe it’s just my first-born traits coming out, but being talkative is something that holds...

This post is an opening argument to the question, “Do women need men and/or children in order to be fulfilled?” The opposing viewpoint, from www.thestateof.com, can be read

That’s the thesis of a piece called The New Girl Order by Kay S. Hymowitz in The City Journal. According to Hymowitz and data on the subject, the single young female (SYF) is bar-hopping,...

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

I was an editorial assistant at Vogue in 1995-96. It was not a job I ever imagined I would have but one which I fell into and have never forgotten. This post is not a sequel to The Devil Wears Prada,...

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 started a new job on Wednesday. At 23 years old, I am now the Executive Director of a young professional organization whose mission is to attract and retain young talent and leadership

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...

I continue to read that women in business hesitate to ask for what they want, and therefore, they don’t always get what they want. Ladies, please understand it is okay, and even expected, that you...

During my research for my book, amBITCHous, I e-mailed queries to thousands of high-achieving women and always received a flood of responses that generated a...

I am, what some may call, a habitual rebel by temperament. According to my mother, from the moment I could make up my own mind and say ‘no’ (that would be me from age 2 onwards), I had always...

I know a lot of awesome Gen X and Gen Y women. In fact, the city of Madison, WI ranks in the top ten of both female creative class, and female super-creative class percentages in the nation...

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...

It's hard to tell your story when you are so used to telling others' for a living.  I ask people to put their lives and tales in front of the world every day.  Sometimes I have to convince...

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...

I don't want to tell you this, but I have to: I got fired from my very first job out of college. I still feel the twinges of shame and inadequacy, the fear that at the ripe old age of twenty-two my...

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...

Generally, I’m a free spirit when it comes to how I approach life but when it comes to work, I’ve always done what I should do opposed to what I want to do…until now.  The path has been a bit...

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...