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What would you do if you weren’t afraid?

This question came from the commencement address given by Sheryl Sandberg, the Chief Operating Officer of Facebook to the 2011 Barnard graduating class.  I think it's a great question!! It is one you can ask yourself the next time you find yourself stepping back from a project, idea, concept, person, promotion, opportunity etc which you know in your heart you care deeply about.  You can find her entire address at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AdvXCKFNqTY   I have listened to a number of commencement addresses this year for the first time. Michelle Savoy, one of the Babes who responds to your questions periodically via the  "ask a babe" feature encouraged me to listen to them. She tells me she does it every year and finds great inspiration ...

Mary Susanne. Milestones, Obstacles and Roadblocks

I asked Mary Susanne what major obstacles, difficulties and roadblocks she had faced over the course of her career and what she learned from them and where she turned for support when she faced them.   Mary Susanne said without a moment’s hesitation: “Male bank managers.” I asked her what she did when she faced one and she said: “Well in the particular situation I am thinking about, I wasn’t getting anywhere.  Until this time, I had always had women bank managers and this man wasn’t…he was not someone that was helpful.  I think I wanted a line of credit or something absolutely ridiculous. I went to the person who had backed me and told him what had happened and I was ...