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Dish!

The subtitle of Dish which was written by Barbara Moses is Midlife Women Tell the Truth about Work, Relationships and the Rest of Life.   Moses says the book is populated by many voices. Over the years immediately prior to her writing the book, she received close to a thousand stories from women, including those who responded to an email survey she did, in connection with an article she wrote about why women should fight to express their authentic selves at work. She married these thousand voices to those of thirty women, in their late-thirties to mid-fifties, whom she calls life mentors, insightful, thoughtful, interesting women who she personally selected to be part of the group. And she changed all of their ...

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 ...