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43 Ways To Live Forever, Almost

December 20, 2019 | By Jodi Wellman | Filed under Everything Else

As we look forward to a new year, this might provide you some more practical inspiration for those pesky resolutions.

Job Spotlight: Clinical Research Coordinator

Introducing, Sina Malekian! Job Title: Clinical Research Coordinator II Industry: Healthcare + Research Company Size: 1200 physicians and 4000 employees; in my division, we have 60 people Years of Experience: 2 City: Chicago

Job Spotlight: Associate Creative Director + Brand Strategist

Introducing, Josh Ferguson! Job Title: Associate Creative Director + Brand Strategist Industry: Marketing + Advertising Company Size: 10 – 25 Years of Experience: 8 years City: Chicago

Job Spotlight: Real Estate Broker

As I talk to more and more of our clients right before they start their career coaching journey, they tell me how hard it is to change jobs or industries because they don’t know what else is out there. They know ...

Why You Need a Personal Board of Directors

How to ruthlessly edit the people in your life.

Find Success with a Career Break

We often hear about the difficulties that women (and men) face after taking a break from the workforce, usually to take care of kids or family. Many women worry about falling out of touch and that companies won’t want to ...

Do You Know If It’s the Right Job Offer for You?

This is the job searcher’s dream, isn’t it? Multiple amazing job offers that are so good you don’t know which is the right one. Or maybe it’s not that they’re all amazing, but that they’re all different: one has great ...

How Do You Know When to Move on from Your Job?

This is one of the most common questions we get when we work with people at all stages of their career, but it can be particularly hard to decide early in your career. It’s rare that we find ourselves staying ...

Career vs. Job: Which Is Right for You?

There’s a stereotype when it comes to a successful career that you need to be continually moving up the ladder (whether your environment is corporate or not). The prototype for a well-worked “career” is that you continue to get promoted ...

An Interview with the Honorable Young Kim

Honorable Young B. Kim is a United States Magistrate Judge (which means that he is a “federal trial court judge”) who, among other things, graduated from Loyola University School of Law in Chicago, worked as an Assistant Public Defender, clerked ...

How to Improve Your Communication Skills

Getting better at something you do every day.

How Do I Break in Socially at My New Company?

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How Focus Helped Me Find Freedom

I remember deciding what I wanted to do, at sixteen or maybe seventeen, in the throes of High School Drama. As a teenager, and later a BFA student, life as an actor was about stamina. How many hours in a ...

The Problem of Having Too Many Interests

One of the concerns that we hear from a lot of young people coming out of college is that they don’t know what to do after graduating because they have so many interests. This can also worry the parent of ...

Event Recap: The Power of Positivity

Last Wednesday evening at 1871 in the Merchandise Mart a group of women gathered to begin their year with a masterclass in positivity. About 40 people were in attendance, and the panelists were Dr. Anne Brennan Malec, Dr. Gertrude Lyons, ...

Stay at Home Parents and the Anxiety of Returning to Work

Why does returning to work feel so hard for those parents who decided to stay at home with their kids?

Why CEO’s Are Afraid to Ask for Help

If you’re a CEO, you’re probably known for a lot of things– decisiveness, a compelling vision for the future, tenacity, great yacht-buying skills– yet you’ve likely never been noted for your vulnerability. Being vulnerable means you’ve done something wrong or ...