About Me
Why work really hard for someone else? Why not do your own thing?
I am an Attorney turned Entrepreneur.
This is a blog about my forthcoming book, How I changed Careers...a resource, sanctuary and knowledge base for the working wounded who want to run their own show and need a little inspiration.
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Monthly Archives: August 2009
From Journalist to Novelist
Reprinted from NYTIMES.com By Linda Villarosa Linda Villarosa (Photo: Luciana Pampalone) Subtle career shifts can be as daunting as dramatic reinventions. And today we have a guest post by Linda Villarosa, focusing on one of those subtle shifts. Ms. Villarosa, … Continue reading
Posted in Career Change
Tagged Career Change, linda villarose, passingfor black, shifting careers
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Free Advice
Need career or business advice? This is a forum that I want to do from time to time to answer questions you might have? What do you want to know? If I can help, I’ll try. (no legal advice though, … Continue reading
My Corporate and Spa Consulting Business
A year or so ago business owner from Japan asked for my help in launching their platinum laced face cream and skin care line to the high end market. This involved everything from prodcut formulation to marketing materials and channels of distribution. Continue reading
Posted in Advice, Career Change, Entrepreneurship
Tagged Advice, Career Change, consulting, Dare to Dream
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Edward Kennedy dies at 77
Steven Senne AP Photo – FILE – In this May 28, 2003 file photo, U.S. Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, D-Mass., left, and former President Bill Clinton laugh together as Kennedy introduces Clinton at the John F. Kennedy Library in Boston. … Continue reading
Posted in Career Change, In the NEWs
Tagged Chapaquitic, in memorium, In the NEWs, teddy kennedy
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A Map For Saturday
I began traveling internationally as a teenager. Travel has been one of the most fascinating and life shaping parts of my life. It is a priority to me. Yeah, I travel for work too, but my spirit soars when I … Continue reading
Haters, Enemies and Schadenfreude, Part III
I was the first African American company on the cover of the LA Times Business section. This was in June of 2008. I ran into a friend and pulled the paper out to show them. I told the it was the cover. Their dad, walked into our conversation, cut me off “No its not.” And playing off the major press like it was no big deal. He was a civil servant who I douwbt ever received any positive press, if at all, and likely did not understand what it meant to an entrepreneur to gain such coverage.
….I would have more respect if they said, “here’s the the guy who I think is crazy for having the balls to do what I really wish I could but I’m too much of a weak bitch to try.” Oh yeah, Angelina Jolie uses his lip balm.”
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Career Snobbery?
more about “Career Snobbery?“, posted with vodpod This is from the TED 2009 Series. I download TED videos and watch them when I travel. They are inspirational, intelligent with a bit of whmsy. Alain de Botton hits on so many … Continue reading
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How To Change Careers This Year
by Tag and Catherine Goulet, FabJob.com If you are dreaming of a new career, but worried that the current economy could make your dream an impossible one, the good news is that a career change is possible this year. Here … Continue reading
Posted in Advice, Career Change
Tagged Career Change, Dare to Dream, entrepreneur, fabjob.com, Inspiration
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If Coco Chanel Can Make It, So Can You
Those interlocking C’s of CoCo Chanel represent money, style and glamour. True haute couture. * Gabrielle Bonheur “Coco” Chanel would have been 126 years old today. She was born August 19, 1883 in Saumur France. She was best known for … Continue reading
Posted in Career Change, Just DO It!, Travertinespa.com
Tagged Career Change, Chanel, CoCo, Dare to Dream, entrepreneur, Inspiration, Polo, Ralph Lauren
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Haters, Enemies and Schadenfreude, Part II
Often times they ask me questions assuming my business is terrible and I (and they would be justified that I am crazy) if I made a mistake in leaving what appeared to them as prestige. They look at me as if I have just received a cancer diagnosis and in a hushed tone ask “How is business, everything ok?”
I take my friend Devin’s advice and I say, “business is incredible.” As he says, it could be incredibly good or incredibly bad. What difference does it make it they know. Continue reading
Posted in Career Change, Dare to Dream, Entrepreneurship
Tagged Career Change, hateration
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