I discovered a great new blog, TwentySet, this week.   It’s about personal and professional growth for Millennials, and is written by Monica O’Brien, who has been blogging since the ancient year of 1998.  I especially liked Monica’s post about how twenty-somethings can “recession proof” their lives.  I love that the Millennials ...

Just a heads up that a new episode of the 30/20 Vision Radio Show will air live tomorrow at BlogTalkRadio at 3PM ET.  As I reminder, I host this monthly radio show with my fellow authors Christine Hassler (20-Something, 20-Everything) and Lindsey Pollak (Getting from College to Career), and our goal is to provide ''big sister'' advice to men ...

Okay, I confess.  I’ve been hooked on Dancing with the Stars.  I started watching this season because over the summer, while on a Southwest Airlines flight from San Francisco to Chicago, I met one of the professional contestants, Mark Ballas.    It was especially interesting that I met Mark, because he and his celebrity ...

Vickie Hann, HR Director at the Hilton Arlington near my old stomping grounds of Washington D.C., contacted me to share the great work her hotel is doing around the Earth Charter, an international people’s treaty for building a just, sustainable and peaceful global society in the 21st century.   At the Hilton Arlington, an Earth Charter ...

Thanks to Steven Rothberg at CollegeRecruiter.com for sharing news of the innovative, first-ever Deloitte & Touche Film Festival. The festival invited employees in the accounting and consulting firm’s US operations to make short videos that answered the question ''What's your Deloitte?''. Teams comprised of one to seven people submitted films ...

[ImageAttachment]   This past weekend was a city-wide extravaganza in Chicago, as the beloved Bears had not played in a Superbowl since 1986.  On Friday, on my way to my downtown office, I noticed that the Blue Line El train my nearly empty – the first evidence that people had already started celebrating.  That afternoon, in ...