How to Make Friends with Career Columnists and Influence Mainstream News Organizations

Welcome to Thrilling Heroics: a personal and career development site for college students and young professionals! If you enjoy the site, I encourage you to leave your comments and consider subscribing to future articles. Optimize your Life, Rock your Career, and Make the World your Playground!For readers in the States, the 4th of July is [...]

California 100 Leadership Summit at UC Davis Next Week

For any readers in the greater Sacramento area, there is a great business networking opportunity on Tuesday, June 17th at the Mondavi Center at UC Davis: The New California 100. Billed as the Central Valley’s first leadership summit, the event will honor the top 100 companies in Northern California that generate more than $50 billion [...]

College Grad Special: The Top 10 Best Commencement Speeches

Happy Memorial Day, dear readers. Today is an important U.S. holiday when we offer remembrance for all the women and men who have lost their lives in military service to our nation. It is also a time for family gatherings and BBQs that for many families coincides with their children’s’ next rite of passage as [...]

Looking for the Right Job After College? Alex Levit Provides Some Answers

Do you ever ask yourself how one of your friends got a seemingly awesome job? Or, ever find yourself staring off into space while you sit at your desk, daydreaming about being in another line of work?
Well, Alexandra Levit surveyed 500 gen-Y and gen-X professionals to find people with their dream jobs and she [...]

An Exciting New Podcast for Young Professional Women

My colleague Alexandra Levit, VP at Edelman global marketing communications firm, recently started up a new podcast with fellow twenty-something authors Christine Hassler and Lindsey Pollak. It’s starting as a monthly feature on BlogTalkRadio this month. The 30/20 Vision podcast is for young women professionals. Check it out, it should be a fantastic resource for [...]

Interview: Michelle Goodman, Author of The Anti 9-to-5 Guide

My fifth expert guest for the Heroines of Personal Finance and Entrepreneurship series at IWillTeachYouToBeRich.com is Michelle Goodman — a great freelance writer in Seattle. She’s written for Salon, Bust, Bitch, Bark, the Seattle Times, and the San Francisco Bay Guardian, and now she’s released her first book — The Anti 9-to-5 Guide: Practical Career [...]