Women, Invest in Yourselves First with the Empowering Wealthy Girl Summit 2008

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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 [...]

An Interview with Karen Seeh, Corporate Sustainability Strategist

Karen Seeh is a young environmental professional and consultant in the Dallas/Fort Worth area, with over ten years of experience at the intersection of business and environmental sustainability. In other words, Karen has been doing this since before it was the cool thing to do! Karen exercises her passion for launching mission-based ventures as Principal [...]

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 [...]

Interview: Julie Jansen, Career Coach and Motivational Speaker

IWillTeachYouToBeRich.com has hosted the fourth interview in my Heroines of Personal Finance and Entrepreneurship series. Julie Jansen is a motivational speaker, career coach, and author. She has a great deal of experience helping everyone from CEOs to managers to entrepreneurs find gratifying work and she has some great thoughts on gender and business. Here are [...]

Interview: Alexandra Levit, Author of They Don’t Teach Corporate In College

Part three in Heroines of Personal Finance and Entrepreneurship series at IWillTeachYouToBeRich.com: Alexandra Levit is the author of They Don’t Teach Corporate in College: A Twenty-Something’s Guide to the Business World, and a regular corporate and university speaker on Gen-Y employees. She is the founder and president of Inspiration@Work career consultancy and also serves as [...]

Interview: Anya Kamenetz, Author of Generation Debt

The Heroines of Personal Finance and Entrepreneurship series continues at IWillTeachYouToBeRich.com with Anya Kamenetz, a young author and columnist for the New York Times, Washington Post, Salon, Slate, and Village Voice. Her first book is Generation Debt: How Our Future Was Sold Out for Student Loans, Bad Jobs, No Benefits, and Tax Cuts for Rich [...]

Interview: Pamela Slim of Escape From Cubicle Nation

I’ve been working on a interview series over at IWillTeachYouToBeRich.com about women and their relationship with personal finance and business, featuring several successful female entrepreneurs, consultants, and freelancers. The first one-on-one is with Pamela Slim, a great gal from Mesa, AZ. Pam left the corporate world in 1996 to start Ganas Consulting, and she writes [...]

Interview Series with A Few Prestigious Female Authors

I’ve been working hard the past two weeks on getting an interview series together for Ramit Sethi’s site IWillTeachYouToBeRich.com. We are hosting interviews with authors and experts on women and personal finance/entrepreneurship, so it’s been very interesting so far. The series starts this week, so keep an eye on IWillTeachYouToBeRich.com for more info. Also, I [...]