Early in the planning process, you need to find out everything you think you want to go into. What exactly do you do day-to-day in this career?  How did others get their start? How do you get ahead? What are the negatives, the benefits? Talk to people who are doing what you think you want…

Creative heroines are big picture women, but when it comes to detail (the devil is in the details) they get distracted. The possibilities are limitless, which makes the concept of planning a career overwhelming. The answer is to break it down, then simplify it and streamline it further by using rolemodels.  Who is doing what…

It is not where you start that matters, it is where you finish.  It may be that in the early years of a career (or a career change) you have to get the coffee, make the copies, and do the grunt work. Do it with a smile and some savoir -faire. Give people more than…

A vocation is what you want to do with the rest of your life. It is your ‘heroine’s journey’. A career is the line of work you are in and the work yo do. You change careers, but rarely change vocation. A job is wha tyou are doing at this moment. When you feel as…

Selling your talent is tough. It may even be distasteful, especially if you don’t believe in yourself. Many creative heroines defend their inability to sell as an unwillingness to sell out. Get off your high horse. I am not the devil because I believe you have to get your story out. As a creative heroine,…

Delegate means “to trust to others”.  Not easy to implement partly because you have your own story of what delegate means. Sometimes, you donot know how to find or manage a delegatee. Let us explore and explode some of the biggest myths about delegating. Myth:  It would have been easier to do it myself.  Reality:…