2008 is FINALLY Here!
As soon as the clock struck midnight last night I issued a major sigh of relief followed quickly by a few jumps for joy. I don’t know about you but 2007 was a really hard year. Nothing horrible happened so I feel ridiculous even complaining about it, but it was a challenging twelve months. It seemed to take so long for things to come together and when they finally did they were never what we quite expected. It also seemed especially difficult juggling everything. Usually energized by a full plate, I felt depleted most of last year. Not sure why that is, and I refuse to believe it’s because I am getting a tiny bit older. So, moving onwards and upwards, I am really looking forward to this year. On New Year’s Eve, I received an email from a friend who wrote “Hey, 2008 rhymes with great and I'm feeling it!”
I am feeling like this is going to be one fantastic year for women and their careers. No matter what your politics are, we do have a woman who is a serious contender for President of the United States and that’s a BIG deal. On the GG front, our new book, The Girl’s Guide to Kicking Your Career into Gear is launching on January 15th with an appearance on the Today Show (scary!) followed by several weeks of touring. It’s going to be hard being on the road, but as you may know, we love meeting you in person, hearing about your workplace successes, challenges and big changes. And as two girls who have been restaurant managers, television producers, sandwich makers, publishing executives, authors, pr managers and entrepreneurs—we know all about career change.
Being on television is fun but we are mostly looking forward to giving our Kicking Your Career into Gear Workshops around the country. Most of them are going to be free, open to the public and catered (who doesn’t love snacks!) so we hope you will join us. Look at our Meet page to see where we’re going. We decided with this book tour instead of just talking about the where, when and how’s of writing the book that we would offer something more at our signing. So for those of you who are planning on making 2008 your career year, then you might be interested in hearing what we are going to cover in the workshop—asking for what you deserve, playing workplace politics, the common fears that may be holding you back, defining your own success, how to change the structure of the job or when it’s time to start something new.
Speaking of starting something new, after our tour we will begin writing book four. I can’t believe we have even more to say about women at work but we do! This one is on working mothers so if any of you want to chime in on this topic give us a shout at caitlin@girlsguidetobusiness.com. We would love to consider you for an interview! In the meantime, a VERY Happy New Year to all of you and we hope to see you over the next several weeks!
I am feeling like this is going to be one fantastic year for women and their careers. No matter what your politics are, we do have a woman who is a serious contender for President of the United States and that’s a BIG deal. On the GG front, our new book, The Girl’s Guide to Kicking Your Career into Gear is launching on January 15th with an appearance on the Today Show (scary!) followed by several weeks of touring. It’s going to be hard being on the road, but as you may know, we love meeting you in person, hearing about your workplace successes, challenges and big changes. And as two girls who have been restaurant managers, television producers, sandwich makers, publishing executives, authors, pr managers and entrepreneurs—we know all about career change.
Being on television is fun but we are mostly looking forward to giving our Kicking Your Career into Gear Workshops around the country. Most of them are going to be free, open to the public and catered (who doesn’t love snacks!) so we hope you will join us. Look at our Meet page to see where we’re going. We decided with this book tour instead of just talking about the where, when and how’s of writing the book that we would offer something more at our signing. So for those of you who are planning on making 2008 your career year, then you might be interested in hearing what we are going to cover in the workshop—asking for what you deserve, playing workplace politics, the common fears that may be holding you back, defining your own success, how to change the structure of the job or when it’s time to start something new.
Speaking of starting something new, after our tour we will begin writing book four. I can’t believe we have even more to say about women at work but we do! This one is on working mothers so if any of you want to chime in on this topic give us a shout at caitlin@girlsguidetobusiness.com. We would love to consider you for an interview! In the meantime, a VERY Happy New Year to all of you and we hope to see you over the next several weeks!
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