Welcome to 2012! Of course, as I blog midway through the month, I had every intention of blogging much earlier. Alas…lots to report! As my site gets revamped, here’s a quick snapshot:
- I heart being quoted to share my career insight. In this AOL Jobs piece I talk about soft skills, the importance of the lunch interview and oh yes, social skills (hey, is there an echo in here?). If you have technical expertise and someone else does, too, what will really make you sparkle and stand out is Y*O*U! Your personality, your ability to small talk and simply get along with others. Play nicely in that sandbox, ‘k?
- GO YANKEES! I launched a new blog, Yankee Diamonds for women who love baseball and our bling. Be sure to check it out!
- On New Year’s Eve some people (translation: tourists) hang out at Times Square; others go to house parties. Yours truly traipsed to Beauty & Essex to interview Real Housewife, Kim Zolciak (see pic).
- On that note, Jorge Posada is retiring. Bummed about that but saw it coming and would much rather see him retire than play for a lackluster team. Sadly though the core four is down to two. Hip hip Jorge!
I so need to blog. I so need to blog. I so need to blog.
This was my mantra the past few months when life was moving at lightning speed. So, yes, I’ve neglected my website a bit. But guess what? I’m baaaaack!
With a vengeance. Tonight I interviewed Scarlett Johansson, Matt Damon and others for one of my fave clients. So much fun! That’s all I got. Brain is fried and I need to transcribe one more Q&A. Wheeee!
Actually, I’m back from TO and home sweet home in NYC but thoroughly rocked out to TIFF11! I absolutely loved every minute of the five days I was there, including highlights: Talking to Madonna at the press conference on Monday for W.E. (on the best career advice she’d ever been given); listened to Francis Ford Coppola at a presser say he “failed my way upward” (Really?!) and oh-so-much-more!
Apparently it took 30 years for his movies to catch on and become a hit. Oh, Friday was a real hoot with the Moneyball presser as well as Ides of March…(so yes, Brad Pitt and George Clooney were present! Needless to say, adrenalin was pumping and by 8 p.m. I was exhausted!)…this is in addition to the super intensely fun red carpet ride!
Ah, so much fun! Also, loved hearing Gerard Butler saying how he looks at new projects in terms of how he can venture outside the comfort zone. Yet more career prowess we can learn from celebs who risked it all. Seriously, at one point or another most of them were starving artists and believed in themselves to the ends of the earth to pursue their dreams!
Fabulous! Just fabulous. Can’t wait to go back next year now that I’ve learned the ins and outs of the fest and press lounge, etc. So sparkly. MWUAH!
ps. Did I mention I asked Madonna a career-related question?! 
I’ve started interviewing athletes! So imagine my excitement to interview tennis players on the bring of the U.S. Open two weeks ago! Though I
Continue reading Got Game? Rafa Does…
As I jet today to the Toronto Film Festival (so excited!!), I realize I didn’t post my interview with the woman who started the
Continue reading My Interview With Candace Bushnell, Author of ‘Sex and the City’!
Want some tough love? I can’t hear you! I said, “DO YOU WANT SOME TOUGH LOVE?!”
There, that’s better.
This fall I’m launching personalized
Continue reading Career Boot Camp for College Grads!
Manic Monday? Not really. Fabulous is more like it!
Nothing gets old and if I were a robot, I’d say how “pleased” I am
Continue reading Thank you, BlogHer For Naming Me One of the “Top 25 Career & Business Women Bloggers Worth Reading”
This is a great piece highlighting Marci Alboher’s concept of slash careers; I loved being interviewed for this one because it reminded me how
Continue reading How to Create a Career W/Out a Full-Time Job! Check Out My Advice on U.S. News & World Report!
Ever get enough of stillness, unleashing your passion, and career mojo and moxie? Me neither. That’s why I wrote another piece centering around my
Continue reading More Deepak! 5 Ways to Boost Your Productivity at the Office
Want to feel more productive at work, play harder, work less? Check out my latest piece for The New York Post, my interview with
Continue reading My Interview with DEEPAK CHOPRA! (yes, I’m shouting!)
Welcome to 2012! Of course, as I blog midway through the month, I had every intention of blogging much earlier. Alas…lots to report! As my site gets revamped, here’s a quick snapshot:
Vicki Salemi is a vivacious media personality, author, journalist and die-hard Yankees fan!
