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by Carol Fishman Cohen

In a previous blog post, I wrote about Whitney Johnson's book Dare Dream Do, which uses the power of dreaming to identify goals for work or life. Once identified, says Johnson, those dreams that are realistic can and should be pursued.   

Continuing on this theme, in Act Three, Create the Life You Want After Your First Career and Full Time Motherhood, author Julie Shifman focuses her "Imagine, then do it" philosophy on the at-home motherhood population looking for their next "Act," whether it be paid work, a social action project, or a personal health goal. read more

By Carol Fishman Cohen

Wow - women and work topics are certainly top of the news these days! Here are some thoughts on the most prominent and controversial headlines.
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By Carol Fishman Cohen

Whitney Johnson’s Dare Dream Do: Remarkable Things Happen When You Dare to Dream (Bibliomotion, 2012) calls out to relaunchers with a prescription for encouraging uncensored dreaming and occasionally acting on those dreams that make sense in the current context of one’s life. The strength of the book is in the real-life stories. Johnson leads with her own story and her own dreams, some of which she pursues and some she rejects as unrealistic. She includes the candid accounts of 50 women, many of whom are relaunchers in all stages of the return-to-work process. read more

Please click on the image to watch Carol on NBC's Today Show discussing Returning Professional Internships.

Guest Blogger - Maria Kieslich
Senior Director of Operations, TeenLife Media, LLC

Three years ago I was laid off my full-time position in management at a small software and Internet company. Luckily my husband and I were in a position where I could decide to stay home for a bit - which was a good thing because I was burnt out (actually, I have “relaunched” or had home/work transitions four times in my career. But this is the first one where I purposely stayed home for a while). My husband had been traveling 25% of the time for years, I had been traveling regularly for work, and our nine-year-old daughter had been battling health and academic challenges. I wasn’t going all “Donna Reed,” but I thought I would move a bit in that direction and see what happened. read more

See our article in Harvard Business Review, "The 40-Year-Old Intern" - based on our just released white paper on "Returning Professional 'Internships.'" You can access the Abstract and Table of Contents here. 

Illustration credit: Alison Seiffer, Harvard Business Review

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Guest blogger - Nikki Steingold, iRelaunch Director of Communications

After every iRelaunch Return to Work Conference we ask our attendees to fill out a survey so that we can ensure that the Conference is accomplishing the goals we set. Of course, there's always something we can improve upon ("Really, one bathroom for all those women?"). But clearly the majority of responses tell us that we're on the right path.

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by Vivian Steir Rabin
(Read this blog in its entirety on The Glass Hammer)

It’s that time of year again. Back to school. Although I have only one child still at home, the beginning of September will always feel like the beginning of the New Year to me. I even tend to plot my New Year’s resolutions over the summer. “This fall, I’ll… contact ten potential new clients, finish those foreign language CDs, start exercising regularly (yeah, right!).

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