Growing up, I wanted to be average. I wanted to be like everyone else. I wanted long, pretty highlights in my hair. I was the only kid...

Back when I was a teenager, I rode my 10-speed bike to the grocery store and to my doctor’s appointments. I scheduled my own...

It was the summer of 1991, and I just graduated from high school. My mom bought an RV and gave up her apartment in Beverly Hills. My...

Starting out in marketing my business, I tried everything. I was an expert editor for Nerdwallet I did a weekly news program on money I...

Growing up in New Canaan, CT, we were middle class. It was a time when we wore tube socks and velour sweatpants. My parents were...

A year before we moved to Atlanta, we were living in Houston. I played with the idea of leaving investment management and working at a...

Since I was in business school, I had wanted to start my own business. When I started to burn out commuting to NYC, I started some side...

When I started my investment banking career, I was intimated, insecure, and lacked confidence. I felt outnumbered and surrounded by...

As a kid, I always wanted to be rich. My friends lived in beautiful houses in Beverly Hills. They drove BMWs and Porsches. They bought...

One of the best lessons I’ve learned growing up in LA is this. Where you went to school, grades are not a predictor of success. We all...

On Tuesday, the day before my colonoscopy, I’m instructed to fast. As I write this, I’m starving. But now I have a new lens, which is for...

I’ve always wanted to start my own business. But I thought it was too risky. How do I take the plunge to start something? - What if I...

I elected to have major surgery, but I was worried about the pain. To manage my fear, I googled pain management. - Breath deeply - Focus...

Remember the app? The site “Am I hot or not” was founded by James Hong and Jim Young. The two friends created this site from a...

Every morning during the summer, my email inbox was filled with negative headlines. Inflation, War, Lockdowns in China, stagflation, and...

One of the things I hate most about being a busy working mom is going to Costco. - Can’t find parking. - I have to dig out of my purse...

There is always an opportunity in a crisis. Sometimes events can cause us to re-evaluate. Two years ago, during COVID-19 when the world...

And now it's time to tighten my belt. We just returned from summer vacation. We ate cheese and meat, drank wine and shopped. And so...

I went to a very rich high school. I tagged along shopping with my friends who spent a lot of money using their parent’s credit cards....

In 2003, I was in the right seat at the right time. China was aggressively building out its infrastructure. Everything that China was...