Three Things I Wish I Had Known in My 20’s: Heidi R. Burkhart

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Heidi R. Burkhart is the President of premier New York City affordable housing brokerage and consulting firm, Dane Professional Consulting Group (Dane PCG). If that wasn’t enough, she is also the founder of cause marketing company, Saxon/Hart. Heidi is an expert at what she does! She has facilitated the closings of over 10,000 affordable housing units, totaling well over $1 billion in sales. Pretty awesome!

She wanted to continue

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How to Navigate the Fickle Waters of Freelancing

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Freelancing isn’t for everyone. In theory picking and choosing projects, making your own schedule and setting your own rates sounds great. But the reality of freelance can be littered with lack of work and slow days that can lead to a strain on your income.

Personally, I enjoy the freedom of being a freelance publicist, but there are challenges that people often don’t realize. These

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Career Confidential: Nadia Murdock

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Full name?: Nadia Murdock

Position / Job title?: Mind and Body Fitness Coach, Author and Media Expert

1. When you were a kid, what did you want to be when you grew up? An Actress!

2. Fast-forward several years/decades. How did you land (or create) your current position? I love that you said “create” because that is exactly what I did! After hitting a roadblock in my career I started to

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Tips for Taking Productive Breaks Throughout the Day

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I love my job, but I have one big complaint about the work I do. It’s unhealthy. And by that I mean I sit in front of my computer for hours each day which drains my energy and allows little opportunity to move around and get my blood flowing. I’m sure by now everyone’s read something about the studies done on how sitting for eight

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Find an Office Space that Works for You

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I have been thinking a lot about my office space lately. I’m not the type of person that can work productively from home so about three years ago I joined a local coworking space. It helped me differentiate between work and home life by providing a dedicated where and when for work. It also gave me human interaction, which is very important to me. I have

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Tips on how to become a successful entrepreneur in a male-dominated industry

DyMynd Carolyn Headshot HiResCarolyn Leonard was the third female independent trader to ever own a seat at the Chicago Board Options Exchange. Since then, she has continually worked her way up in the male dominated industry.

Today, she is the CEO of DyMynd, a company that “cracks the code on women and finances”. The service provides financial institutions with a psychometrically sound profiling system to help female clientele understand their psyche in relation to money​,

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What’s Up with Glam?

I have had this post on my to do list for a few weeks now. Everyday, I promise myself that I am going to write a “What’s Up with Glam?” entry, but then it never gets done. There are a variety of reasons why I haven’t been writing much about Glam lately.

Partially I have been putting off this post because I don’t actually know what to write. For some reason, I have a hard time talking about Glamtrepreneur. I feel like the cause is very close to my heart, so I don’t like sharing it with people. I know,

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Three Things I Wish I Had Known in My 20’s: Tomima Edmark

Headshot-Tomima_editedHerRoom wasn’t Tomima Edmark’s first entrepreneurial endeavor. In fact, she is the inventor of TopsyTail, the wildly successful women’s hair accessory that made $150 million in revenue.

When Tomima decided to get into the lingerie business, she made it her mission to learn everything she possibly could. She learned from design teams, manufacturers and consumers. Now, she probably knows more than she wants to about the complex engineering that goes into designing

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Taking Advantage of Your Internship so it Doesn’t Take Advantage of You

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It’s hard to believe it’s already the end of July and school will be starting soon. With the start of the new school year come the applications for fall internships.

I have mixed feelings about internships. On the one hand, I wouldn’t be where I am today without my internships. They gave me real world experience and the insight I needed to start my own business. Without

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Career Confidential: Ashley Marie Zygmunt

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Position / Job title?: CEO & Designer of ZAMRIE

1. When you were a kid, what did you want to be when you grew up?

A business woman wearing suits. It was always about the clothes for me.

2. Fast-forward several years/decades. How did you land (or create) your current position?

Hard work, not taking no for an answer and surrounding myself with people who believe in my purpose and my

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