Let's Grow Leaders

MARCH 4, 2015

“You’ve always been like that,” my mom shared. How do we best help feel more confident to give their dreams a go? I’m always humbled when I go back and read some of my earliest blog posts. I’m always humbled when I go back and read some of my earliest blog posts. My parents both just smiled.

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Let's Grow Leaders

JUNE 16, 2014

If you’re newer here, read this one from my first year of blogging (about my Dad who this year spent his Father’s Day supporting me at the hospital… yup, foreshadowing). I’m going to start with a pre-apology. This won’t be my best post, but I always believe in showing up when expected- and transparency.

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Hospitality Education Leadership IT 376

Penelope Trunk

MAY 12, 2023

John Gallagher wrote his dissertation about how people with a large following online relate to comments from their audience. Heather and I both started blogs in 2002, we both got in trouble for writing about our coworkers, we both wrote about our bodies, our pregnancies, our money, and our divorces. It doesn’t work.

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Let's Grow Leaders

MAY 20, 2016

There are two ways to participate…either submit a blog post on the topic, or your 1-2 sentence answer to the question. This month, we invited leadership experts to either submit a blog post, or answer the following question. How do you invest in your professional development on a regular basis? Click here to participate!

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Let's Grow Leaders

JULY 14, 2016

This month’s festival gives tips about taking a break from work. There are two ways to participate…either submit a blog post on the topic, or your 1-2 sentence answer to the question. There are two ways to participate…either submit a blog post on the topic, or your 1-2 sentence answer to the question. Follow Beth.

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On The Job

NOVEMBER 10, 2015

All you have to do these days to know some of the most intimate details of someone's life is to check out Twitter or Facebook or read the person's blog. For example, how many times has a co-worker shared the details (and I mean DETAILS) about the birth of a recent child? Look at those sitting within six to 10 feet of you at work.

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Penelope Trunk

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

That’s how easy it is. What I want to do in coaching sessions is say, “This is your personality type, here’s your real problem, here’s how to fix it.” Some neurotypical men read this blog. I want to be a compassionate mom. Autistic moms are challenged. My kids have had enough.

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Penelope Trunk

SEPTEMBER 11, 2021

This is obvious to me because in the months after the towers fell, my world was my recovery support groups — and in my groups, the conversations were all about who is going back to work. My groups were mostly people in banking, insurance, and tech because that’s who worked at the World Trade Center. He kept working.

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Penelope Trunk

AUGUST 22, 2014

I was talking to this woman who’s in her late 20s about how you have to know what you want to be respected for in order to feel respected. You waste money on things that don’t work. You waste money on things that don’t work. I take anti-anxiety medicine that maybe I would not need if I were not a mom.

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Penelope Trunk

AUGUST 23, 2022

Melissa wants you to know that she did not edit the post about how doctors are the most annoying of all the professional women I coach. Even though I’ve yelled a trillion times about how terrible grad school is, I thought maybe I need to get a PhD so I could do official autism research. This is what I’m dealing with.

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On The Job

SEPTEMBER 22, 2014

But as the number of hours American workers spend on work-related tasks increases, it’s becoming clear that no amount of technology is going to fix the problem. Think about how much you earn an hour, and whether making a restaurant reservation with a new client, for example, is worth that amount per hour. How do I do it efficiently?

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Penelope Trunk

MAY 20, 2014

I have written many posts about how important it is for gay people to come out of the closet at work. They earn more money , for one thing, because if you are your true self at work people like you more, and likable people earn more money. Did you ever notice how much art is on this blog? Like this and this ?

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Penelope Trunk

JUNE 30, 2014

Even she has no idea how to teach black boys to avoid getting shot. And, if she did such a good job of doing her job and her family, how do we explain that she just got a divorce ?). Because newsflash: You need millions of dollars to make a newborn and a startup work together if you’re a woman. They quit work. (At

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Vantage Circle

AUGUST 13, 2021

So, who do you think is responsible for employees' happiness at work? According to Tim Sharp, employees have showcase greater efficacy and efficiency when they can design their own work. According to Tim Sharp, employees have showcase greater efficacy and efficiency when they can design their own work. About The Speaker.

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Penelope Trunk

APRIL 22, 2013

One of the first things I wondered about the Farmer when I met him is why he was even reading my blog. ” The more knowledge I have about farming the more I scream about how he treats the animals. Because he’s amazing and this is a post about how amazing he is and I don’t want him to be a character on my blog anymore.

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Penelope Trunk

FEBRUARY 12, 2017

ComPsych is this place that puts out research about how employees feel, and it turns out that feelings are generational. At least at work. But I guess this is just showing how old I am. I have been blogging so long that I was blogging when the biggest problem Gen Y had was helicopter parenting.

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Penelope Trunk

APRIL 15, 2013

I have to tell you that because this is a career blog and career blogs need topics that fall into the career space. You can’t have a blog that doesn’t have a topic. My blog topic is not how to make a ton of money. But teaching yoga for someone else is being a worker bee and it’s working for free.

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Penelope Trunk

FEBRUARY 15, 2018

Also, I might even have a gaming blog. You’ll want to come back to my gaming blog for more borderline racist commentary. I read about how kids sell their accounts , or they get paid to play on other kids accounts to win games. I’d say top 10% is how I would define committed. I have a lot to say.

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Penelope Trunk

MAY 25, 2016

My mom and ex-husband and now-husband all have a birthday in the first week of April. Like, I had a hunch that I’m working fifty-hour weeks, because I’m always squeezing work in between other stuff, but then I graphed my time and it turned out I am working about thirty hours.

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Penelope Trunk

JULY 25, 2022

My safe space is the comments section here on my blog where the only social rule is: be interesting. Wanting to do everything how we want to do it at the cost of making compromise to share life with someone else is the definition of autism…The human race would not have survived if it were normal to want these things.

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Penelope Trunk

SEPTEMBER 9, 2016

I told this guy, Brendan , that I would write about his baby bottles on my blog. Then he sent the bottles to me, and I liked them, so writing about them on the blog didn’t seem like it would be that difficult. Also, Brendan has been reading my blog for a long time. Well, first I told him he had to pay me.

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Penelope Trunk

SEPTEMBER 19, 2011

When people tell me they want to stay home with their kids and they can’t afford it, I want to yell at them about how when I was trying to write freelance and take care of the kids I had a babysitter refuse to come to the house because we had no food in the house. That was me, affording to stay home with my kids and not work.

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CMOE

MARCH 6, 2023

To get started, begin bookmarking these 21 best business strategy blogs. Each blog offers unique thought leadership materials to help guide your strategy in the upcoming quarter. Each blog offers unique thought leadership materials to help guide your strategy in the upcoming quarter. As industries continue to evolve, so must we.

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Penelope Trunk

MARCH 29, 2015

So I am answering emails and I have an inbox full of writing from people who are paying me to edit their blog posts. I read, edit, reply, read, edit, reply, and then I get to Erin, who sometimes writes on my education blog , so she is a decent writer, but sometimes she gets all INFP on me and writes total crap. It’s extravagant.

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Penelope Trunk

SEPTEMBER 29, 2014

The trick is to experiment constantly with giving something up, and trying to make everything else work. My husband is someone who worked really really hard his whole life and is a millionaire, but it’s in land. So I got a farm and a house, but I still have to work for the cash we spend. Probably not.

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Penelope Trunk

SEPTEMBER 20, 2017

If you read this blog for even just a tiny bit of time you know there will be no beating around the bush. If you read this blog for even just a tiny bit of time you know there will be no beating around the bush. They say interesting things, like, “Mom, why are you so forgiving to everyone in your life? ” Well.

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Penelope Trunk

OCTOBER 11, 2018

But really I think I picked Boston because I never tell anyone how much I’m failing my kids, but Lauren visits me a lot , so maybe she sort of already knows, because she says things like, “There needs to be a lid on your trash can so the garbage doesn’t make the whole kitchen smell.” “Until when?”

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Penelope Trunk

JANUARY 2, 2014

She works with me at Quistic. And here’s another guest post she wrote , before we started working together. . A few years ago I targeted Penelope as someone I want to work with. You can probably tell from reading this blog that Penelope would be a difficult boss. Show how you can improve the bottom line.

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Penelope Trunk

JUNE 19, 2011

And on Father's Day I feel particularly grateful for both men, because they work really hard to make sure the kids feel like they have an integrated, stable family. I think this is true for all work, not just politics. " I know that Father's Day is traditionally the day to say how great dads are blah blah.

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Penelope Trunk

JANUARY 7, 2014

If you are sick of me promoting my courses on this blog, then please note that this is not the post where I am promoting this course. I pay someone to do our laundry, and for the first two months she worked for us, she would always ask where my laundry is. My personal hygiene is holding back the growth of my startup.

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On The Job

JUNE 16, 2010

Helpful information and advice from Americas favorite workplace columnist About Anita Blog Books Syndicated Column Interviews Career Links Contact Wednesday, June 16, 2010 Could Being Conscientious Make Unemployment Worse? In my family, if you werent working, it had better be because you were dead or at least unconscious in a ditch somewhere.

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Penelope Trunk

AUGUST 6, 2015

I am settling into the reality that I work relatively few hours a day. I am settling into the reality that I work relatively few hours a day. I can’t work with other people because my work hours are too erratic. But time is going so fast, so I spend a lot of time reading about how people deal with time passing.

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On The Job

JANUARY 12, 2010

Helpful information and advice from Americas favorite workplace columnist About Anita Blog Books Syndicated Column Interviews Career Links Contact Tuesday, January 12, 2010 6 tips for handling a pregnancy and a career When I was pregnant with my first child, I was determined to be professional and discreet about the issue at work.

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Penelope Trunk

MAY 8, 2012

I have learned how to milk a goat, even though I’m terrible at it. The piglets run all over the farm like they’re free-range chickens, and because the mom is stuck in the pen, the piglets always come back. Now they spend their days waiting for the mom to go get food so they hold the kittens.

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Vantage Circle

MAY 27, 2023

Working 9-5 can be exhausting for your employees. How can you organize your small employee break room to maximize space and minimize clutter? In this blog, we've compiled a list of creative and practical office breakroom ideas that will do wonders for your employee morale , team bonding, and overall productivity.

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Penelope Trunk

APRIL 25, 2013

I have a job that requires about 60 hours of work a week. So the only way to get by is to stop thinking of time in terms of work time and personal time. I used to think of it as a terrible day where I drive eight hours and get no work done. But then I realized I could do work while I drive. Work life/Home life.

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Penelope Trunk

DECEMBER 28, 2011

How he can’t get any peace and quiet in his own house. I’m trying to make sure this is a career blog, because, if nothing else, if I don’t have a career then it’s pretty hard to have the discussion of why I am not leaving. I thought it would be such a big deal when I stopped working there. I am at a hotel. It’s my fault.

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