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Comment on Make every conversation engaging by Andrea Zak

Andrea Zak — Sat, 25 Jun 2011 05:19:37 +0000

It was a great condensed talk. One of the only ones for which I took copious notes. Hope to see you next year!

Andrea

Comment on Make every conversation engaging by Warren Etheredge

Warren Etheredge — Thu, 23 Jun 2011 06:30:04 +0000

Thanks for the summary, Andrea, I hope you enjoyed my somewhat one-sided “conversation” at the conference. Clearly, you were listening because you took good notes. ; ). Take luck, Warren

Comment on Trust30 | making a name for myself by Andrea Zak

Andrea Zak — Fri, 10 Jun 2011 03:07:15 +0000

Thanks, Marthe.

It’s taken a long time to fine tune my long term interests. Now it’s time to find a company that will put to work what I have to offer.

Last week was just one opportunity flowing to the next after I started talking about what I wanted and needed. So I’m just going to try to keep that forward momentum in place.

Fingers crossed I land round 2 in short order.

Hope you’re enjoying your travels; I see your tweets about them

Comment on Trust30 | making a name for myself by Marthe

Marthe — Fri, 10 Jun 2011 00:01:06 +0000

Andrea, this is great!

You’re so brave to share your dream, I know how scary it can be.

And I strongly believe that it’s one of the most imporant steps towards realizing your goal. Not only do you share your dream with others who might be able to help, you’re also making it clear for yourself that this is something you really want to do. The more uncormfortable it feels to share, the more do you need to do it.

I’m so happy to see that you’ve already met people who can help! I have no doubt that you’re going to make it!

Good luck on your interview, I’m so excited too hear how it turns out!

All the best,
Marthe
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Comment on Trust30 | 15 minutes to live by Andrea Zak

Andrea Zak — Thu, 09 Jun 2011 03:58:57 +0000

Far too often, stories don’t make it from generation to generation. So it’s great to get them on the record

Comment on Trust30 | 15 minutes to live by Janet

Janet — Sat, 04 Jun 2011 16:34:39 +0000

i like doing it my way too i don’t know why, but i love hearing stories like these of their relatives.
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Comment on Trust30 | 15 minutes to live by Andrea Zak

Andrea Zak — Thu, 02 Jun 2011 01:49:13 +0000

My grandma was a feminist before it was even a word.

The only timeline that matters is your own.

Comment on Trust30 | 15 minutes to live by Susan Pogorzelski

Susan Pogorzelski — Wed, 01 Jun 2011 17:18:21 +0000

Your grandmother reminds me so much of my own — a woman who married late in life and bought her own house (crazy back in that day when men ruled the roost) for her family to live in. I like to think I’m following in her footsteps; I like to think of her as an inspiration to me.

And when I think about any regrets I should have — not being married, not starting a family, still building my career — I look at everything I do — having been overseas, buying my own house — and I think: she would be so proud of me. So why shouldn’t I be proud of myself?

Awesome start to the challenge, Andrea! Your grandmother sounds like an amazing woman — I can see where you get your independence from

Comment on Finding community in books by Andrea Zak

Andrea Zak — Sun, 08 May 2011 03:28:14 +0000

Welcome, Janet!

I can’t say that I read any of the Lurlene McDaniel books but I read Gunther’s Death Be Not Proud a dozen times as a kid. Summer of My German Soldier also stands out as a book I read often.

I always had a love-hate relationship with the classics because I kept reading the ones where the women met desperate ends over a guy. And I just never thought he was worth it in the end, but if the book has stood the test of time — it must be worth reading right?

Do you still get caught up in series books as an adult. Paulina Simons did a trilogy startiing with The Bronze Horseman that I was very attached to. I think I’ve been reading Lee Child’s Jack Reacher books for almost 15 years now.

Comment on Finding community in books by Janet

Janet — Sat, 07 May 2011 17:17:37 +0000

I love books so I had to respond My childhood favorites were also the SVH series, Nancy Drew and its more modern counterpart, Harriet the Spy, The Boxcar Children, Ramona Quimby, and Lurlene McDaniel books (the ones that were always about cancer patients and dying).. I also LOVED era pieces like Anne of Green Gable series by Lucy Maud Montgomery, Little Women (a classic), Heidi, and the Laura Ingalls Wilder books. I suppose I typically resonated with strong female characters.. Even to this day, I still dream of living in a ‘hobbit’ house and was completely fascinated via Little House in the Prairie.. that there are dwellings that exist as earth itself.. Her family lived IN a hill, like hobbits! I would love to live/own a mud house (eco-friendly) someday!!!