Work Life

JUNE 29, 2024

Years ago, when my firm was just getting established, I was pitching for a new creative contract. I brought along an older male consultant who had wrinkles, a pot belly, thinning hair, and a 30-year-old portfolio of corporate speech writing. I wanted him to accompany me because I was attempting to fend off ageism as an insecure, self-conscious, entrepreneur scared to go alone into a dark wood-paneled boardroom, feeling that my experience was not commensurate with my talent.

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Mad in America

JUNE 29, 2024

L ast year I attended a prestigious international psychiatric conference at PGI Chandigarh, India, a medical school of considerable reputation in South Asia. The theme of the conference was public mental health. It was held over three whole days; 900 people from across the world had registered to attend, both face to face and virtually! It was a star-studded event, with prominent figures from world psychiatry in attendance.

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Work Life

JUNE 29, 2024

If you’ve been laid off, furloughed, or needed to take unpaid time off to take care of yourself or a family member, it can be easy to let your good financial habits fall to the wayside. After losing a job, when you’re in economic survival mode , who has the time to think about investing for the future? But your loss of income doesn’t have to derail your financial plans.

Healthcare 98

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Work Life

JUNE 29, 2024

Venture capital plays an important role in helping new businesses get off the ground. The field also has a stubborn gender gap. More than four in five partners at U.S.-based venture capital firms are men, surveys and research show. Perhaps relatedly, VC firms overwhelmingly direct their funds to man-led businesses: In 2023, only about one in four VC funds were allocated to woman-led companies, according to Crunchbase data.

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