Letters To My Younger Self®

A Letter To My Younger Self About A False Great Life

admin — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 23:41:55 +0000

This letter was created for a 2011 Letters To My Younger Self® Seminar Michele Meyer-Shipp is a Vice President and Counsel at a large insurance company, providing legal advice and counsel on a variety of employment-related matters to several internal clients. Michele and her now-ex husband were the rock star couple at the top of Read More

A Letter To My Younger Self About Standing Up for Yourself

admin — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 23:41:35 +0000

This letter was created for a 2011 Letters To My Younger Self ® Seminar Denise Quinn is a Vice President in a large insurance company, where she oversees strategic projects and also leads various projects within its marketing and distribution division. Before this career, Denise worked for a large retailer, which was the setting for Read More

A Letter To My Younger Self About Being a Perfect Mother and Professional

admin — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 23:41:05 +0000

This letter was created for a 2011 Letters To My Younger Self ® Seminar Elaine Green is a Vice President at a large insurance company within the controller’s department. She chose to write to herself during a pivotal, highly pressured time in her career and personal life. It was January of 1999, during the year-end Read More

Guess what Taylor Swift’s been reading? Check it out in People magazine!

admin — Mon, 28 Nov 2011 13:03:30 +0000

Thank you David Brooks

espragins — Sat, 18 Jun 2011 16:43:28 +0000

I’m privileged to look behind the curtain and I know it. Working with executives, celebrities, neighbors, friends and women everywhere on writing letters to their younger selves gives me a glimpse into what I think of as their interior landscape. It’s emotional territory, but studded with distinctive landmarks, just like the earth’s topography: shining pools Read More

A Letter to My Younger Self About Finding Joy in the Unknown

admin — Tue, 14 Jun 2011 19:09:52 +0000

This letter was created for the book “What I Know Now About Success.” “Definitely a Type A personality.” “Every minute on my Blackberry is accounted for.” “I’m the kind of person who always chooses the same route for my daily run in any given city, rather than explore a new course.” This, in part, was Read More

A Letter to My Younger Self About Learning to Live with MS

admin — Tue, 14 Jun 2011 19:07:24 +0000

This letter was written by Susan Achey at 42 years old to herself at the age of 32. She had the life she always dreamed of working as a copywriter at an advertising agency in New York City. But the rug was pulled out from under her. Dear Mini Me, Everything is going great in your life.Read More

A Letter to My Younger Self About Taking Responsibility for Your Mental and Physical Health

admin — Tue, 14 Jun 2011 19:04:47 +0000

This letter was created for the book “What I Know Now About Success.” If you had met Paula Deen in high school in Albany, Georgia, you wouldn’t have been the least bit surprised. Paulann Hiers had the personality you know: gregarious, bubbly, and funny. As captain of the cheerleading squad, she was practically royalty in the South of the 1960s. “Life was just so great. I had so Read More

A Letter to My Younger Self About the Hurt of the Twenties

admin — Tue, 14 Jun 2011 19:01:38 +0000

This letter was written by Kristin Brown at age 27 to herself at age 24. It was three years after her dad’s car accident and untimely death. This was compounded by the quarter-life crisis she was already experiencing. Dear Kristin, You'll continue through your early twenties being single. This will seem like both a curse and a blessing. Read More

A Letter to My Younger Self About Dividing Your Focus

admin — Tue, 14 Jun 2011 18:59:43 +0000

This letter is from 48-year-old Hanne Ankerson written to herself at age 25. Hanne just had her first baby. Her husband had a good job, and she had about three semesters left before finishing her master’s degree in political science. Dear Hanne, You are sitting at the dining room table trying to study for an Read More