In this installment of Women Who Wow, meet Sheryl Odentz. Sheryl is the founder of Progress in Work, an award-winning, career management firm that provides attorneys and other professionals within the legal industry with tools and resources to “progress in work” and maximize career success through business development training and coaching, executive/leadership coaching and outplacement/career transition consulting. Learn more about her.
Today is Mother’s Day, a difficult day for me and many other people who no longer have a mom. But I’m not going to do a post about how much
My mentor has always reminded me that happiness is a choice available to each of us and is crucial for our well being. She also told me that it’s okay to not be okay all of the time.
After the recent ending of a relationship, she again said to me, “I know you’re sad now, but you can to choose to be happy.”
You can be stuck feeling bad during bad times or you can choose to make hardships and the worst times of your life teaching moments and turn them into something positive. You’d be surprised just how resilient each of us are if we just believe it.
Also, happiness comes easier to some people and others must choose to be happy at certain points in our lives in order to turn the tide around or just to carry on and not to fall into a dark hole of despair.
I’m about to share a personal story in the hopes that it helps others. Not everyone shares what’s going on with them personally with professional colleagues, but I want others to know that life is messy and no one is perfect – especially me, and so many of us are struggling with personal crises and it’s a miracle we are so high functioning. It’s about time we got real and stop making it seem like everything is fine when it’s not.
Paula T. Edgar, Esq., is a partner at Inclusion Strategy Solutions LLC, a consulting firm that provides innovative and strategic solutions on organizational diversity efforts, intercultural fluency initiatives, sexual harassment prevention and EEO compliance.
Paula speaks and consults on these and other topics by facilitating workshops, conducting live and virtual professional development training, delivering keynote speeches and coaching executives. Paula is an expert in inclusive executive/leadership development, personal branding, networking, social media and career strategies. She is a past President of the Metropolitan Black Bar Association (MBBA), New York’s largest black bar association.
Paula has previously served as the founder and CEO of PGE LLC, the inaugural Chief Diversity Officer at New York Law School, and as an attorney for the New York City Commission on Human Rights.
I met Paula at a conference in 2019 at which we were both speakers. I was so moved by her talk, that I went up to her, let her know that and asked if we could keep in touch. We started following each other on LinkedIn and I became an even bigger fan of hers. Learn more about why Paula is so awesome below.
Join me for the first get together of Women Who Wow this Thursday at 4pm ET. I’ll be joined by Renee Branson, and we will discuss resilience and how to
There’s an upside to the quarantine if you flip the script.
Be thankful for the slow moving minutes, the time at home with your family and pets, the creative space
Last year I had to move three times in three months. I hate change and hadn’t moved in many years prior to this. The initial move downtown was supposed to
The way you speak to yourself really matters. We can be our harshest critics.
I struggle with this every day.
In my head I hear things like “I’m a failure.
Yesterday I gave a presentation on how to appropriately market yourself and your firm during the COVID-19 pandemic to the ALA New York City chapter.
They thanked me by asking
Take care of yourself now more than ever as we face this unprecedented pandemic.
Women’s Health magazine put together this guide of free online mental health services, which I think