Three years ago today, I walked across the stage at Temple University in my cap and gown, happily accepted my hard-earned diploma and closed one chapter of my life for an exciting new one. Some days I feel like I graduated from college yesterday, and other days, it feels like an entire lifetime ago. On that …

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Start your week right! Every Sunday I post my favorite links from around the web and share my goals for the upcoming week. Links On Careers: A Boss’s Open Letter to Workers Who Want to Quit: If you’ve ever quit a job, you know that it’s no easy task, but there’s certainly a graceful way …

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Broad Street Run, round two: CONQUERED. Before I break down my 2013 race experience, I want to start by thanking and praising the city of Philadelphia, the Philadelphia Police Department and the team behind the Independence Blue Cross Broad Street Run for an incredibly safe and well-organized race. In light of what happened in Boston, not …

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Start your week right! Every Sunday I post my favorite links from around the web and share my goals for the upcoming week. Links On Careers: How to Answer “Where Do You See Yourself in Five Years?”: That dreaded interview question…Careers expert Alison Green gives job candidates a different way to think of answering this …

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Spring is off to a great start! April was an awesome month filled with lots of fun activities and from the looks of it, May is shaping up to be even more exciting! Each month, I share three things I accomplished in the previous month and preview three things I’m excited about or hoping to accomplish …

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*UPDATED FOR 2015!* Three years ago, I published a blog post detailing my journey to the Broad Street Run, Philadelphia’s iconic race and the largest 10 mile road race in the country. I wrote: I’m doing the Broad Street Run for the girl who could barely make it through the mandatory mile run in high school. …

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