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We Met, Planned, and Went

October 18, 2012 4 Comments »

Meet Plan Go NYC

1 idea – A Career Break on every resume 3 people – Michael Bontempi, Michaela Potter, Sherry Ott 10 hosts around the country 25 sponsors 111 panelists 312 bottles of Estrella Spanish Beer in NYC 935 Attendees Infinite happiness that comes from doing something that is so core to your belief systems and makes your […]

Overcoming Fear and Getting What you Want

October 11, 2012 16 Comments »

I’m tired of it taunting me – it’s as if Facebook is the wicked witch in Snow White telling me to eat the apple. Just take a bite she says…. Facebook has been presenting the apple of Andrew McCarthy to me yet again in the “Friend Suggestion” column. It always throws me a bit since […]

Travel Excuses People Use to Not Travel

September 27, 2012 29 Comments »

annapurna circuit

For all of the ‘I can’t travel excuses’ you make – I can offer you a counterargument and examples of people who have shattered those excuses and have fought through their fears. Definition of ex·cuse  /ikˈskyo͞oz/: A reason or explanation put forward to defend or justify a fault. Or if I put it in my […]

Running Into My Past

September 18, 2012 9 Comments »

runners in central park

I was breathing heavy, lumbering along in the thick August air of NYC, I felt like every time my tennis shoe hit the ground it was heavy, as if I was a horse carrying a large load. And then they ran by – light, airy gazelles in the form of NYC runners. A pack of […]

Learn how to Travel Like Me – Meet, Plan, Go!

September 6, 2012 1 Comment »

career break

I can see it in their body language; their crinkled forehead is the first sign. They search and stammer for words, they shuffle their feet – all representing the indecision that is flowing through them as they try to determine if it’s appropriate to ask the question they really want to ask me. I know […]

Postcard from New York City

August 6, 2012 4 Comments »

After six years, I’m still never excited to come back to my home country. I wish I understood why I have such trouble coming back – but after many returns I still don’t understand it – all I know is that my current 5 month journey went way too fast and I can hardly believe […]

How to Take a Career Break

March 26, 2012 8 Comments »

How can you do what I did? If you read my website, subscribe to me on Facebook or follow me on Twitter,  then I’m guessing that this is the question that you are dying to get an answer to. Right?  I’ve spent years trying to help people get answers to this question.  I have even […]

Saying “I do” to Travel

October 20, 2011 13 Comments »

travel addict

I’ve never been married, but I can only imagine that planning and running an event like Meet Plan Go is similar to planning a wedding…minus the big bill at the end and the white dress. However there was music, alcohol, 1250 guests, months and months of planning, stress, anxiety, excitement, last minutes panic, and finally […]

The Career Break Tipping Point

June 2, 2011 11 Comments »

Tipping point

Recently I was hunting through my outbox in Yahoo looking for a particular email and I came across this email that I sent to a reader about 2 years ago.  I started reading it again and wondered to myself if I had ever shared this story before on my site.  My friend Amy who is […]

Why Did I Take a Career Break?

July 9, 2006 No Comments »

career break reasons

The most common question people ask me is “Why?”. What was your reason for a career break?  I think most people are expecting to hear something about a major life entanglement, health reason, or lost love; but none of these things plagued me when I decided to leave my corporate job in 2006 for a […]