Phyllis Cohen | Women's Voices For Change

Rainy Days and Layoffs—This Too Shall Pass

By Phyllis Cohen

Faith and fear over your job search cannot occupy the same space. Since the day has only 24 hours, don’t waste this valuable real estate.

Money & Careers

Hitting the Fall Job Market: Make Yourself Memorable

By Phyllis Cohen

You have to rise above the typical noise that the throngs of job hunters make to get noticed.

Money & Careers

Career Networking for the Introverted

By Phyllis Cohen

Networking can be a struggle whether you’re a shrinking violet or the life of the party. But before you make that first networking step, it’s crucial to know the two most important rules about why people do or do not get hired in the first place.

Money & Careers

Channeling Your Career Narcissism

By Phyllis Cohen

There’s a fine line between disruptive narcissism at work that breeds distrust, and healthy narcissism that spawns the creation of ideas and productivity.

Money & Careers

Asking for More on the Job

By Phyllis Cohen

More money, alternative work arrangements or leadership opportunities on the job are not entitlements that happen by themselves.

Lifestyle

The Empty Nest . . . And Other Myths of Rightsizing

By Phyllis Cohen

My empty nest is simply the next stage of our lives, not a syndrome that requires therapy or a cure.

Lifestyle

Career Mojo, Lost and Found: Rightsizing at Work

By Phyllis Cohen

The trade-off of rightsizing my job is the sheer uncertainty of it, but really, is any choice infallible in the world of work?

Travel

Road Trip, Unleashed — On Sacred Ground

By Phyllis Cohen

We approached Kayenta before sunset. Was it a trick of light that turned the desert sand to red? When soul-stirring red buttes appeared out of nowhere, I decided this must be what it looks like on Mars.

Travel

Road Trip, Unleashed—The Land of Enchantment

By Phyllis Cohen

My travel experiences in New Mexico would become charmed currency that I could use once I returned home to Pennsylvania. I could jangle them like rare gold coins. New Mexico filled my pockets with these lovely things.

Travel

Road Trip, Unleashed—A Ruff Start

By Phyllis Cohen

I knew that this road trip would be an exercise in patience and compromise, not exactly my own or my husband’s greatest strengths, but nevertheless resources we’d be forced to muster for the next two weeks.

Travel

Road Trip…Unleashed: Hitting the Road After All These Years

By Phyllis Cohen

I didn’t realize how badly I’d been bitten by wanderlust, until on the way to the supermarket one Saturday, my husband brought up our son’s upcoming vacation to China. A range of emotions came over me. Mostly, I was jealous.