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Lily Lemontree
‘A New York State of Style’ with Ellen Lubin-Sherman (08/31)
“My style philosophy in a nutshell: Anything Goes…”
‘A New York State of Style’ with Ellen Lubin-Sherman (09/07)
“I love wearing black and white especially when I add a dollop of irreverent accessories…”
Yahoo.com
The Secrets to Your Success – How to Deal with a Younger Boss
FoxNews.com
Tips for college graduates entering a difficult job market
Huff Post Business
Ten Tips on How to Get the Entrepreneur X-Factor
To be successful as an entrepreneur, you don’t have to be a fabulous person, but it helps. Some people, and some entrepreneurs, have that something extra, like Simon Cowell is searching for on the X-Factor, that you can’t quite put your finger on. But the entrepreneurs that have “it” seem to be able to effortlessly get team members, investors, and customers to follow them anywhere.
I just finished a book on this subject, “The Essentials of Fabulous,” by Ellen Lubin-Sherman, who has been tracking fabulous people most of her life, as a writer and journalist. She identifies less than a dozen primary qualities for fabulous people in general, and I have honed and tuned these to ten that apply especially to entrepreneurs, in my experience: Read more…
TheThirdAge.com
Get The Job You Really Want, How Savvy Boomers Handle A Job Search
A savvy boomer who has been on hiatus whether by choice (e.g. raising a family) or a downsizing caused by the recession, must marshal all of her strategic skills to transition back to the workplace. Read more…
Senior Voice America
WLS Lifestyles
Fabulous, Curvy, and Rocking it
As a leadership/executive coach, I have the privilege of working with a remarkable group of accomplished people – people who either lead companies, want to move adhead or widen their social network. Click to read more on page 20-21…
newstimes.com
Eileen FitzGerald: Essentials to help with the upcoming job search
It’s likely to be an anemic job market that welcomes graduating college students — and even other adults — who leave their schools and homes this spring to find employment. Read more…
Over 50, Feeling 40
MORE VISIBLITY, MORE ELLEN, MORE FABULOUS!
Three Things Women Over 50 Should Do EVERY DAY:
1. Apply eye cream in the morning and in the evening. Morning eye creams should have SPF, but evening eye creams should not have SPF.
2. Look in the mirror and smile. Notice how your eyes light up. Notice how your cheekbones lift. Now go out there and smile at everyone!!
3. Exercise. Take the stairs instead of the elevator. Take a class at a local gym. Walk around the park listening to Frank Sinatra, Adele, and Stevie Wonder. SING OUT LOUD!
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Mad About the Madcaps
It could make one throw in the wireless mouse. What is the point of writing a book when you can hire someone to write it for you? What is the point of hiring a writer to write a book if your sole claim to fame is your hair worn in tendrils around your face? (A hairdo so popular it’s known in Japan as “the Tinsley” as in Tinsley Mortimer.) Read more…
Women for Hire
Book Bag: How To Reinvent Yourself After 50
Ellen Lubin-Sherman is the author of The Essentials of Fabulous: Because Whatever Doesn’t Work Here Anymore. Below she answers questions about reinventing yourself in the workplace after 50. Read more…
The Modern Mom
The Modern Mom’s Guide to Small Talk
Once upon a time you were fascinated by politics, intra-office warfare, tummy control slips, and how to dump a frenemy… and then, voila! You had a baby and you entered a new subculture where everyone talks about store-bought versus homemade baby food, the best playgroups and the alpha moms who stalk the playground making certain their child is constantly happy.
Savista Magazine
Beyond ‘Fabulous’ at 50
As a fan of The Sartorialist website, a compilation of photographs taken of people on the street that catch photographer Scott Schuman’s eye, I am particularly intrigued by the women of a certain age. These photographs capture women who are comfortable in their skin and living a life that’s fearlessly original and modern rather than cautious and expected. Read more…
Modern Mom
Modern Moms Deserve… Everything!
Mothers of the World, please unite with me on the subject of “no more deprivation.” Somewhere and somehow, someone told mothers they had to give up all the little luxuries that once made them happy and become self-abnegating sacrificial lambs. Truly, a colossal mistake because a long period of deprivation is not only dangerous to the soul but dangerous to the happiness of the family fold. Read more…
Fifty is the New Forty
Fabulous Fashion Tips from Ellen Lubin-Sherman
I refuse to understand why turning 50 (or 60 for that matter) should have a negative impact on the way you present yourself to the world. This is the time of your life when your foot is on the gas, not the brake. Read more…
Happygrrls Blog
Book review: The Essentials of Fabulous
I’m not going to lie to you—I wanted to read this book for the simple fact that I thought the title sounded kinda fun and kooky. As frivolous as it may be, it’s the truth! : ) Read more…
Forbes.com – ForbesWoman
Playing House In The Office: The Cookie Conundrum
There’s an ongoing debate in the ForbesWoman offices lately and it’s very, very sweet. When a woman brings homemade cookies into work, is she being nice or is she doing herself a terrible disservice? Read more…
The Miami Herald Blog: The Work/Life Balancing Act
Get your work life balance back on track
Whether you work for your company or yourself, work can be fulfilling or overwhelming. When it shifts to overwhelming, it’s time to make a change. But how? Read more…
Blog Talk Radio
FoxBusiness.com
Five Resolutions to Advance Your Career
If your new year’s resolutions included “get a new job” or “jump start your career,” it’s not something that can be done overnight like losing weight (just kidding). In an environment where many companies are tight on cash and still jittery over the economy, it’s important that employees make themselves standout and prove their worth. Read more…
(ABC) “Connecticut Style” WTNH-TV
Ellen Lubin-Sherman offers tips on becoming fabulously successful in life and her book, “The Essentials of Fabulous: Because Whatever Doesn’t Work Here Anymore.”
The Essentials of Fabulous: wtnh.com
CBS News
Five People to never friend from work
How many co-workers are you connected to on Facebook? A new survey by Millennial Branding found that the average Gen Y employee is connected to 16 office-mates on the popular social networking site. The interesting part? Only 36 percent officially listed their place of employment, while 80 percent noted where they had gone to school. Read more…
Newsday
Absolutely fabulous: How to keep a positive attitude and zest for life
Newsday Article PDF
The Sacramento Bee
Re-gifting, once verboten, now seen as frugality
Now that the frenzy of unwrapping is over, there undoubtedly are some things you’d never hope to see under the tree or next to the menorah: The striped sweater you’d never be caught dead in. The cloyingly scented soaps. The oddball appliance you definitely don’t need in your kitchen. Read more…
Fox News
My Springfield Mommy
The Essentials of Fabulous
Ellen Lubin-Sherman explains that you don’t need to be born with a silver spoon in your mouth to be truly fabulous in her new book The Essentials of Fabulous: Because Whatever Doesn’t Work Here Anymore (2010). Here is the synopsis of The Essentials of Fabulous from the back cover: Read more…
Patricia Grey
The Essentials of Fabulous
I just returned from a ‘fabulous’ six days in New York. It really is a special time at Christmas with all the lights and excitement…..more of my adventures in a later post. I just wanted to share with you a must-get book for Christmas gift giving. I have just placed an order for a dozen to have on hand for last minute gifts for all the fabulous girlfriends, guyfriends, relatives, and for all the fabulous people you haven’t met yet. Read more…
Classy Career Girl
Book Giveaway For the Fabulous and Passionate Career Girl
How do you stand out when you’re one of a million? Even more, how do you stay memorable, knowing you’re number twenty in a line of one hundred job applicants, or one of twenty in a line of candidates for promotion? It’s easy, proclaims Ellen Lubin-Sherman. Read more…
The Joan Hamburg Show – WOC/News Talk Radio (NYC)
ChicGalleria.com
Learn to be Fabulous: Start with the Essentials
In this economy and job market everyone is looking for that spark, the thing that will give him or her a leg up. Yet, the littlest things can make the biggest difference. THE ESSENTIALS OF FABULOUS: BECAUSE ‘WHATEVER’ DOESN’T WORK HERE ANYMORE is the go-to-guide for simple mentorship. Read more…
BookTrib.com
Writing About What You Don’t Know
Somewhere in the deep recesses of my over-clogged mind I remember hearing “write about what you know.” Reader, trust me: I don’t know too much. Read more…
Forbes.com
The 10 Worst Pieces Of ‘Good’ Career Advice
The old refrains are well known—you can be anything, do what you love, make yourself indispensable—but may not reveal the path to the top. Read more…
ModernMom.com
Why Every Mom Should Bring Out Her Inner Brio!
Brio. Merriam-Webster describes it as “vigor and vivacity.” A love of fun and humor with a wonderful presence. Who wouldn’t want to be a mother brimming with brio? Want to give it a try? Read more…
ModernMom.com
Practice A Passion For Living!
It’s the greatest challenge for anyone: how do you find and maintain your passion for living?
Passion is a Faberge egg – delicate, fragile, and beautiful to behold. Once you find your passion, you must guard it and not let anything harm it. If you’re looking for it, it’s an act of courage and tenacity, but once it’s within your grasp, your life will be changed and enhanced. Read more…
Forbes.com
The 10 Worst Stereotypes About Powerful Women
“I’ve been in this field for more than 30 years,” said co-anchor of Today Ann Curry. “I’ve heard a lot of stereotypes.”
Women continue climbing the rungs of power—building their ranks as heads of state, corporate leaders and media influencers—but their minority status means they still face harsh, limiting assessments based on their gender. Read more…
ModernMom.com
Are You Guilty Of Terrible “Mom Manners?”
We know them well, don’t we? The moms who can’t do their carpool duties because of a birthday, the moms who book a play date and then dash off to do some errand, and the mom who never invites your kids to play because her “house is under renovation.” Read more…
Huffington Post Business
Ten Tips on How to Get the Entrepreneur X-Factor
I just finished a book on this subject, “The Essentials of Fabulous,” by Ellen Lubin-Sherman, who has been tracking fabulous people most of her life, as a writer and journalist. She identifies less than a dozen primary qualities for fabulous people in general, and I have honed and tuned these to ten that apply especially to entrepreneurs, in my experience: Read more…
The Glass Hammer
Fabulous in the Boardroom: Owning it
Fabulous women who have risen to the top are a different breed. Their confidence is palpable. Their self-assurance is awe-inspiring. Their energy level is enervating, energizing and contagious. And their charisma–you can’t buy that kind of high-wattage aura. The secret: they’re fabulous. Read more…
Shine from Yahoo
How to Spot a Frenemy
The biggest danger is that you never know where a frenemy is lurking. One mid-level employee at a New York City-based marketing firm turned to her close friend at a company-wide meeting to criticize the boss’s address. “He’s an idiot,” she confided, “Everybody knows it.” Two days later she was greeted by boxes on her desk when she arrived at work and was told she was leaving the company. Her friend, it was revealed, was a direct line of communication to the boss, and used the criticism as a power play. “I was canned,” she says, but she points a finger at today’s cutthroat job market. Read more…
BookTrib.com
The Barbie and Ken Chronicles
About ten years ago, I had lunch with a friend who’s an actor. She asked if I would write a play that she could perform. I remember that lunch quite vividly. She served me two pieces of cheese, a cracker and a slice of apple. Some roasted beets, too. Not only was she an actor, she was also a terrible hostess. Read more…
Deborah Owens – The Wealth Coach
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Shine from Yahoo
10 Things You Should Never Say to Your Boss
It goes without saying that during a job interview you mind your Ps and Qs to ensure you don’t make the wrong impression. But once you’ve been hired, you can let loose at the office, right? Not so fast! Even after you’re gainfully employed, it’s important to consider the impact of everything you say—especially when it comes to the one person who can directly affect how quickly you’ll climb your company’s ladder: your boss. Read more…
Forbes.com
How To Spot A Frenemy At Work
On Sarah Cook’s, 28, first day as an account assistant job at Boston-based advertising agency Arnold, she was welcomed by a group of women who asked her to lunch, inquired after her personal life and offered themselves up for advice and support around the office. It wasn’t long before Cook was a member of the clique. Read more…
BookTrib.com
Hands Free Writing
Years ago, I knew a woman who had given birth to twins. She lived in Brooklyn, NY but to get her twins to nap, she would drive to Albany, NY for a special cream-filled donut. Then she would drive home. It took her six hours to travel back-and-forth but the twins slept and she needed the reprieve. And the donut was really tasty. Read more…
Women’s Day
5 Habits of Punctual People
Discover simple tricks to help you be on time, every time
Why is it that some people seem to show up on time, all the time, while you’re always rushing at the last minute no matter how hard you try? Although it may seem like punctual people possess some time-freezing superpower, they’ve actually just adopted simple habits that keep them one step ahead of the game. Read more…
SheKnows.com Give Away
In Case You Weren’t Born with It
The Essentials of Fabulous will guide you step by step to begin living life to its fullest potential and in great style. Read more…
Career-Intelligence.com
Dealing with Generational Differences in the Workplace
The workplace has always represented a melting pot of ages and life stages. It’s nothing new to find different types of employees in the workplace with conflicting communication styles, opposing values, and preferred ways of doing business working shoulder to shoulder. Read more…
BookTrib.com
Procrastinate With Panache
Most writers will admit that staring at a blank screen day after day is anxiety provoking. Should you feel writers’ avoidance, here are some ways to handle it with flair: Read more…
On Flair.com and Cincy Chic
Fashion Rules to Break!
Interview with Melissa Rivers and Ellen Lubin-Sherman
For the bigger fashion inquiries and stumbling blocks, I had the amazing fortune of interviewing Melissa Rivers of Fashion Police and The Celebrity Apprentice fame, author of Red Carpet Ready and best daily fashion deal decider (aka Editor in Chief) of Shoparatti.com, as well as Ellen Lubin-Sherman, executive coach for personal and product branding and author of The Essentials of Fabulous, Because Whatever Doesn’t Work Here Anymore. Read more from Flair.com…, or Read more on Cincy Chic…
Chicago Tribune
Getting past the receptionist
Desperate to get your kid educated, your appeal granted, your screenplay read? There are so many gatekeepers in life, so few open gates. Read more…
BookTrib.com
The Editrix and Me
The proverbial top drawer where all writers stuff their unfinished writing was full. The other drawers were also filled with short stories, screenplay ideas, hackneyed thinly-veiled novels, and memoirs of dysfunctional families (namely mine). I’ll admit it: I was a disorganized mess. I needed help. What I needed was a nanny and an outline. Read more…
BookTrib.com
The Second Floor Bathroom’s Epiphany
Budding writers can’t help but be influenced by the writers they grew up with. The first time I read a poem by e.e. cummings, I knew I had to change my signature. I loved the lower case and thought it was tres chic. Read more…
Health and Well Being with Pat Farnack
BLACK BAG Live: Career Talk Radio with Heidi Ehlers
Morning Show with Shelley Irwin
BookTrib.com
Joan Didion Admits She Reads ‘The National Enquirer’
Are you shocked?
I certainly was when I read that. Joan Didion? She’s an icon. Brilliant writer, insightful observer, fearlessly honest – certainly not the type of person who would care “who has the best bikini body?” Read more…
BookTrib.com
Asleep at the Wheel
The first mistake was asking a friend who was a well-known agent to look at some of my writing. Read more…
The Green Room
Meet Ellen Lubin-Sherman, The Queen of Fabulous
I was on a trans-continental flight with my mother and two young sons when I first encountered the book. I had not brought any reading material with me, painstakingly aware that when traveling with two lads under 5, I would likely spend the six hours onboard entertaining them and not me. Much to my delight, they were transfixed by their movie, leaving me elated (yet somewhat bummed by my own lack of airplane entertainment). Then, my mom casually handed me a book she had just finished. “The Essentials of Fabulous” by Ellen Lubin-Sherman. I devoured every word. Read more…
glo.com (msn.com)
Gotta Have it: 8/11: Fab, Not Drab
“No one is born fabulous,” say Ellen Lubin-Sherman, author of a new guide on developing your fabulosity. Read more…
BookTrib.com
The Essentials of Fabulous
Fabulous rose out of a semi-attached brownstone in Brooklyn. It didn’t come from famous relatives or a cushy trust fund. Fabulous came from paying attention. Read more…
NBC Philadelphia – “The 10! Show”
Simple Secrets to Fabulous
The Essentials of Fabulous author Ellen Lubin-Sherman shares her secrets for being truly fabulous. If the video isn’t loading below, click here.
Forbes – Work in Progress
The Pursuit of Fabulous: Your Best Foot Forward - Part Two
First impressions are everything. We make snap judgments of people within the first five seconds of meeting them which is why controlling your image is critically important. Did we say “Good morning” when we walked into the office? Or just grumble under our breath? Read more…
Forbes – Work in Progress
Gen Y and the Pursuit of Fabulous – Part One
Executive coach and consultant on all that is fabulous Ellen Lubin-Sherman has created a guide to give us the keys we need to get beyond the “whatever” life and move into the fabulous life. I had the pleasure to correspond with Ellen and wanted to share her best advice for Gen Y. Read more…
Annabel Manners
No one is born fabulous. You have to decide to do it — to transform yourself into one of those amazing creatures that infiltrate our lives and ignite our dreams with their swagger, energy, pizazz, and soigné charm.
Such is the premise of The Essentials of Fabulous, a new book by Ellen Lubin-Sherman. At first glance, it might seem like one of a thousand manuals instructing women on the finer points of glamor and style. Au contraire. Read more…
Lily Lemontree
On the Shelf…February’s Reading List
Okay I know a little late but better late than never I always say. A little ambitious seeing that the month of February is almost over but I have set aside some quiet reading time and am very anxious to dig into these. Reviews to follow of course! Read more…
Colour Me Happy
10 Things I’m taking to the Bloggers Conference in LA
Well my lovelies, I’m off to the Design Bloggers Conference at the Sofitel in LA. I am looking forward to a few days of fun and meeting so many bloggers/friends for the first time, I’m very excited! Here is what I’m bringing: Read more…
High Snobette
When I first read the title of this book, I figured that it would be another self help of the fake-it-til-you-make-it kind , or think you’re better than everyone, be aggressive, see opportunities to get yourself ahead etc. How far was I from the truth! In a beautiful book (seriously the pages have this soft texture illustrated with watercolors by Susan Sugar, and sets of single bright color pages of notes in between), Ellen Lubin-Sherman illustrates being fabulous as that genuine, warmth you feel when you have encountered something or someone amazing: Read more