This blog was originally published on CNBC Bullish on Books Blog by Gloria McDonough-Taub. It has been update to reflect the current times. Every once in a while, I meet with an author who really gets me fired up about their book. Nancy Solomon is the author of Impact!: What Every Woman Needs to Know to Go From Invisible to Invincible. WAIT! —It's for you guys, too. I mean, who doesn't want to make an impact; who doesn't want their life to count, who doesn't want to make an i

There are few things in life that are mandatory. Setting boundaries is one of them. I recently brought in a branding expert to advise me on updating our company brand, from A to Z. She’d helped me with my book, Impact!, and I was looking forward to her clarity, perspective and expertise. After one of our calls I realized that I was confused on a specific area we had reviewed together. Her boundaries for her work, and our agreement, precluded me from reaching out in between ou

Sometime during the interminable Presidential campaign of 2016, a client said to me, aghast, “Seriously, you’re pro-choice? How can that be? You’re the mom of two adopted kids!” She thought these two things were mutually exclusive; for me they most definitely were not. It was the first time I’d ever felt like an axe murderer. When her flushed face faded back to norm, I explained that just because I’m pro-choice does NOT automatically default me to a pro-abortion position: The