We are thrilled to be kicking off a new series highlighting “lives well designed” in our community. Our goal is to showcase a wide variety of examples of ways to design your life. The DYL team is continuously impressed by...
After attending the DYL for Women workshop in San Francisco in November 2018, Holly Hirshfield was motivated to share her experience. Here she shares what she learned, in her own words: I came to Designing Your Life for Women to...
Thanks to the continued enthusiasm of our coaching community, we are excited to announce our third Coaching Certification Program! It will be held in the Presidio neighborhood of San Francisco March 2nd-3rd. Breakfast is at 8:00am Saturday with an 8:30am...
When Jacqueline Kennedy attended the Designing Your Life for Women Workshop, she was two months into a one-year sabbatical-style career break she had taken to focus on her daughter who was in her last year of high school. Having made...
A few weeks after joining us at a DYL for Women workshop, Anu Rao of Cambridge, Massachusetts shared this reflection on her DYL experience... "Last month I joined 50 women at the DYL for Women workshop in New York, where...
Mary Charles read Designing Your Life, and began doing the exercises on her own in service of designing the next phase of her life and career. She found mindmapping particularly helpful and in fact breaks out the pirate cocktail napkin example...
Big thanks to our new community members, Alyssa and Sarah for their feature of Designing Your Life on their blog, The Juggle! The pair had many interesting things to say about their experiences reading the book. They both got the...
Exciting Update Debbie's podcast is now launched! To learn more and subscribe go to http://debbieweil.com/podcast Both Debbie Weil and her husband Sam Harrington dreamt of taking a gap year when they were eighteen, but their parents put the kibosh on the idea....
Donatella Caggiano was born in Buonalbergo, a small town in the south of Italy, grew up in the North, and went to college at Luigi Bocconi university in Milan. She started working in the corporate world right after graduating from University....
One outcome of the retreat is the conviction that community and radical collaboration are hugely helpful as women support each other in making changes in their lives. Another is the realization that we need that community to continue to hold...