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Don’t Hook Up With the Dude in the Next Cube:

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Don’t Hook Up With the Dude in the Next Cube:
200+Career Secrets for 20-Somethings
By Nancy Shenker

“…So here are five simple ways you can use social media to help you get hired:

 

  • Post an online resume, using one of the free blogging apps like WordPress
  • Buy the URL for your name and get a tech-savvy friend to point it to your online resume.
  • Learn to use LinkedIn. It’s where the power professionals hang out. Twitter can also be a great self-promotion and connecting tool. Direct-message people you want to meet or retween something interesting they tweeted. (Just don’t do it so often that you come across as a suck-up or creeper)
  • Set up a separate Facebook page or Pinterest Board for your professional self and connect with brands and individuals in your field of interest
  • Start a blog or comment on other people’s blogs in your “passion category.” Listing your own blog on your resume shows your hiring manager or boss you have initiative (and that you can write too).”

States Nancy: “As a mom, I sometimes lapsed into the role of “Boss Lady” at home, helping both my daughters construct their resumes, role-play interviews, search for both summer and permanent jobs, and deal with at-work drama. I decided to make some of my wisdom (and wit) available to young women all over the world by writing/publishing my book with co-author Lindsay Ellen Brown, a 20-something writer who has had her own winding and successful career path. Although the preceeding excerpt deals just with online communication, the book includes lots of tips for face-to-face networking, which is more important than ever before in the digital age!” Order “Don’t Hook Up With the Dude in the Next Cube” via www.nunumedia.com, Amazon.com, or via www.2booms.com.

Nancy A. Shenker, a Chappaqua resident, is Founder/CEO of theONswitch® marketing as well as nunu media, LLC. After a long corporate career (including MasterCard and Citibank), she followed her heart to the world of entrepreneurship, writing, blogging, and professional speaking/training. Her daughters are now 19 (a sophomore at Cornell who was gainfully employed last summer!) and 23 (a Business Analyst at comScore). Nancy can be reached at nancys@theonswitch.com

Book Excerpts: V is For Vagina

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V is For Vagina
By Dr. Alyssa Dweck

“Vaginas. I’ve seen thousands of them. As a full-time practicing OB/GYN for almost two decades, I’ve learned women have a complex relationship with their V’s. Whether curious, closed, excited, elated, tenacious, mortified, tearful, or fearful, shy, panicked, pugnacious, even petrified, women first and foremost all want to know one thing: Am I normal down there?

This essential question is the reason that I’m Facebooked frequently, cornered in the grocery store aisle, sidelined at the gym, questioned in cafes, and stopped on the street by women who have urgent issues about their vaginas. Their queries and concerns inspired me to write V is for Vagina. Rather than talk yeast infection in the produce aisle or labioplasty on the elliptical machine, I wanted to get the word out, to educate women in an easy-to-read, nonthreatening, down-to-earth way. I wanted to share medically sound and up-to-date information in a humorous, hip and relaxed style. And I wanted to have a little fun, too.

So, here it is, V Is for Vagina: a humorous but informative guide to the sometimes mysterious but always fascinating and amazing VAGINA.

Please read, laugh, and learn…”

Alyssa Dweck MS, MD, FACOG is a full time practicing OB/GYN at the Mount Kisco Medical Group. She is a graduate of Barnard College, Columbia University and Hahnemann University School of Medicine.  She is on the Health Advisory Board of Family Circle Magazine, contributed regularly to YM Magazine, and has been featured in Cosmopolitan, SheKnows.com, Shape.com,  parents.com, More.com and HealthRadio.

Meet Dr. Dweck for a 
May 10th “Straight V-Talk!”

Temple Beth El of Northern Westchester and Inside Chappaqua are proud to be co-sponsoring a talk and book signing by Dr. Dweck on Thursday, May 10th at 7pm at Temple Beth El. Come and meet Alyssa and have your questions answered! This is a free event open to the public. For more information, please contact communications@bethel.org.

Cabaret Comes to Chappaqua

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Photos by Amy Kerwin

On March 11, the four Chappaqua moms captured here (yes, including yours truly!) entertained diners in the beautiful Tap Room at Crabtree’s Kittle House with an array of songs choreographed by musical director Assaf Gleizner into a classic “Cabaret” show. The brainchild for the show was Janet Angier, owner and director of Music in Chappaqua.

To choreograph the show, Angier brought in Gleizner, a consummate jazz musician and pianist from Israel, who, among his many accomplishments, has been the musical producer of three albums of different genres such as Jazz and Funk, the musical director of a theatre group at Fordham University, and who you can also catch playing piano at the famous Birdland Jazz Club in the city.

Noted Angier: “Our Cabaret Night was a dream come true for me. Right now, we are looking forward to an exciting summer at our New York Rock Academy, the place for aspiring rock stars! In the future, we will continue our Cabaret Nights, and I hope all those who would love to have their own night in the spotlight will join us!” 
–Grace Bennett

Left to Right: Grace Bennett, Janet Angier, Stacey Boerner Cohen, Katy White, The Group, Assaf Gleizner

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Chappaqua Dreamin’

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Every mom harbors hopes and dreams so am delighted to bring you an issue in which hopes are realized and dreams come true. That has been very true for Kate Stone Lombardi…a few years ago, Kate mentioned to me that she was writing a book about mothers and sons, and would I be interested in filling out her online survey? I was delighted to share thoughts about raising a son, and looked forward to her book. Well, it’s out now, with Kate basking in glowing reviews, including my own! The talented Melani Lust captured our cover girl during a fun, springtime shoot.

For Andrea Klausner, participating in a volunteer medical mission to Haiti was a dream come true and with that experience came profound life lessons. Sarah Ellen Berman profiles Susan Carpenter, whose dream of becoming town supervisor has been realized, and also Lyndall Boal, a beloved social worker in the school district, who retires soon with many hopes fulfilled.

Kate and Me at Le Jardin du Roi

Seven busy, mom biz owners found time to send along their hopes and dreams which appear in Words and Wisdom from our Sponsors. We’re also proud to spotlight two Chappaqua mom “Rock” stars and sponsors, Marjorie Troob and Tanya Tochner. Check out book excerpts too from four mom authors– Elinor Griffith, Jane Genende, Dr. Alyssa Dweck and Nancy Shenker– whose writings convey hopes and dreams in multiple arenas.

Parents of children with special needs have the same hopes and dreams as any parents…for their children to grow up healthy and happy. The Devereux Learning Center in Millwood, as Jean Sheff reports, is an exceptionally valued resource toward that end. At Jodi’s Gym, as Michael Kohn reports, a gymnastics class has been formed for kids on the autism spectrum too. And there’s more…a Gotta Have Arts review of Cheryl Ehrlich’s “The Cupcake Conspiracy,” for example.

Newest IC contributor Audrey Mann Cronin shows off her keen sense of humor in an Inside Thoughts essay about, of all things, coffee yogurt! Audrey also offers a first “keeping up with the Clintons” column: Leader’s Digest.

Finally, Amy Kerwin snapped away at “Cabaret,” a Music in Chappaqua show I participated in with three other Chappaqua moms and friends: Janet Angier, Stacey Boerner Cohen and Katy White. Performing inside the Tap Room at Crabtree’s Kittle House was most positively dream like. Wishing all of you a dreamy Mother’s Day.

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“V is for Vagina” by Dr. Alyssa Dweck:

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Straight V-Talk, Followed by a Q&A!

When: Thursday, May 10 at 7 p.m.

Where: Temple Beth El
220 South Bedford Road, Chappaqua

Just in time for Mother’s Day!

Men, Women, Teens, All Welcome! Everything you always wanted to know… and then some… about your vagina. Yes, your vagina.

Temple Beth El of Northern Westchester and Inside Chappaqua Magazine are proud to be co-sponsoring a talk, following with a book signing by Dr. Alyssa Dweck, a Chappaqua resident and full time practicing OB/GYN at Mount Kisco Medical Center. Dr.Dweck is the author of the new “V is for Vagina: Your A-Z Guide to Periods, Piercings, Pleasures and so much more.” (Ulysses Press) Refreshments Served, Book Signing to Follow

Come meet Alyssa, and ask her, well, anything!

Step out for what is sure to be a memorable evening. For more information, contact communications@bethelnw.org