Inside Every Woman: Using the 10 Strengths You Didn't Know You Had to Get the Career and Life You Want Now

277 Pages·2006·1 MB·English

by  Vickie L. Milazzo

INSIDE
EVERY
W
OMAN
Using the
10 Strengths
You Didn’t Know
You Had to Get
the Career
and Life
You Want Now
VICKIE L. MILAZZO, , ,
RN MSN JD
John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

INSIDE
EVERY
W
OMAN

INSIDE
EVERY
W
OMAN
Using the
10 Strengths
You Didn’t Know
You Had to Get
the Career
and Life
You Want Now
VICKIE L. MILAZZO, , ,
RN MSN JD
John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
Grateful acknowledgment is made to Th e New York Times for permission to reprint a quotation
from Kathy Murphy’s February 2, 2001 article, “Helping Nurses Move from Hospitals to Law
Offi ces.”
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To my mom for setting me on my voyage of discovery,
to all the women exploring their extraordinary potential
and to my husband Tom for loving the woman
inside and outside me.

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
Th e last thing I expected to bring home from a January speakers’
conference in Cancun, Mexico was this book contract; perhaps
sandy sneakers and sunburn, but not a July manuscript deadline.
Somehow, in that crowded convention hall, my husband Tom
found me refi lling my cup with healthy green tea. He took my
hand and led me away, telling me, “Skip your next session, there’s
someone you must meet.” Th at someone turned out to be
Matthew Holt, a patient, straight- talking editor at Wiley. After
only two conversations Matt trusted me to be just as forthright as
he is and believed in this book enough to share it with editor
Emily Conway, who saw my vision and made this book possible.
Of course, it all started well before that sunny winter day.
Everything in this book, everything I know and everything I love
about being a woman comes from the amazing women and men
in my life—starting with my mom and dad, Marise and Sal, my
grandmother Mama Pearl and my sister Karen. My best friends
Beth, Carol, Deb, Ellen, Jan, Missy and Nadia continue to teach
me the power of fusion. My great teachers and mentors, especially
my second mom, Blanche, all gave me models that I can only
aspire to emulate.
Th anks to the Fusion women, Blanche, Chris, Evie, Jan,
Leigh, Maggie, Martha and Susan, who inspired the Fusion and
inspire me to attain the impossible.
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I’d also like to thank the entire team at Vickie Milazzo Insti-
tute for their passion and for helping me create a business and
story to write about and the thousands of CLNC®s, the Certi-
fi ed Legal Nurse Consultants, who have inspired me to live my 5
Promises as I help them to live theirs.
Th anks to Howard Caesar, my minister at Unity Church, who
reminds me that life is good—all the time.
Th e following people helped me bring this book to life. Leigh
Owen and Chris Rogers—you gave time, patience and massive
amounts of red ink in teaching me everything you know about
bringing words to paper. You are not only terrifi c mentors but
awesome friends. I thank you both from the bottom of my heart.
Special thanks also to Evie Baron- Hernandez, my fi ery friend and
sister from another life; Dana Zera, who laughed with me along
the way; Lee F. Smith, who civilized my grammar barbarian ten-
dencies; Maggie Kattan- Arroyos and Adrian Arroyos, who helped
to bring visual form to the words; and especially Tom Ziemba,
who gives me daily inspiration, is always there when my com-
puter isn’t and helped me rediscover some of the stories I’d almost
forgotten.
Matt, next time we’re in Cancun the margaritas are on me.