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Overcome Your Fear of Success

Move past mistakes and make your career flourish

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Overcome Your Fear of Success

WHEN Tuesday, October 23, 6:30-9:30 pm

WHERE mediabistro.com, 494 Broadway (Spring & Broome), New York, NY 10012

DIRECTIONS subway directions, map

PRICE
$65 ($50 for )
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Course Details

We all fear that dreaded "next step." We dedicate so much time to a project that we fear life without it. What happens after we get the promotion, the book deal, or close the sale? We "accidentally" delete a finished document, forget an important appointment with an agent or editor, inadvertently send an incriminating email to the wrong person, or start a piece brilliantly and then inexplicably stall out. Why do we shoot ourselves in the foot just when things are going our way? Even more important, how can we stop?

In this seminar, you will learn:

  • To pinpoint the real conflicts behind your ambivalence about success
  • How to address these issues separately, so they don't affect your work
  • To identify triggers for unconscious self-sabotage, and modify your responses
  • How to develop the habit of triple-checking your output
  • The importance of cultivating a "success buddy" who will watch your back
  • How to recover from an embarrassing mistake or setback, and get back on course

Instructor Bio

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Susan O'Doherty
Susan O'Doherty's stories, essays, and poems have appeared in Eureka Literary Magazine, Northwest Review, Apalachee Review, Eclectica, Reflection's Edge, VerbSap, Literary Mama, Word Riot, Style & Sense, Phoebe, and the anthologies About What Was Lost: Twenty Writers on Miscarriage, Healing, and Hope, It's a Boy!, The Best of Carve, Volume VI, and Familiar. New stories will appear in Hospital Drive and in Sex for America, edited by Stephen Elliott. Her story Passing was chosen as the New York story for Ballyhoo Stories' ongoing Fifty States Project.

Susan is also a psychologist who specializes in addressing creative blocks. Her advice column for writers, The Doctor is In, appears on MJ Rose's blog, Buzz, Balls, and Hype. Her self-help book Getting Unstuck Without Coming Unglued: A Woman's Guide to Unblocking Creativity was recently published by Seal Press.

Testimonials


Susan's class should be right up there with Lamaze classes as a must for all expecting mothers who are also writers. She has armed me with practical advice so I can avoid shortchanging my family or my career - and the permission to let myself off the hook if I do. Now I'm looking forward to the birth of my child and the start of my new life! -- Lauren Snyder

"I wanted to hear what it was like to be a mother and writer and I ended up hearing what I needed to hear most. There's no way I can do it all, but now I have a few ideas about how I can get some help along the way." -- Susan Hodara

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