@Sara – totally get it. You wind up with flexibility, but you had to work hard to get there. I had a conversation recently with a woman at a major think tank (she may read this, so hi!) and she remarked how strange it was that there were so few women with that job, given that it is 100 percent flexible. But of course the issue is she had to become a thought leader to get the job, with all the publishing, research, speaking, TV punditry etc. required to get that designation. That is all difficult to do, and may not provide work/life balance in the process.

@Kae – I have a spreadsheet with all the episode titles, descriptions, and air dates. I know I’ve covered similar broad topics many times (like, say, planning) but I try to change the angle at least a little. And yep, I do search!

@Elisabeth – we had a heat wave here this week (well, for October) so it was about the same in Orlando as in Philly!

I’ve only been to Florida once in my life – the dead of winter 2010 – and it was FREEZING. It was actually warmer back home in Eastern Canada than Florida and when we got back home there were signs in the grocery store about how there was a big fruit shortage because of a freak deep freeze in Florida and I was like: “Yup. I know all about that…”