Phyllis Lee

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Goodbye 2020, Hello 2021

Happy New Year! When the pandemic hit NYC in March, I naively thought it would be over by June, but here we are, wrapping up the year still in quarantine. On paper, 2020 was a big year for me, especially my career. COVID was a huge tailwind for ...
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26 Years Young

    Wow, I’m already 26!   I entered into the new year of my life feeling great. Indoor dining opened a week before my birthday, I closed a high profile restructuring deal, and most importantly, I took the weekend off ...
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10 Lessons from Year 3 in the Real World

As I begin the fourth year of my career, I thought I would keep up my series of real world lessons. The year 1 and year 2 lessons were proven useful again this past year, but below are the 10 points that I want to highlight in this ...
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2.5 Months of Quarantine

  Hello! I hope everyone is staying safe and managing to stay sane during quarantine. I am… hanging in there. I finished work this Friday at 11:30pm, got into bed but my mind was too awake, so I thought I would write a post about my ...
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Another New Year…

When I was in elementary school, my teachers made the students write the heading on the top left corner of our papers, consisting of name, subject and the date, which had to be spelled out completely. I always hated it when months changed, ...
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My Fitness Guide

As most people in my social circle know, I embarked on a fitness journey in winter 2018, right after Thanksgiving to be exact. I am happy to say that I have made it through a year and feel like I am in a “steady state” in terms ...
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