The following is an excerpt from All Things At Once by Mika Brzezinski (published by Weinstein Books, January 5, 2010).

I'd been fired by CBS News in a semipublic way, and as the months went by, there was a perception that I was damaged goods. Mostly, what I didn't have...

Being unemployed has so many real and palpable ramifications but there are also psychological side effects which you can only understand if you've truly lived through it.

When you walk out the door, its over. No cell phone. No email address. Nothing.

Stripped of your link to the...

In my job, as co-host of Morning Joe on MSNBC and The Joe Scarborough Show on WABC radio, there are usually several days a week that are endless.

Absolutely endless.

This is not a complaint. I love the job. I am extremely lucky to have a job and thank God...

For many women, going back to work a few months after having a baby is overwhelming and unmanageable.

As strange as it may seem, things get even more difficult for a working mom after the second and third baby arrive. By that time, the romance of being a modern "superwoman"...

Last week I let you know my thoughts on how children could fit into the lives of the professional woman.

Some were not amused.

"Not only is your post embarrassingly stupid," began one tweet, "it's offensive to anyone who believes in reproductive choice"

Thank God the many on twitter...

When I speak to young women about life lessons and TV career choices, I try to check off the basics of the business for them.

First, you have to love what you do.

Second, you have to be willing to start at the bottom and linger there until your...

I was fired at the pinnacle of my career, on my 39th birthday. And in the year that followed, I learned that there are many psychological phases of being "let go."

By 38, I had a shiny new contract as the anchor of the Sunday...