Monika Mitchell

I was cruising the web recently and came upon a video that truly shocked me: a promotional video from Rebecca Grado & Christy Whitman, the respective "therapist and lifecoach" authors of Taming your Alpha Bitch: How to be Fierce and Feminine (and Get Everything You Want!). The authors...

A rather caustic editorial from Bloomberg News' nameless "editors" mocked Goldman Sachs defector, Greg Smith, in fake bully-on-the-playground bravura. Just like blogging commentators, it's easy to be brave when your identity is hidden. It is even easier to be a bully when you can take a few swings...

This week marks a turning point for Goldman Sachs and the rest of the investment banking industry. Somehow the king of kingmakers, Goldman Sachs, couldn't buy one if its very own star's silence. The truth is that the astonishingly brave op-ed piece by the former head of Goldman...

Last week, I found myself on Manhattan's West Side in an exquisitely decorated loft owned by Winds of Change philanthropist Shamaya Gilo. Sixty powerhouse women were gathered together for wine and cheese and to strategize about how to support women's leadership through cold-hard cash. The loft was filled...

What is "slow food" you might ask? It is the organic and eco-friendly answer to fast food. Whatever McDonald's or Taco Bell might be to you -- chemically altered, fat infused, artery hardening, and diabetes-causing edible trash -- "slow food" is the opposite. The healthy alternative to the nation's carcinogenic...

They may be rich, but they're not stupid...

Today's billionaires are feeling the heat. This past week, seventy billionaires made their way to the Swiss mega-resort town of Davos to strategize the 2012 global economy. Every year at this time, the moneyed elite take their place at the top of...

One of the holiest holiday season's of the year is upon us and consumers are out waging their war on Christmas. We are told to shop, shop, shop and keep the American economy rolling! Most of us, however, are holding onto our money as much as possible these days. The...

Traders are unique among Wall Street professionals. They are a restless bunch always in search of the next thrill. The people who climb to the top of Mt. Everest, jump out of planes, engage in hardcore sports or high stakes poker have lots in common with traders, or they might...

As the Occupy Wall Street movement continues to throw light on the economic hardship of the 99%, the United States Federal Reserve continues to do its part to widen the economic gap between Wall Street and Main Street. The new plan is to purchase $545 billion worth...

All hell broke loose in New York last week when Occupy Wall Street protestors took to the streets to demand their piece of the pie. Rage, conflict and high emotions marked the mood for protestors who were forced in the early morning hours to remove their tent city from Zuccotti...

"Thank God for young people," gushed an ebullient Michael Moore to the mostly undergrad crowd at a recent New School event in New York called "Occupy Anywhere." Moore, in all his t-shirted, baseball capped, beer bellied glory, waxed rhapsodic over the Occupy movement that is taking America by storm.

Moore...

Only a few short years ago, investment banking was the hottest career of hot finance careers. Lately, Wall Street in general is suffering a major identity crisis. Pilloried as the bane of our economic existence, the financial industry is feeling the heat. At a recent lecture on corporate responsibility, the...

To paraphrase the late Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan, "[Capitalism] may not be a perfect system, but show me a better one." To date, there isn't one. But in the wake of the widening economic inequity in America and around the world, the old rules of capitalism are long past due...

It's not about anarchy. It's not about ending capitalism. It's not about the rich versus the poor. It's not even about Wall Street.

The small and courageous group of protestors in downtown New York's Zuccotti Park is fighting for something really simple -- something most of us in America have...

Lately, there has been a fast-growing movement to declare "Wall Street" the enemy of the people. We arrived at this critical point of public rage very simply because the 20th century model of "take the money and run" went off a cliff three years ago resulting in serious unintended consequences...

They are mad as hell and not going to take it anymore. Many in the financial industry and corporate world seem to be mystified as to what "they" -- the "Occupy Wall Street" squatters in Zuccotti Park downtown New York -- are protesting. At the World Business Forum 2011, a...

Last week after spending three life-changing days at the Clinton Global Initiative (CGI), I came away with a profound sense of hope, inspired by all the participants present and by no less than President Clinton himself.

Normally at this time every fall, as a member of an NGO...

You might think a nine year old girl is too young to be married, but in some parts of the world, this is the common age of betrothal. The odds are that for ten million of the world's adolescent and teenage girls one in three girls marry before age 18...