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Published on: 2/19/2001
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Michelle Goguen Hurley
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Michelle Goguen Hurley Goguen & Associates
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As Lotus built more focus around it's SmartSuite offering, Michelle became PR manager for the Suite, then soon after that it was on to managing PR for the entire desktop products division.Corporate life was going just fine for Michelle.Moving up, getting recognized for her hard work and commitment, good personal and professional connections, working for a company she enjoyed.What else was there?There was something else, but she wasn't quite sure what it was.She had made a full commitment to her professional life and enjoyed the unique environment offered by Lotus, but she felt it was time to take a break and explore this feeling that something was missing.She soon discovered it was a question of discovering a different balance among her work and all her other interests.
She had inspired three of her friends to take some personal time off.Now she began to feel that she should be following her own good advice.In mid-transfer from Atlanta to Cambridge in the fall of 1995 she told Rich Eckel that she was leaving Lotus.Rich was a bit surprised to say the least.Within a few months Michelle sold her house and all but the essentials, loaded what was left into a UHaul and headed west to Bend, Oregon with Jeff Hurley, a civil engineer she met at the infamous (in a good way) Sevens bar on Charles Street in Boston.Taking a year off was the plan, but she got itchy after five or six months and told herself she'd take the next good opportunity that found her in the spectacular Oregon wilderness.
Networks at work.The first opportunity presented itself in the forms of ex-Lotus PR colleagues Paul Santinelli and Allison Parker.They enlisted her as PR consultant for Narrative Communications.Still loving the freedom, she began by committing 40 hours of consulting time a month.
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Jeff and Michelle, now Goguen Hurley without a hyphen, got hitched (what else do you call an Oregon wedding, after all) last July smack in a verdant mountain setting with hay bales as an altar.Jeff is also part of the business team running back-office administration and consultation.Michelle has her ideal life.She has struck that balance of personal and professional that works.Michelle likes to say that you've got use your fun tickets when you can.She's using hers now.
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Michelle Goguen Hurley
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