A career coach’s world without borders
In a rented conference room near Emperor Hadrian’s tomb, career coach Megan Fitzgerald greets two regular clients. Though all three are American expatriates, there’s a good deal of Mediterranean-style cheek kissing. Then it’s down to business on this bright February morning. Physician and first-time author Brian Rothbart, 65, and his wife, Linda Penzabene, 55, are unhappy about the dust jacket of their book, Forever Free From Chronic Pain. The colors are too dark, they fret.
"Well, it’s close," soothes Fitzgerald, 38, a peppy New York City-born blonde. "Sometimes you’ve just got to embrace the 80% that works."
The couple turned to Fitzgerald after they relocated to Rome, where a local medical institute had offered Rothbart a research post. Before they signed on with Fitzgerald, Rothbart’s Web site offered 450 pages of highly technical articles chronicling his 40-year search for a drug-free cure for chronic pain. Fitzgerald persuaded him to streamline his message and bypass the medical establishment. In the 2
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