Life in the afterglow of TED-talk fame

"Holy cow."

For a moment, that’s pretty much all Susan Colantuono can say when she thinks about how her life has changed since a presentation she gave last November was posted on the TED Web site. In the three months since the video went up, the talk http://www.ted.com/talks/susan_colantuono_the_career_advice_you_probably_didn_t_get?language=en has been translated into 15 languages and viewed more than 1.7 million times. Colantuono has been bombarded with LinkedIn requests and invitations to speak at conferences. An agent reached out asking for her book proposal (it hadn’t been written yet).

"Holy cow," she says again.

By Sarah Kaplan

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