Eileen McDonnell, the Chairman & CEO of Penn Mutual Life Insurance Company, discusses her Irish heritage, breaking the glass ceiling, and the way forward.
When parents tell their children that they can do anything, it’s all too often taken with too many grains of salt. But Eileen McDonnell believed her parents. She had no reason not to. And it served her well. When she was applying for a vice president job, a position held by no other women in the company, she brushed off people citing her gender as a reason she wouldn’t get it, telling them that it was irrelevant. They may as well have been saying she was unqualified because she had had chicken for dinner the night before. She knew she could do the job, and that was the only qualification that mattered.
I would buy myself and all my family members new houses, lottery hopeful Chrissy Wilk said. We would like to buy a big motor home, added Robert Fellin, who also bought a ticket.
Attorney Margie Karl of Berea knows just what it is like, because some of her clients have hit big and she went with them to pick up their winnings. Going in.you saw all the pictures and the big checks and everything hanging up, Karl remembered.
Their identities are secret, while their money is safe in private accounts. One is called Mom’s Birthday Trust. [A] couple of the other ones I had were something related to a birthday or, like, a certain date, Karl said.