From the Boston Globe - March 6, 2009
Many of the 65 people gathered in the cafeteria of Oracle's Burlington field office to hear Diane Darling talk about networking are unemployed. For two hours, they listen attentively while Darling, a nationally known authority whose two books have been translated into seven languages, advises them on everything from icebreakers to Facebook to relationships.
What her audience does not know is that Darling could offer equally compelling counsel about another problem common during these troubled times: debt. The Federal Reserve reports that almost 6 percent of American credit card holders are behind on their payments, up from less than 4 percent two years ago, and Darling has hard-learned lessons to share.
Just hours before arriving at this meeting of the Boston Product Management Association, Darling took a reporter to the YWCA's Berkeley Residence in the South End, where for four months in 2006 Darling lived in a 9-by-16-foot room furnished with a twin bed, a small desk, and a three-drawer bureau. The shared bathroom was down the hall. It was the sixth of nine moves Darling has made, mostly to rented rooms in houses, since she gave up her one-bedroom apartment near Symphony Hall in 2003 in order to dig herself out of debt accumulated when her previous business failed.
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