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How to Begin Your Career as an Independent Author
How do I begin a career as an independent author? There are probably as many different ways to answer that question as there are independent authors. We are all unique individuals, coming from...
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Why Everyone Needs a Side Hustle and 4 Ways To Create It
Many people are dissatisfied with what they earn, but find the prospect of leaving their job to find a better paying one exhausting. Margie Hulse, a Wealth Creators Anonymous facilitator for Access...
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How to Budget Your Time for the Self-Care You Need
Balancing a busy career with your own personal life is an ongoing challenge, and the pressure to perform at your best, take on big projects, and increase your productivity at work can leave you feeling...
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Are You Stressed Out? So is Everyone Else!
Do you feel stressed out more often than not? If so, you’re not alone. Millennial burnout, stemming from chronic, mismanaged stress, has been a hot topic this year and been talked about everywhere from...
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The Power of Saying No – Why You Should Say it More Often
Historically, I’ve always been a yes woman. I’ve said yes to a year abroad in Provence aged 19, yes to living in Madrid and Santiago in my 20s, yes to risk-taking, challenge and a life of new...
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Social Media and Your Employer – Too Much Intrusion?
From Facebook, Twitter and Instagram to Snapchat and LinkedIn, each platform has its own purpose and intention depending on the user. But how much should someone’s personal social media impact their...
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5 Tips on How to Effectively Communicate with Your Manager
Let’s face it. When it comes to open communication in the workplace, there is a very thin line between hired and fired. Often times women of color are seen as overly aggressive when trying to...
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Career Change – 5 Signs That it May Be More Than Just A Midlife Crisis
Fancy sports cars. Expensive gym memberships. Messy divorces. A midlife crisis usually gets a bad rap for impulsive decisions like these. But one of the controversial midlife crisis decisions is...
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Four Ways To Save Time Cleaning Your House
There are a few of us who actually enjoy cleaning house. To them, I say “I’ve got fresh coffee and a mop ready for you, come on over!” For most of us, though, house cleaning is a necessary evil. We...
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Ten things to do after work…besides more work
Yes, there is life after work. Workdays are super-intense. Ten, twelve, even fourteen hours of go! Go! Go! You can feel great at the end of the day, knowing that you have made a difference. And you get...
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Finding Your Dream Job In Today’s Job Market
It’s a hard-enough task figuring out what you want to do in life. Once you’ve done that soul searching, there’s a lot that goes into pursuing the career path you’ve chosen. Not least the (seemingly...
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Lessons Learned From 60 Countries of Travel
From breaking down in Bolivia to falling off a bike in Bora Bora, author Kia Abdullah has seen and done it all. She’s hiked to the rim of an active volcano in the remote islands of Vanuatu, traversed...
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Professional Advancement Tips for Young Career Professionals
Beginning your career can be both exciting and terrifying at the same time. While most people develop an idea of the profession they’d like to pursue at an early age, once they’ve met the reality of...
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The Female Tax: Women Are Paying More For Health Services
Ending the gender pay gap is one of the most fundamental labour concerns of our time. The consequences of the gender pay gap are far-reaching, from complex issues like poverty and inequality to...
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Forget Your Job Title. Here Are 4 Reasons You Are in Sales and it’s a Good...
A firefighter, a professor, a computer repair technician and a lawyer are having dinner together. Which one is the salesperson? None, right? One is in the business of saving lives; another teaches; one...
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Career, Mother, and Wife? Can You Have it All?
I was 34 years old, a lucky chief cook and bottle washer, chauffeur, social planner, wife and mother with a loving husband who paid the bills for our happy family of four in west L.A. My diploma from...
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7 Steps to Reclaiming Your Voice and Saying What You Want.
In China, it is seen as a good thing for a female to appear shy, modest, and subtle in how you communicate. The way I would normally say ‘hello’ was I would look and smile – and never actually say...
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Every Female Entrepreneur Should Be Doing These 3 Things
Work-life balance—it’s the ever-elusive goal so many of us are constantly trying to achieve. According to Forbes, many women who make the leap into entrepreneurship do so in part because they’re...
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How Long-Term Planning Allows for Smoother Seasonal Transitions at Work
As summer comes to an end, many people feel a little drained. This happens during almost every seasonal change. With a new season comes new events and more planning, and every person goes through...
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Leaving Your Job? Safeguard Your Reputation!
Leave a strong reputation behind People leave jobs for many reasons: to get a better salary. To take the next career step. To get away from a terrible boss (#1 reason!). Whatever the reason, when you...
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