8 Fields to Pursue For a Career Post-Coronavirus
If you lost your job during the pandemic, you might consider switching fields. The workforce has changed, and continuing to cover your bills requires flexibility. It’s a challenging transition, but...
View Article21st Century Burnout
2008 was a dumpster fire. I was getting divorced smack dab in the middle of the global financial crisis. I’d built a company where I’d been living my professional dream for seven years. When my clients...
View ArticleFor Feminism, Basically
My initial understanding of feminism crystallized one fall day in my junior year of high school, in 1968, when I met Anne Sexton on the back porch of our house in Hanover, New Hampshire. My father had...
View Article10 Steps for Building the Resilience to Move from Trauma to Triumph
This year has brought more than its fair share of trauma—a global pandemic, quarantine, unexpected isolation, sudden deaths, massive job losses, a videotaped murder at the hands of a police officer, a...
View ArticleTech Stuff You Can Build with No Coding Knowledge
Do you think that it’s only coders who get to have all the fun? Do you think the only way to build cool tools is to slog through computer science MOOCs and learn-to-code classes? Are you afraid that...
View ArticleJob Search During The Covid-19 Pandemic
“I’m sorry, but we have to let you go.” Words that no working woman wants to hear…especially just starting out in her career…and especially during a pandemic! We all know that a job search can be...
View ArticleYou’re Writing? 3 Things All Writers Must Know
Well, actually, I’m writing… I find myself saying that a lot lately. In the past few months, writing has become an unexpected side hustle – one more thing to balance in an already busy life. I have...
View ArticleCould Your Co-worker Could Eventually Be Your New Best Friend?
As adults, our number one way for making friends is through our jobs. And yet, it’s those friendships that scare us the most as the stakes can feel so high should something go awry. Despite our...
View ArticleFour Tips to Grow Your Leadership Skills
What Makes a Great Leader? A great leader is someone who instills feelings of inspiration and motivation over fear and anxiety. This person does not seek authority, but instead, thrives off of...
View ArticleStory of a Hacker: Pursuing What I Love Made Me Grow a Second Layer of Skin
I started my career in programming 13 years ago. For the past three years, I have been a full-time hacker. However, I prefer calling myself a cybersecurity expert, as the word “hacker” is associated...
View ArticleBuilding Your New Environmentally Conscious Business
Amid the COVID-19 pandemic, we saw an incredible change in nature. Because humans weren’t driving, the air became cleaner. Because we weren’t boating, canals became clearer. Humanity’s impact on the...
View ArticleCovid-19 Look Like 19 Pounds? Here’s How to Lose Covid Weight Gain!
It’s not just you, lots of us have struggled with putting on the “Quarantine 19”—those unwanted pounds adding on while staying at home during the pandemic. Comfort foods, constant access to snacks, and...
View ArticleYes, There is Life After Divorce
Life after divorce is, at times, viewed as terrifying due mostly to the unknown of what is to come. Where will I live, and what will I do? Who will I become? Truthfully the only way to shake this fear...
View ArticleSixteen Tips To Make Your Life Better – TODAY
It’s been a pretty rough year, don’t you think? I surely do. There’s been unimaginable pressure on us as individuals, and as families. Here’s some tips from the professionals to make your life...
View Article“I Live On My Own In a 26′ Camper.”
I wake up. Not because of an alarm. Not because I successfully completed the five to six 90-minute sleep cycles my 22 year-old body usually needs. What stirred me from my (probably) mid-cycle sleep...
View Article10 Books to Read if You Feel Like Escaping 2020
With September finally here, it’s time to break out some stories that can make you feel as if you’re in another world. Here’s our picks of books to read that are full of self-discovery and help break...
View ArticleHow to Harness the Power of Positive Thinking During Your Job Search
I begin most resume writing projects with a get-to-know-you phone call with a prospective client. It is during this call that I always ask this question: “What are you doing now and what are you hoping...
View ArticleInsights about China I Gained as an American Journalist
Why should any of us look behind the next hill, or across the border, or across the ocean, into the warm living rooms of people who don’t look or think or talk as we do? In this time of pandemic,...
View ArticleFour Tips for Negotiating a Flexible Work Schedule
The U.S. is potentially on the verge of a mental health crisis with nearly half of Americans reporting the coronavirus crisis is harming their mental health. And as recently reported, a federal...
View ArticleSteps to a Successful Long-Term Remote Work Routine
When you imagined working from home, you likely thought of the many perks that come with it. You wouldn’t have to commute anymore, risk catching the seasonal office flu or spend your time packing...
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