Battling Career Fear: How to Conquer Despair, Doubt, and Defeat
Let’s just go ahead and say it: there’s nothing quite like a global pandemic to strike fear in the hearts of even the most secure female career professional. Whether you’ve just graduated from...
View ArticleFocused and Diffuse Thinking: Why Your Brain Needs a Day Off
What a day. I can’t think. I can’t write. Even choosing something to watch on TV feels like a major effort. Playing solitaire on my phone is about all I can handle. Have you had days like this? I don’t...
View ArticleForget Balance. You Need a Work-Life Breakthrough
When you ask people to use their hands to show what “balance” looks like, hands ultimately raise in some replica of a scale, similar to the scales of justice. Bogus. Yes, the very word “balance”...
View ArticleHow to Keep Your Career Safe in the Age of Technology
It’s December 31, 1999, and everyone around the world awaits the arrival of both the century and millennium. Teachers, airline pilots, train engineers, bus drivers, firefighters, doctors, nurses,...
View ArticleA Hack for Mastering Marketing Agility: Watch the Movie Grease
Do you remember the movie Grease, and its big dance scene? Surprisingly, that scene is the perfect lens to master marketing agility. Summarizing the scene: a dance show chose Rydell High as the site...
View ArticleRunning a Business Can Take a Toll on Your Mental Health
Due to COVID and widespread job loss, many people have decided to become entrepreneurs and start their own business. It’s a great idea to go to work for yourself and build your own dream, but...
View Article7 Quick Fitness Tips For The Busy Career Woman
The day looks something like this. Wake up, get dressed, throw some makeup on, drink 1st of many cups of coffee, and off to work and meetings. Lunch, eaten at your desk might look like whatever is in...
View ArticleHelping Your Child Start a Business
When most people think about a child starting a business, the neighborhood lemonade stand often comes to mind. While there is certainly nothing wrong with that, some children may have more serious...
View ArticleHow to Make Money During The Pandemic
Covid-19 has caused tremendous job loss. As of September 2020, more than 32 million cases have been reported worldwide, and around one million people lost their lives. According to The Guardian, more...
View ArticleYou Can Recover From Setbacks – Here’s How
It doesn’t matter if you’re a newbie to the workforce or a seasoned pro, facing setbacks in your career can be devastating and hard to bounce back from. Whether you didn’t get the promotion you...
View ArticleHow to Weather the Election and the Rest of 2020
Fires. Pandemics. Mass political unrest. Economic precarity. The election crisis. 2020, anyone? It seems like this year is just one wave of crisis after another, and our mental surge capacities are...
View ArticleYour Money: Why Interest Rates Matter
Why You Need to Understand Interest Rates Knowing the basics about money is absolutely essential in 2020. The days of wanting a man to take care of all the financial decisions are long gone, along with...
View Article6 Ways Covid-19 Anxiety Affects Your Work or Job Search
Coronavirus anxiety is increasing as numbers surge across the US and around the globe. As businesses shift, expand and close due to pandemic circumstances, it is especially hard hitting for executive...
View ArticleHot New Titles For Your Winter Reading List
Winter is fast approaching, and there is no better way to spend this season that by curling up with a great new book. From romance, to poetry, to thoughtful YA, and women’s fiction there is something...
View ArticleFederal Guidance to Fly Healthy This Holiday Season
The U.S. Departments of Transportation, Health and Human Services, Homeland Security and State have established a new web portal where airline passengers can obtain updated information on how to Fly...
View ArticleQuitting the Blame Game: 5 Ways to Tame Your Need to Blame
How do you behave when something goes wrong? Do you a) pause to gauge your part in the matter, accept responsibility, and move toward a solution? Or do you b) immediately look for someone else—anyone...
View ArticleThe Money Mindset Shifts That Changed My Life
I grew up in the Midwest as the daughter of immigrants. We didn’t grow up with a lot of money, but we grew up with a lot of love and a lot of determination to succeed. Like many immigrant children, I...
View ArticleThings You Can Be Thankful For At The Thanksgiving Table
This article was originally published on Ms Career Girl in 2012. In this year that has been so stressful for so many of us, this is a good reminder of the things you can be thankful for, still. While...
View ArticleThe Space Between Anxiety and Depression is Called Gratitude
This article first appeared on Ms Career Girl in 2016. In this year of 2020 that has brought us all so many challenges, anxiety and depression have been on the rise and are impacting the lives of...
View ArticleFunding Female Careers: Are Women Financial Equals in the Workplace?
While many companies are attempting to do their best when it comes to gender inequality, it’s still not where we want it to be. Since women are paid 82 cents for every dollar a man makes, it leaves...
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