11 Steps to Making Decisions That Ensure Career Satisfaction
People who are authentically satisfied with their careers are often skilled decision makers. This comes naturally to some. But anyone can improve their decision-making skills. The scientific...
View ArticleHow to Survive Your Office Christmas Party
Over a third of British workers dread their work Christmas party because they’re scared of looking ridiculous on the dancefloor. Does the phrase ‘Christmas party’ fill you with trepidation? Fear not!...
View ArticleThe Three Types of Questions You Absolutely Need to Ask in a Job Interview
Most people are conditioned to see a job interview as a one-way street, but in fact, job interviews go both ways. Under the old paradigm, we saw job interviews as opportunities for a hiring manager to...
View ArticleHow Women Can Become Crowdfunding Innovators
When I launched Music Beats Cancer, the first charitable crowdfunding platform for biotech innovation, in 2014, crowdfunding wasn’t commonplace. Kickstarter had then been around for seven years but...
View ArticleStepping Back to Move Forward: Why Taking Thoughtful Breaks & Pauses Can Lead...
One of the greatest ironies of professional life is that skills such as functional expertise and hard work can help us get ahead in our early professional life, but can also trap us into a career...
View ArticleWhat’s on Your Life’s Grocery List?
Have you ever gone to the grocery store without a list? We all know what happens next… You spend extra time going through all the aisles. Chocolate-covered banana snacks and a bag of weird...
View ArticleGetting Started – How to Discover Your Business Niche
In a previous article for Ms. Career Girl The First Step to Career Success is Finding Your Soul Purpose – Here’s How (mscareergirl.com), I talked about how to find and tune into your soul purpose, or...
View ArticleTransform Your Trauma instead of Transferring It
When you hear the word ‘trauma’ what comes to mind? When someone else shares a distressing event that happened to them, what happens to your body? Does it freeze? Does it ache? Or does it want to run?...
View ArticleHow to Get Started in the Filmmaking Industry
Working in the film industry is an exciting career. It’s filled with fun, hard work, creativity and endless opportunities. Unlike all of my friends, when I started, I decided to skip university and...
View ArticleHow to Find Freedom from Toxic Hustle Culture in 2022
Hustle culture is killing us. The idea that working endless hours running multiple businesses is the only way to achieve success has been proven to be both toxic and harmful. And yet our society...
View ArticleBeautiful Rock Bottom: Six Tips to Push Through When Your Business (or Life)...
Days after the pandemic spread in March 2020, Flash Pack – the $55 million travel company I created along with my husband, Lee – was plunged into crisis. The venture capitalists who had been wrestling...
View Article3 Things You Can Do Now To Find a Job in 2022
As the year kicks off, many folks are are getting ready to take the next step in their career, contemplating making themselves more marketable. The key is to make opportunities come to you instead of...
View ArticleHow to Stay Safe in a Coworking Space
Remote work was on the rise before the COVID-19 pandemic, but the virus caused it to surge more than ever before. Now that more workers (and employers) are seeing the benefits, it’s likely that the...
View ArticleBuilding Tomorrow’s Career Woman: Encouraging and Educating Young Women
So you’ve made it … or you are on your way. You’ve gotten the education, perfected the resume, honed the interviewing skills and finally landed the job! You’ve popped the bubbly and thought to...
View ArticleWhy Women Are Poised to Seize the Year (Not Just the Day) in 2022
For decades, women have steadily made impressive strides in the political and corporate arenas. Still, there’s a lot of ground to cover before we’re equally represented, especially in the upper...
View ArticleShould You Quit Your Job?
Right about now, your inbox, your social feed, your local news, your parakeet are all squawking, “New Job, New You!” Spoiler alert: this ain’t that. Yet, every year about this time we’re all...
View ArticleTime Management Strategies to Balance Motherhood and Career
The term “working mom” is nothing to take lightly. If you’re working full-time with a little one at home, you’re a superhero. Multiple studies have shown that raising a child is more than a full-time...
View ArticleFinancial Well-Being Habits For Career Women
Do you feel like money is controlling you or do you feel in control of your finances giving you freedom of choice? Read on and you will find the power to shift your story and your emotional...
View ArticleWhy Is Everyone So Angry?
Note from Ms Career Girl editor: These days, America is more of a stewing pot than a melting pot. Elaine Parke’s TheHabits of Unity provides the “mental nutrition” to help us defuse the anger that’s...
View ArticleDon’t Wait! Make the World a Better Place Now!
Stop whatever you’re doing and think on this: What would you do if you learned you might have only a few years to live? It’s not a fun question, but I’ve found myself pondering it more than once....
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