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Work-Life Balance: Return to Work While the Going’s Good
Key Takeaways: work‑life balance is a strategic choice—not a luxury. Keeping even a small job while caregiving (for children or aging parents) ensures financial stability and continuity. Opting out of work for caregiving without planning can cost you dearly—those who...
10 Mindsets That Undercut Happiness
Key Takeaways: happiness begins in your mind—many of the beliefs you hold actually undercut your joy before life even strikes; shifting these mindsets is where real change starts. Fixed mindsets lead you to avoid challenges and see failure as proof of limitations,...
Is It Possible to Have A MidLife Crisis at 30? 40? 50?
Key Takeaways: Midlife crisis isn’t a breakdown—it’s a wake-up call to align your inner voice with your outer life as you evolve through decades. Your 30s may stir restlessness as success benchmarks lose meaning, prompting deeper questions about fulfillment. The 40s...
How To Stop Negative Self Talk
When's the last time you tuned into the self talk running in the background of your thoughts? The one that's telling you that you're great - or not? It can feel like an impossible thing to try to reprogram that voice, but you can and unless you're constantly telling...
3 Mindsets of People That Have It All
Key Takeaways: Have it all yet stay grounded: True success isn’t just about accumulating—it's understanding why you want something and ensuring your ambitions align with your values. Clarity of purpose drives action: Highly effective people know exactly what they’re...
7 Tips for Bouncing Back From Disappointment
Key Takeaways: Disappointment is painful and unavoidable, but there are emotional strategies that can help you bounce back and recover more quickly. Emotional healing starts not with logic but with movement, laughter, and action—tools that help shift your mood from...
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Leadership
3 Ways Powerful Leaders Can Practice the Art of Saying No
Make your YES mean more by saying NO more often. Saying “No” is hard because we don’t just say the word, we burden it with other – unsaid – baggage on both the sayer’s and receiver’s part. But it doesn’t have to be that way and powerful leaders know how to use the Art of No in ways that leave the listener feeling useful, appreciated and inspired. Learn to practice the Art of No. Your team will thank you for it.
5 Leadership Lessons From The Worst Bosses I’ve Ever Had
Key Takeaways: Learn from the Bad to Lead Better: Some of the most powerful leadership lessons come from watching what not to do. Pay attention to how poor leadership feels—then commit to doing the opposite with intention and integrity. Respect Your People: Employees...
Reclaiming Leadership: A Manifesto
Key Takeaways: Leadership isn’t reserved for the C-suite—it’s a daily, personal choice to stand in your power and be a force for positive change, wherever you are. We've let go of our dreams and power too easily—traded in our passion for the illusion of security, and...
Women in Leadership
Why The Woman Effect? Men are Helping Us
Key Takeaways: Work-life balance is evolving into work-life partnership. Many successful women are thriving not because they’ve mastered a solo juggle, but because they’ve built supportive partnerships—especially at home—with men who share the load, often in ways that...
Why Are Women Burning Out If We Aren’t Working Over 50+ Hours A Week?
Key Takeaways: Burning out isn’t a personal failing—it’s a cultural problem. We’ve been conditioned to see exhaustion as either a weakness or a badge of honor, when in reality it’s a red flag waving at a toxic, unsustainable system. The “I’m so busy” mantra isn’t...
Do You Confuse Emotions with Emotional Intelligence (EQ?)
Key Takeaways: Emotional intelligence isn’t about suppressing feelings—it’s about understanding them. EQ isn’t the absence of emotion; it’s the skill of recognizing emotions (yours and others’) and responding to them in a way that’s constructive, not reactive. Strong...
Mentoring
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Career Advice
How to be Feminine, Ambitious and Successful: Navigating the Gender Gap in Workplace Ambition
A common theme among the women I coach–at all levels–is a clear awareness of the gender gap in workplace ambition and confusion about how to navigate it. Key Takeaways Understanding Gendered Ambition Norms: Many women feel pressured to choose between achievement and...
What’s Your Dream Job and How Can Knowing it Light Up Your Soul?
Let’s face it: work is work. Even the best dream job turns into a daily grind eventually. And what if you’re in a job search? Looking for a job is work, too! What can make work less work? Hint: know the answer to the question “What’s your dream job?” Wait....
The Cost of Analysis Paralysis
Most of the time when I tell people that I am researching women and business, the conversation wanders into what I now think of as “the analysis paralysis” conundrum in which we try to suss out the why’s of women’s place in society. Here are common themes that come...
Interviews
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Diversity & Inclusion
Why You Want a Seat at the Table Early in Your Career
I won’t pretend that I see every trend or can put my finger on THE solution to how to achieve gender parity in leadership, however, I do notice a few things I believe can help women gain important perspectives. One thing that’s popped up in my practice...
Damned if you do…. Unpacking Gender Bias in the Workplace
Over a decade ago, when I began writing about women in leadership and gender bias, I was very hopeful. Up to that point I had, what I thought, was a good experience working in mixed gender workplaces. I felt welcome and generally appreciated as a female leader. When I...
Why I Am A Male Feminist
By: Rob Sterling It's not often a fresh new voice enters the women's inpowerment movement, but today we have one. Meet Rob Sterling, male homemaker, feminist, and advocate for women's and men's rights to make careers out of what makes them happy. Rob believes that...
