Thoughts from CGN’s Founder
Your Saturday “Stay in Bed” Stimulus
You work hard all week, Career Girls. You balance work, family, friends, cooking, cleaning, and so much more. But somehow, when Saturday rolls around, you just don’t know how to relax. It’s what Miranda Hobbes says to Steve when he ... Read More »
The Stress of a Woman
Last week, The Huffington Post highlighted women and their stress levels in one of their regular Twitter question slideshows. They asked women, “What’s the biggest stressors in your life?” Answers included: “Doing anesthesia for liver transplants.” “Constant paranoia that I ... Read More »
Bootstrapping in America with TastyTrade
Our Founder and CEO, Marcy Twete, was delighted to join Tom Sosnoff and Tony Battista on TastyTrade for their weekly segment “Bootstrapping in America.” Marcy is of course talking Career Girl, but she’s also touching on the way to get ... Read More »
Six Paradoxes Women Leaders Face in 2013
If I’m being honest, I’d tell you that I’m not much of a math person. In fact, in college, I believe I only took one math class simply to fulfill the requirement. But thinking back on that math class, I ... Read More »
Dangerous “Four Letter Words” for Women in Business
Recently, my dear friend and Step Up Women’s Network’s Chicago Managing Director wrote “Call Me the F Word” on her Today’s Chicago Woman blog. The “F Word” in this case? Feminist. She calls to the carpet a number of celebrity ... Read More »
The Great Gifts of Entrepreneurship
Today is a day of gift giving and receiving for many people around the world who celebrate the Christmas holiday. We take the time to buy our friends and family gifts, wrap them with great care, and take immense joy ... Read More »
Girl Meets World!
When it comes to female empowerment, sometimes you’ve gotta celebrate the little things as much as you do the big ones. Woman elected President? Not yet? Equal representation in the Board room? Ummm, not even close. But one tiny, tiny ... Read More »
Shop Small Businesses This Saturday!
You might wonder why we’re posting about Small Business Saturday on Thanksgiving Thursday. It’s because we want to make you think…about tomorrow. Should you head out at 5am and spend your cash all day in the big box stores? Or ... Read More »
Today, Career Girl Network is Thankful for You!
It’s a day of Thanksgiving across the United States, and while of course, we here at Career Girl are thankful for our friends, families, jobs, opportunities, and other traditional Thanksgiving praise-worthy people and things, more than anything, we want to ... Read More »
Don’t Call Me Sweetie
There’s an annoying trend in women’s professional interactions that has been driving me insane for a long time. It’s the tendency to call one another “honey, sweetie, darlin’, sweetheart.” And while I understand that it’s a term of endearment, it’s ... Read More »
