Life After Five
How to Make Your Birthday Sparkle
Summer birthdays are the best (in my opinion) and my summer seems to be jam-packed with them. In celebrating my own and others, conversations about birthdays have been prevalent. I’ve learned about how some people love their birthdays and maximize ... Read More »
Busyness Equals Worth?
My entire life I have believed in keeping busy. I had a job, school, friends, extracurricular activities. In college there were often debates about who really had the most work to do; whose major was really the hardest. You could ... Read More »
The Importance of Recovery
Unless you’re a distance runner, or watching Dr. Phil or Intervention, you probably don’t hear the word “recovery” very often in your day-to-day life. I certainly hadn’t heard this word outside of drug rehab discussions until I delved into the ... Read More »
The Real Voice of the Female Athlete
Sometimes you see a video, hear a commercial on the radio, or see an ad in print and it stops you in your tracks. That’s what this Nike video did for me recently. Here, Nike juxtaposes the voices and images ... Read More »
Women Will Outearn Men by 2024
There’s an infographic making its way around the web called “Women in Numbers.” And while the infographic is interesting and thought provoking in many ways, one statistic struck us as most important. 2024. On the middle left side. 2024 – ... Read More »
“When we know better, we do better.”
The incomparable Maya Angelou has a quote made popular by the arguably more famous Oprah Winfrey which is, “When we know better, we do better.” When I first heard this quote, it resonated. I used it to relate to my ... Read More »
Back to Work After a Holiday – Strategies for Success
It’s the day after the 4th of July, and inevitably you’re experiencing the “what day is it” blues. Today will feel like Monday, tomorrow like some weird kind of Thursday, and you’re in danger of spending most of your time ... Read More »
My Rate is My Rate
At the recent Tech Week Conference in Chicago, a “Women in Tech” panel featured Yesenia Sotelo, the Founder of Smart Cause Digital, a Chicago-based firm that builds digital infrastructure and implementation strategies for nonprofit organizations. And while the panel discussion ... Read More »
The Power of Female Relationships
We’ve been busy the past two weeks looking at our negative self-talk and getting ahead of shame. To supplement our internal dialogue shift, I thought I’d talk about how female friendships turbo kick our ability to positively change. While our ... Read More »
TaskRabbit and Other Tools to Make Your Job Easier
In the words of David Harrison, Vice President of Engineering for Freelancer.com, “How would your life change if you had access to virtually unlimited labor at next to no cost?” For instance….Those tasks that linger on your task list – ... Read More »
