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How to plan a successful career when you have no blueprint, limited time and resources
It’s one thing to set career goals at the beginning of the year. It’s another to actually devise a plan to reach those goals, especially as busy working women and moms. Many of us set ambitious goals as a new year, or even a new season begins, only to get stuck...
6 Best Ways Women Can Avoid the Inflated ‘Pink Tax’
Although it is not a tax, the "pink tax" refers to a pricing structure favoring women's goods and services. According to BALANCE, women pay around 13 percent more for personal care items like body wash, shampoo, lotions, and perfume than men. Even razors targeted at...
10 Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Goals for the New Year
Many are the professional goals set at the beginning of each new year, both at the individual and at the company level. However, little attention is often paid to diversity and inclusion goals as part of these. Yet, diversity and inclusion are an important part of...
3 Tips to Be More Consistent as Women and Moms
If you’re like me, you know how difficult it can be to be consistent, whether at work or in life. For many, if not most of us, it can be so easy to set new goals and objectives in our minds, whether it’s being more productive at work or setting a regular gym routine....
7 Steps to Plan Your Exit From Big Corporate
So it just hits you one day...After years in Big Corporate, doing the 9-to-5 thing, you’re finally ready to make the big JUMP into full-time entrepreneurship. Maybe up until now, you’ve been doing the side hustle thing here and there to lay the groundwork. But now,...
#NoMoreResolutions: 3 Simple Questions To Ask Yourself Before the New Year
We’re a few weeks/days away from the start of another year, and the New Year's Resolutions/Goals Machine, as I like to call it, is in full swing. Resolutions are being made, gym memberships are being shopped around, and goals are being set everywhere… But after a...
On using your voice and regaining your power in the wake of shootings
For a few weeks after I lost my sister, I lost my voice. Literally. I couldn’t speak, or write, or even think clearly for a while. Something inside of me went numb for some time, then rose in uncontrollable anger, then later subsided in the depths of my soul, (still)...
7 Ways of Reclaiming Your Power at Work
We've all been there, at some point or another, in our careers...That point when you're not too sure where your career's going...When you doubt yourself and your professional abilities. to the point of considering dropping everything and backpacking through the...
TCS Podcast Episode 42: 7 principles to unleash more of who you are (the book)
In this podcast episode, I introduce The Corporate Sister book #2: "More: The Journey of Unleashing More of Who You Are". (available on Amazon). In it, I discuss the 7 principles outlined in the book, from welcoming and embracing disruption and change, to...
7 principles to unleash more of who you are (The Book)
Have you ever said to yourself, whether it was as related to a life or work situation, there’s got to be MORE? Have you ever been so sick and tired of being sick and tired of the status quo in your workplace and wondered if there is more to your career? Have you been...
Ditching Hard Motherhood for Softer Mothering: Thriving instead of surviving as working moms
Motherhood is beautiful. Yet, for many working mothers, especially in the US, especially in the past few years peppered with global pandemics, political and economic woes, motherhood has been "hard". Hard is not often a word that we want to associate with being a...
TCS Podcast 41: Thriving as a Black woman at work
In this episode, the first of Black History Month 2023, I discuss what it takes to thrive, and not just survive, in the workplace as a Black woman at work, and as minorities in general. More specifically, I talk about the concept of "agile authenticity", which...