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3 Simple Accounting Principles to Run Your Career like A Successful Business
What do the most successful businesses have in common? They’re run efficiently like well-oiled machines. Most importantly, they use systems and processes to create efficiencies and minimize time waste. As busy working women and moms, whose most precious commodity is...
Achieve More With Less: 3 simple principles to do more with less in your career
Have you ever hit a wall in your career where you were just too exhausted to keep going? Have you ever wondered how to create more hours in the day to get all your work done? Have you tried many different ways to get more done and have come up with abysmal results? I...
Feeling trapped? 3 tips to reclaim your freedom as a working mom
If you’ve ever felt trapped by motherhood, somewhere between unloading the umpteenth load of laundry and answering the last email of the day on the kitchen table, you may have also felt like you should have never felt that way. You may have experienced such strong...
How to create more freedom in your career as a working woman
Whether you’re working in the office or from home, the feeling of being trapped in your career is one you may be all too familiar with. It’s this sense of not having agency over the very work you do, or even worse, how you spend your time at work. Even worse, it can...
6 Steps to Go From Corporate to Called
My friend A. has officially set up a date to quit her corporate job to follow her dream of becoming a life coach. While many may envy her determination and the undeniable pep in her step and renewed gusto for life, I know she didn't just jump from one career to the...
Spirit Sunday: If You Believe It, You Will Achieve It
With the New Year just starting, many of us have dreams, plans and goals we're hoping to accomplish. Whether it's a promotion at work, writing that first book, or building a business, there are things you want to accomplish, places you're planning to visit,...
Is Your Lack of Faith Ruining Your Career?
I know, Faith is one of the F-words at work, and many believe it does not exactly belong in the workplace. Yet, for those who believe in the power of faith in the workplace, it appears faith can even increase our ROI at work. When we speak of faith at work, many...
Sunday Spirit: Are You Ready for your Big Break?
Are you feeling like you are this close to your breakthrough, yet not quite making it? Do you keep facing the same obstacles, only to realize more and more work is required of you? Many a times, we put in the work, step out in faith, awaiting the big promotion at...
How to plan for more work-life integration as a working woman and mom
When we think of working women and moms, we often think of work-life balance, this elusive Eldorado of perfect (or semi-perfect) equilibrium between motherhood, work, and life in general. An elusive Eldorado that has yet to be proven true, and whose impracticality and...
TCS Podcast Episode 39: Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Goals for 2023
In this episode, I discuss 10 Diversity, Equity and Inclusion goals for 2023, as part of our professional goals. Here are some of the book resources cited in this episode: The Leaders’ Guide to Unconscious Bias: How to Reframe Bias, Cultivate Connection and...
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...
How to fight weaponized incompetence at work and home
Let me ask you: When was the last time you decided to tidy up the kitchen yourself because no one else at home would do it, or do it right for that matter? How about taking over the task of organizing lunches and get-togethers in your department at work? Or even...