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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...
From business to career: How the SWOT analysis can help you thrive as a working woman
Have you ever used a SWOT analysis in the business you serve, or in your own business? If you have, you may know it as a powerful tool of business evaluation, whereby an organization evaluates its strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats (SWOT). However, you...
Spirit Sunday: What Seeds Are You Planting?
I do NOT have a green thumb. You know how the cashier just puts up the "Closed" sign right when it's your turn to cash out? Well, that's what kinda happened when green thumbs were being allotted in the "Natural Gifts" department, and I got to the cashier...
What’s Faith Gotta Do With It: Faith And Your Career
Happy Sunday! For the longest time, I avoided using the F-word at work. Not that F-word, the other one. As a matter of fact, even thinking about it at work would seem strange. And before you start even thinking we're diving into some kind of religious tangent, let me...
A Good Marriage is Not Great: Why A Good Career Won’t Do For Millenials
Happy Thursday! Marriage is not easy. Actually, if anything requires work, it would be putting two people together with different sets of toothbrushes and brains together, and then proceed to ask them to spend the rest of their lives sharing bedsheets and possibly one...
Sister Talk: Embrace Your Innate Leadership
In the wake of South African and world symbol of human spirit and leadership Nelson Mandela, we all owe it to him and to ourselves to take a good, hard look at ourselves, especially as people of color, and ask the hard questions. The essential questions, like "What...
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...
TCS Podcast episode 38: Less Resolutions, More Consistency in 2023!
In this podcast episode, the first in the new year 2023, I discuss skipping the usual resolutions and instead going for consistency in 2023! If you're like me, you may pick a word of the year at the beginning of each year to give your year more focus and direction....
How to Set Family Goals for the New Year
After becoming a mother, I started getting in the habit of setting goals for my growing family. This became all the more important as our family kept growing, and the demands of work and life in general started taking over. Achieving some semblance of balance became...
How to deal with resentment as a working mom
How many times as a working mom have you felt a wave of resentment come up at the thought of everything you have to do day in and day out? And how many times has this resentment made you feel guilty as a result? Further, let me ask you, how many times have you even...