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AI is Reshaping Women’s Careers. How to Leverage the Opportunity and Fight The Threat…

by Solange Lopes | March 26, 2025 | Career | 0 Comments

I remember having passionate conversations with my husband about artificial intelligence (AI). A progressive adopter of new technologies, he couldn’t understand my initial resistance to AI. I, as a strong believer in human creativity and intellect, and a staunch...

What No One Tells You About Parenting Teens as a Working Mom

by Solange Lopes | March 11, 2025 | Career | 0 Comments

I can’t distinctly recall when it happened exactly. Somewhere between the “tween” and teen stage, my daughter refused to wear dresses. Or at least the dresses I would buy her. While seemingly insignificant, this drew a pretty significant line in the sand of my...

How to reclaim your own brand of leadership in uncertain times

by Solange Lopes | March 5, 2025 | Career | 0 Comments

Here I was, standing in front of a full classroom of students, not quite fully ready to step into this new academic career. Everything in my past experience, from shying away from speaking up, to a predominantly behind-the-scenes corporate career, seemed to go against...

The Feminization of Wealth: How to Reshape Your Financial Power As a Working Woman

by Solange Lopes | February 12, 2025 | LIFESTYLE, Make More Money | 0 Comments

The other day, I innocently asked Dear Daughter why she did not ask me to go to the store instead of her dad. To which she quickly responded: “Mom, you’re kind of cheap…” After the initial maternal hurt and shock, coupled with the realization that my dear child...

On Integrating Motherhood and Career As a Working Mom

by Solange Lopes | January 22, 2025 | Career | 0 Comments

I was recently on a trip back home to Senegal to visit my aging parents. Sandwiched in between taking care of my parents, mothering my teens from a distance, and intermittently checking my work email, I realized how much motherhood had evolved for me. I was literally...

Rethinking What you Want out of your Career after the Pandemic? 3 Principles to Reframe your Career

by Solange Lopes | Sep 28, 2021

One thing that is sure about the pandemic, is that it has definitely radically altered the way we think about work, especially as working women and moms. As we went through the pandemic and watched the lines between work, life and parenting being blurred, throwing...

#SheDidThat: The Corporate Sister News Roundup

by Solange Lopes | Sep 25, 2021

Welcome to this week's News Roundup, where we chat about what happened in the news around working women and moms' careers, businesses, parenting and lifestyles. Read up... Black Enterprise reveals groundbreaking ophtalmologist Dr. Patricia E. Bath is set to become one...

Book Review: Who Moved My Cheese?

by Solange Lopes | Sep 19, 2021

If you’ve ever wondered about how to deal with change in your career and life, you owe it to yourself to read this book. “Who moved my cheese?” by Dr. Spencer Johnson was recommended during a professional training, igniting my curiosity. I literally devoured it in one...

#AskACPA: Should I report my side hustle income as part of my income taxes?

by Solange Lopes | Sep 17, 2021

Welcome to our #AskACPA feature, where we answer accounting, financial and business questions. Send us your questions at corporate@thecorporatesister.com. Question: Should I report my side hustle income in my taxes? The answer is yes! Any money you make through your...

3 Ways to Leverage Change in Your Career

by Solange Lopes | Sep 16, 2021

As we’re starting to emerge from the global COVID-19 pandemic, one thing we can all say is that we’ve become quite familiar with change. From one day to the other, we’ve gone from going about our daily lives the way we’ve always known, to being hunkered down in our...

To PhD or not to PhD? 3 Reasons to Get a Terminal Degree in your Field

by Solange Lopes | Aug 11, 2021

To PhD or not to PhD? Making the decision to pursue a terminal degree is no easy feat. Making the decision to pursue a terminal degree as a working woman or working mom may downright be one of the toughest decisions you’ll have to make in your career and life. Going...

Ask A CPA: How do I account for my side hustle?

by Solange Lopes | Aug 10, 2021

If you’re among the 45% of Americans who have a side hustle, you are in good company along with the roughly 70 million people side hustling in the U.S. If you’re a working woman, you may be part of the 51% of women who actually rely on the gig economy to make ends...

Overcommitted? How to use the Rule of 3 to streamline your schedule and avoid burnout

by Solange Lopes | Aug 9, 2021

How many times have you started your week overwhelmed by the sheer amount of work staring you in the face? From your professional to your personal responsibilities, your schedule can easily have you going insane before you even begin your day, especially as a working...

Fear of success or fear of failure? How to address the fear that you might actually make it

by Solange Lopes | Jul 23, 2021

Have you ever stood at the door of an incredible opportunity, and wanted nothing less than to run the other way? How many times have you anticipated with dread the possibility that you may actually win? Have you ever feared actually making it, rather than failing at...

3 tips to equalize the invisible mental load with your partner as a working mom

by Solange Lopes | Jul 22, 2021

If you are a working mom yourself, the mental load involved in running a household and caring for children is no surprise to you by now. Truth is, many working moms feel quite alone carrying this invisible load, as their partner and society at large are often...