How to Make Small Career Investments that Compound After the Summer 

Every summer, many of us as working women and moms look forward to a slower pace of life: more family time, vacations, a well-deserved break,  and maybe even catching up on postponed projects and finding more time to invest in our careers… And right as the...

Praise or Pay: How to Turn Appreciation and Invisible Labor into Pay as a Working Mom

Every year on Mother's Day, organizations show their appreciation for working mothers with symbols of gratitude—thank-you cards, flowers, appreciation emails. While these are heartwarming and certainly welcome, they rarely translate into actual benefits at work....

Why Hard Work Is Not Enough: What Women Should Know About Meritocratic Systems (and How to Beat Them)

As a working woman, the idea of meritocracy may have been introduced earlier on in life to you. From popular advice to widely accepted success principles, merit-based guidance may have followed you all throughout your education and career.  “Work hard. Be...

Are You Being Financially Discounted at Work? How to Recognize It, and Correct It

Have you ever walked out of a compensation conversation feeling like something didn’t quite add up?Not because you underperformed.Not because you lacked results.But because the offer felt… cautious. Conservative. Tempered.As if someone quietly adjusted the forecast on...

New Year, New Career? Why Women’s Careers Don’t Reset in January (and What to Do About It)

New year, new career? Or is it? The start of the year is supposed to feel like a career reset. New goals. New momentum. New clarity about where you’re headed professionally. And the hope that last year is behind you and this one will be better, or at least...

Career and Giving Back

Happy Monday! Hope everyone had a great week-end, and all the dads out there were happily celebrated for Father's Day! Ours on this side of the blogosphere was quite busy, and getting started on Monday morning is proving to be a bit challenging (what else is...

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Lunch Break: Flare Skirt

TGIF, and happy lunch break! Today, we are "flaring" with admiration for this flare skirt in super 120s wool from J. Crew! Loving the fit-and-flare shape of the skirt, as well as the fact that it's tailored out of one of the finest merino wools, thus great for summer!...

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Coffee Break: Father’s Day Gift

Sunday is Father's Day, and you know as busy as you are, you may have been planning for it, yet haven't had a chance to actually get to it... Well, for those of you still wondering, here is a great idea for a Father's Day gift, that we stumbled upon on...

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Lunch Break: Stretch Cotton Sailor Pants

It's lunch break time! We are in a nautical mood today, so we've picked these stretch cotton sailor pants! It's always tricky to find a nice pair of well-fitting, flattering white pants for the summer; we all know how revealing white can be (i've had my share of...

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Lunch Break: Delphone Stacked Heel

Hello again....For our lunch break today, I'm going on a limb, and departing from my usual classic mid-heel, conventional pump for work. I've been eyeing these Delphone stacked heels from NastyGal.com for a while, and decided it should be our unconventional fashion...

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What is Your Career Mission Statement?

Happy Hump Day! We're half-way through the week, time to re-evaluate what we've done (or not) thus far this week, and set to accomplish the remainder of our goals for this week. In our careers and our lives, we're on a mission! And speaking of mission, what is your...

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Coffee Break: Cambiami Sandals

Hello again...We're back for our coffee-break, water cooler chit chat of the day, with these Cambiami sandals that we thought to be a pretty darn good idea for the summer! As summer is upon us, sandal season is definitely in full swing, and as much we love our...

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