On the Invisible Summer Gender Bill (and What to Do When You’re the One Paying It)

Summer gets sold to us as the slow season. Out-of-office replies go up, calendars clear out, and for one hot minute, everything is supposed to breathe a little easier.For a lot of working mothers, it doesn't play out that way. A camp closes early. A colleague is out....

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...

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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Lunch Break: Structured Linen Trouser Leg Pants

For our lunch break today, we're back to linen with these structured linen trouser leg pants from Loft.com. Last week, we featured this linen safari jacket, and these are great coordinating pants for it, or can be worn alone with an elegant top for work or the...

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Career and Ambition: What is Fueling You?

Happy Tuesday! It's Day 2 of this week, and we're on, keeping' on keeping' on and achieving this week! Reflecting on our careers, ambitions and dreams, some of my girlfriends and I have come to discuss the sources of our motivation. Many a time, we tend to set goals...

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Coffee Break: MAEBbyBIANCA Stationery

Hello Again...For our coffee break today, we are gaga over this MAEBbyBIANCA tag from etsy.com! We came across the MAEBbyBianca stationery on etsy.com, and immediately fell in love with the greeting cards and stationery dedicated to women of color! In the words of the...

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Fit & Flare Shirt Dress

Happy Monday! For our lunch break fashion escapade today, we picked this 3/4 sleeve fit and flare shirt dress by White House Black Market. Loving the sleek stretch poplin dress, the cuffed sleeves and pointed collar, all great for the office in the summer. While the...

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The 411: What We’re Reading this Week

Happy happy Sunday! Hope everyone is having a great Sunday and enjoying the summer weather! As we're relaxing and getting ready for the week, here are some of our favorite articles and posts this past week: Black Enterprise reveals to us in their analysis that as baby...

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Lunch Break: Linen Safari Jacket

TGIF! We're dreaming of exotic escapes today, so our fashion excursion is taking us on a safari with this linen safari jacket from The Limited! Love love this linen jacket in mid-weight linen twill, with its notched lapels and buttoned epaulets! So stylish, and so...

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Coffee Break: Close the Gap App

For our coffee break feature today, we absolutely wanted to talk about the Close the Gap app! We recently ran into it on Twitter, and literally thought: "Wow!" An app that acts as your own personal or business coach, helps you define your goals, build your support...

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