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...
Let it be Friday: Weekly News Update

Let it be Friday: Weekly News Update

Welcome to Let It Be Friday!, where I say hello (and TGIF), and round up the lifestyle, career and business news that inspired, excited, made me smile (or laugh out loud). In historical news, NBC News reports Joy Ann Reid is set to host the Reid-Out on MSNBC, making...

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This pandemic is a wake-up call for working mothers

This pandemic is a wake-up call for working mothers

It takes a crisis to reveal the true character of situations. The current COVID-19 pandemic, as most crisis, is  revealing many, if not most of the inequities, around gender. One of the most striking manifestations of this is directly linked to parenting. The reality...

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Dealing with fear in uncertain times: Do it afraid

Dealing with fear in uncertain times: Do it afraid

Fear is real. It creeps up into every aspect of your life and work, paralyzing you and threatening to topple you at every turn. When fear overtakes not just you, but your entire network and community, it now becomes pandemonium. Times of uncertainty bring fear. They...

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Let it be Friday!

Let it be Friday!

Welcome to Let It Be Friday!, where I say hello (and TGIF), and round up the lifestyle, career and business news that inspired, excited, made me smile (or laugh out loud). In great diversity news, Black Enterprise reveals Javicia Leslie is set to be the first Black...

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Dear Working Mom, You’re Allowed to Let Go…

Dear Working Mom, You’re Allowed to Let Go…

Dear Working Mom is our weekly love letter to working moms everywhere, where we talk about motherhood, life, work and everything in between… Dear Working Mom, You’ve taken on a lot over time. A lot of responsibilities, a lot of pressure, a lot of care, and a lot of...

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