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). I hope you and your loved ones are well and keeping safe, and wishing us all strength, patience...
How to be more effective (and mind your manners) during online meetings
Online meetings are getting increasingly more popular with the increase in work-from-home arrangements. As the current coronavirus crisis is pushing most people to work remotely, online meetings are becoming the norm more than the exception. If you have been...
How to talk to children about a crisis
Talking to children about a crisis is extremely challenging, and at times downright heart-wrenching, especially as a parent. With the coronavirus crisis upon us, many working parents are faced with tough questions from their children. As a working mom, you may have...
3 Rules of Netiquette or Online Etiquette when Working Remotely with Working Moms
Working online as a working mom presents many complex challenges. While someone working on their own at home has to follow basic rules on online etiquette, for working moms performing their professional responsibilities remotely online, there are many other additional...
How to care for yourself as a working mom in times of crisis
As working moms, many, we’re on the front line of caring for loved ones and families in times of crisis, such as the coronavirus pandemic we’re currently facing. This also may mean we may not have much time to care for ourselves, in between handling childcare,...
Double the Burden: On the Heavy Impact of Coronavirus on Working Moms and How to Help
As we navigate the Coronavirus crisis quarantined at home, many working moms are under extraordinary pressure to handle multiple priorities at once, including childcare, elderly care, remote work and household chores, in addition to keeping a level head and...
Sister Friends: On Developing Healthy Friendships with Other Women
“You’re my person”: When Cristina Yang (Sandra Oh) uttered the now famously coined phrase to her best friend Meredith Grey (Ellen Pompeo) as she shares her decision to put her name down as an emergency contact for her upcoming abortion, it took on a life of its own,...
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). As we're honoring Black History Month, we're also looking forward to the opening of the first...
3 Questions you Must Ask to Find Fulfillment in a career you Don’t Love
In the midst of all the talk about purpose, business success stories, happy entrepreneurial endings, and so on and so forth, it can be tempting to look down at your current career. As you stroll through the pages of Instagram, you may even be experiencing some serious...
Sis, do the (mindset) work: How to keep your fears and feelings from ruining your career
"Leaders must either invest a reasonable amount of time attending to fears and feelings, or squander an unreasonable amount of time trying to manage ineffective and unproductive behaviors." Brene Brown This quote from one of my favorite of Brene Brown's books "Dare to...
