Less Goals, More Vision: 12 Steps to Audit Your Career this Year
‘Tis the season to set big, lofty career goals for the New Year. It rolls around every year, lasts about a couple of days/weeks/minutes to a month and generally ends in a puddle of unanswered emails and too long meetings. If you’ve been there, you know what I’m...
4 Smart New Year Money Moves for Working Women and Moms
You know that sumthin’ sumthin’ about Christmas and the year-end holidays that just makes you lose a bit (or a lot) of your financial mind and neglect your money a bit (or a lot)? That feeling that you don’t need to check your bank account or credit card statement...
From Exhausted Mom to Empowered Mama: Year-End Reflections
I remember being in mind-boggling traffic the day before Christmas, with still quite a few gifts left to get on my list, exhausted as could be. The year before, I had promised myself not to get to this point of exhaustion and overwhelm again during the holidays. Yet...
TCS Podcast Episode 57: 4 Genders Biases To Look Out For in Your Performance Review
In this episode, I discuss 4 gender biases to look out for in your performance review as a working woman and mom at work. These biases include: the language bias the visibility bias the proximity bias the ingroup bias Listen in for more awareness around these...
4 types of gender biases in performance reviews you should look out for
As one of the only women at work, I used to dread performance review time, especially at year-end. Although I was supposed to know what to expect, it was most often a somewhat unclear, hence stressful experience. However, the more I’ve grown personally and...
Is gratitude a trap for women? How to navigate the gratitude trap as a woman
I remember it like it was yesterday. I had just left a well-paying job with benefits, with no backup plan other than following my purpose. With two young children, a mortgage and bills shared with my husband, I took the most dangerous leap of faith I could have ever...
Got Dense Breasts? Why You Should Care and How It Affects Your Breast Cancer Risk
The letter came in the mail a couple of days before I even got a chance to open it. It was a routine mammogram I thought nothing of, like most of the other mammograms I had done before. Except this one was a tad different… The word “abnormal” jumped at me from the...
From Career Sacrifice to Career Focus: Managing your Career in a Sustainable Way as a Working Woman
Have you ever wondered how you can advance your career while being a woman, wife and/or mother, and not having to work 40+ hours every week? Have you ever considered cloning yourself so you could do all the things, everywhere at the same time? You’re certainly not the...
Summer Book Review: My favorite fiction books this summer
If summer is also your time to catch up on your fiction books, then you’re certainly not alone. Like many, it’s also my time to unwind and catch up on my fiction reading. There’s something about the summer months that just make you look forward to evading in a nice...
TCS Podcast Episode 56: The Summer Recap Edition
This episode is a summer recap for my working women and moms, looking back at the reality of the summer mental load, the power of doing nothing at all (yes, it's possible!), and how to make our careers hot again in the summer months (without sacrificing our summer fun...
