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...
7 Ways to Enrich Your Career In The Summer (Without Hijacking Your Summer Fun)
It’s the middle of summer, and I am trying out a new African restaurant with a colleague and a new professional acquaintance while nerding out on artificial intelligence during a work conference. Here I was, actually enjoying myself and advancing my career, while...
The Rest Bias for Women: Uncovering the Struggle and Power of Doing Nothing as a Working Woman
For the first time in my adult life, I took a month off. An entire month off, traveling, seeing new places, swimming in the ocean and mostly “being” as opposed to “doing”. And it shocked the entire heck out of my system, my overachieving, productivity-minded, A-type...
Can we talk about the heavy summer mental load for working moms? And how to unload it for good…
If you’ve found yourself drowning in summer activities’ plans, getaways, packing and unpacking for trips, all the while striving to have kids keep up with their summer work and you with yours, then you may have experienced a specific kind of mental load affecting...
At the Intersection of Work and Home: Reconciling Leading at Home and at Work as Working Women and Moms
It is often said that moms make great leaders, probably the best leaders. The invaluable, often innate skills that come from motherhood, from intuition, to organization and effective team management, are also described as main leadership qualities; qualities which...
TCS Podcast Episode 55: Can I lead authentically as a woman at work?
In this episode, I address the question of authentic (and different) leadership for working women and working moms. I discuss: 1)revisiting our beliefs about leadership, 2) challenging the foundations of leadership in the organizations and institutions we're part of,...
Can Women Authentically Lead at Work?
“Can I lead authentically as a woman at work?” This is a question I often asked myself coming up in my own career. As a young Black woman and immigrant starting my career in corporate America, leadership was hardly ever mentioned around me. After all, I felt lucky...
5 Unconventional Tips to Be More Confident as a Woman Entrepreneur
Have you ever considered becoming an entrepreneur and literally shirked at the prospect of putting yourself out there? Do you feel you don’t have the confidence it takes to launch your own entrepreneurial dreams, especially in industries and areas where women are in...
Confident like a mother! On Developing Confidence as a Working Mom
The other day, I was in the middle of disciplining one of my babies (who are no longer babies), when the thought “ I have no idea what I’m doing” crossed my mind. As a Black mom of a pre-teen and a full-blown teenager, these moments in my working mom life are...
TCS Podcast Episode 54: Redefining Your Own Brand of Confidence as a Working Woman
Got confidence? In this podcast episode, I'm chatting about dismantling the myth that confidence is solely associated with male and patriarchal attributes such as assertiveness, boldness, and even aggressiveness. Instead, I discuss my own journey of steering away from...
