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...

New Year, New Career? Why Women’s Careers Don’t Reset in January (and What to Do About It)

New year, new career? Or is it? The start of the year is supposed to feel like a career reset. New goals. New momentum. New clarity about where you’re headed professionally. And the hope that last year is behind you and this one will be better, or at least...

When the Holidays Meet Performance Reviews: How to Handle the Weight of the Season

It’s year-end again, and here we are steeped in year-end deadlines, holiday shopping, festivities planning, and…year-end performance review time at work. If you’ve ever wondered why year-end feels like an exhausting test on the home and work front, you are far from...

The Thanksgiving Tax: On the Real Cost of Women’s Holiday Labor

Every Thanksgiving and the ensuing holiday season, many, if not most, women step into an all-too familiar rhythm. It’s the rhythm of tireless planning, strategic coordinating, devoted caretaking, and organizing, smoothing, prepping, cooking, hosting, remembering, and...
7 Steps to Plan Your Exit From Big Corporate

7 Steps to Plan Your Exit From Big Corporate

So it just hits you one day...After years in Big Corporate, doing the 9-to-5 thing, you’re finally ready to make the big JUMP into full-time entrepreneurship. Maybe up until now, you’ve been doing the side hustle thing here and there to lay the groundwork. But now,...

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Wear to Work: Red Blazer

Wear to Work: Red Blazer

Our Wear to Work feature showcases a piece of attire for business and professional women.  'Tis the season for festive colors, more specifically red. Which is why I've decided to feature some festive red blazers this season, starting with this Collection Two-button...

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WorkWear Black Friday Sales

WorkWear Black Friday Sales

In this post, I'm rounding up the Black Friday sales for my favorite workwear brands. Check it out below! Ann Taylor is having a 50% off sale site wide; Loft is also offering sales up to 50% off; Nordstrom is having amazing deals on top women's clothing brands + an...

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Wear to Work: Pleated Ponte Dress

Wear to Work: Pleated Ponte Dress

Our Wear to Work feature showcases a piece of attire for business and professional women.  If you ask me, the new LBD is the LRD (Little Red Dress). Nothing says "power dress" like a red dress that can literally take you from desk to wine in a cinch. Like this J. Crew...

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