From Fast Company authored by Art Markman: “Nearly every parent who’s working to support a family feels constrained by their career choices: Providing financial security for your children usually takes precedence over fulfilling your own dreams and aspirations. If you’re especially fortunate, you don’t have to choose or compromise. But many of us do, even […]
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Using Client Reviews to Grow Your Practice
Contribution from our SPONSOR ZipBooks authored by Aubrey Milligan. Aubrey is a writer and marketer at ZipBooks. It’s likely that the last time you were trying to figure out a new restaurant to go to for a girls night out, you used review websites like Google and Yelp to decide the ideal destination. Though online reviews […]
How We’ll Win – The Visionaries
From Quartz at Work: “This is not a list: It’s a collection of insights from visionaries around the world aimed at anyone committed to empowering women. In a series of interviews, these women laid bare their struggles, revealed their secrets to success, and told us about their next big idea. Whether she’s launching her career […]
The Power of Positive People
From The New York Times authored by Tara Parker-Pope: “Are you spending time with the right people for your health and happiness? While many of us focus primarily on diet and exercise to achieve better health, science suggests that our well-being also is influenced by the company we keep. Researchers have found that certain health […]
Self-Confidence: How To Find It, How To Keep It
From Forbes authored by Jill Griffin: “Self-confidence. Everybody wants it, but how to get it and keep it is something of a mystery. In fact, the topic has been widely researched with an equally wide range of conclusions. It seems like almost every week there’s a new theory that promises the magic elixir for projecting […]
IF YOU GIVE SOMEONE A JOB: WHAT MY FAVORITE CHILDHOOD BOOK TAUGHT ME ABOUT LEADERSHIP
From Women 2.0 authored by Laura Velasquez: “When I was a kid learning to read, I always knew meatballs didn’t come from the sky. I knew a frog and a toad couldn’t talk to me about life (because, as we all know, frogs and toads cannot talk.) But, at the same time, some books could be so captivating […]
Thermostats, Locks and Lights: Digital Tools of Domestic Abuse
From The New York Times authored by Nellie Bowles: “The people who called into the help hotlines and domestic violence shelters said they felt as if they were going crazy. One woman had turned on her air-conditioner, but said it then switched off without her touching it. Another said the code numbers of the digital […]
Women DO Ask for Raises—We Just Aren’t Getting Them
From In Style authored by Claire Wasserman: “It’s commonly assumed—and accepted as fact—that women don’t ask for raises as often as men do and so they don’t get them. Sheryl Sandberg’s 2013 bestseller Lean In told us that (and got a lot of flak for it), as did 2007’s Women Don’t Ask, one of the most heralded books on negotiation, […]
Yes, Impostor Syndrome Is Real. Here’s How to Deal With It
From TIME authored by Abagail Abrams: “Have you ever felt like you don’t belong? Like your friends or colleagues are going to discover you’re a fraud, and you don’t actually deserve your job and accomplishments? If so, you’re in good company. These feelings are known as impostor syndrome, or what psychologists often call impostor phenomenon. An […]
The Invisible Workload Of Motherhood Is Killing Me
From Scary Mommy authored by Erin Pepler: “Ask any mom about the invisible workload of motherhood and she knows exactly what you’re talking about. It’s the things we do for our families that are necessary but go completely unnoticed. The endless list of small tasks that would only ever draw attention if they didn’t happen. The mental […]
