Essays, features, and honest perspectives from women navigating work, leadership, care, identity, transition, and change.
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The complete collection of published essays, interviews, profiles, and practical perspectives.
Podcast
Dr. Nicole Odom-Hardnett did not build her career from one perfect business idea. She experimented, changed direction, learned from what did not work, and...
Relationships
A sentence that ended up printed on a Starbucks cup began its life as a private joke between diplomats. Madeleine Albright said she first used the line alm...
Somewhere in a drawer, a notes app, or an old journal, most of us have a version of the plan we made when we were younger. It might say we would own a rest...
Leadership
A promotion arrives as a single word, and that word does a lot of talking before anyone else says anything. Manager, director, head of, lead. The title tel...
Essays
Most of us inherit a definition of success before we ever get to choose one. It arrives through a parent's expectations, a school's rankings, a s...
Business
Outreach means writing first to someone who does not know you yet, such as a potential client, a partner, a sponsor, or a podcast host. Most people send on...
Career
A woman runs the school fundraiser, and it raises more money than it did the year before. She keeps the household budget balanced through a stretch when tw...
Leadership
Somewhere in almost every office, a birthday card is traveling from desk to desk. Someone bought it, someone found a pen that still writes, and someone rem...
Career
Every workplace has one person who never drops a thing. She remembers whose birthday falls on Thursday, rewrites the client deck at nine at night, and know...
Podcast
Catherine Okubo went from helping lead a multimillion-dollar family business to losing her home and cleaning houses to support her family. She shares what...
Career
Most workplaces have a woman everyone relies on. She knows the clients, solves the problem before anyone notices it, and trains the new hires without being...
Career
Most good introductions end the same way. Two people talk for thirty minutes, the conversation is warm, someone says "Let's keep in touch,"...
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