Leadership
You Can Be Empathetic and Still Hold People Accountable
Most people who manage others have been here. A team member misses a deadline for the third time, and the manager knows there is something hard going on in...
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Leadership
Essays
Why Starting Over Is So Hard to Talk About
There is a pause that follows when a woman tells someone she is starting over. It is rarely unkind. The other person's face softens, their head tilts...
Voices
Why Adult Female Friendships Can Be So Hard to Maintain
Most close relationships come with something that holds them in place. A marriage has a certificate and a shared address, a family has history and holidays...
Career
You Don't Have to Be Ready for Every Opportunity
Most of us can name an opportunity we read once, felt a flicker of interest in, and then closed. The page stayed open in a tab for a day or two while a qui...
Career
The Broken Rung in the Path to Leadership
Most of us were handed the same picture of how women get stuck at work. A ladder stretches upward, and near the top there is a pane of glass that lets you...
Podcast
Dr. Nicole Odom-Hardnett: Building a Business That Keeps Growing With You
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...
Editorial Team ·Oct 2026·2 min
Voices
What It Really Means for Women to Support Women
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...
Voices
What If Your Dream Changed
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
The First Question to Ask About a New Leadership Role
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
There Is More Than One Way to Be Successful
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
The Second Message is the One that Gets Answered
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
The Experience You Don't Think Counts
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...
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