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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...
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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...
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,"...
Bloom
There are four months left in this year. Not a lot. Not a little. Just enough time to stop pretending and get honest about what you actually want the rest...
Career
You can know hundreds of people and still have no one who understands what you do, what you need, or when to mention your name. This is the most common net...
Podcast
Sophia DuJardot has a lot to say about what happens when technology starts replacing the people who create. We talk about AudioMazes, fair pay for women, f...
Business
A promising collaboration can make you want to start right away. You see what each person could bring, picture what the two of you could build, and assume...
Business
A woman running a service business with eleven thousand followers and four clients does not have a marketing problem she can solve by getting to twenty tho...
Bloom
There is a particular kind of woman who will read this and recognize herself immediately, and she is usually the one who least needs another reason to keep...
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