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The Friendship Breakup No One Talks About
The Friendship Breakup No One Talks About

My friend and I stopped speaking on a Tuesday in October. There was no fight. There was no final conversation. There was a text I did not answer in th...

I Walked Away From the Career I Built and Started Over
I Walked Away From the Career I Built and Started Over

Three weeks before my forty-second birthday, I quit my job. I had been a senior director at the same...

How to Recognize When a Job Is Costing You More Than It Pays
How to Recognize When a Job Is Costing You More Than It Pays

Here is something almost no one tells you when you take a new job. The salary is the easy number to...

How to Actually Rest When You Have Forgotten How
How to Actually Rest When You Have Forgotten How

There is a moment that happens to a lot of women in the middle of a Saturday. The morning chores are...

How Female Founders Are Quietly Rewriting the Rules of Business
How Female Founders Are Quietly Rewriting the Rules of Business

In a small office above a bakery in Portland, Maine, a woman named Rachel runs a consulting firm tha...

Women Do Not Need More Motivation. They Need Support.
Women Do Not Need More Motivation. They Need Support.

There is a particular kind of advice that gets aimed at women, and it has been the same for decades....

VOICES OF INVENTION
VOICES OF INVENTION

You watch your father slump in his chair, uncomfortable and in pain, and you search for something th...

Why Women Need Spaces Where They Do Not Have to Perform
Why Women Need Spaces Where They Do Not Have to Perform

There is a face most women put on before they leave the house. It is the face that says everything i...

Sophia DuJardot: Architect of the Next Generation of Storytelling
Sophia DuJardot: Architect of the Next Generation of Storytelling

Sophia DuJardot has built her career on a simple instinct: when something is missing, she creates it...

Why We Limited The Voice of Industry to 50 Women
Why We Limited The Voice of Industry to 50 Women

When we started planning The Voice of Industry Weekend, we had a choice to make about size. We could...

Cindy Trice: The Voice She Almost Lost
Cindy Trice: The Voice She Almost Lost

Cindy Trice was 35 years old when she finally became a veterinarian. She had just graduated. The car...

What Women Leaders Are Quietly Carrying Every Day
What Women Leaders Are Quietly Carrying Every Day

There is a particular kind of woman who walks into the office looking entirely put together. Her cal...

The Voice of Industry Weekend
The Voice of Industry Weekend

The Voice of Industry Weekend is an intentional three-day gathering for women who lead, build, and c...

The Difference Between Networking and Real Connection
The Difference Between Networking and Real Connection

Most women I know have a particular feeling about networking events. It sits somewhere between dread...

The Year Everything Changed and No One Noticed
The Year Everything Changed and No One Noticed

There is a particular kind of year that does not look like a turning point while you are living it....

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