The Corporate Sister is a platform and community for and of working women and moms committed to working and living on purpose, according to their own definition of success, and promoting gender diversity in the workplace.
Got Dense Breasts? Why You Should Care and How It Affects Your Breast Cancer Risk
The letter came in the mail a couple of days before I even got a chance to open it. It was a routine mammogram I thought nothing of, like most of the other mammograms I had done before. Except this one was a tad different… The word “abnormal” jumped at me from the...
From Career Sacrifice to Career Focus: Managing your Career in a Sustainable Way as a Working Woman
Have you ever wondered how you can advance your career while being a woman, wife and/or mother, and not having to work 40+ hours every week? Have you ever considered cloning yourself so you could do all the things, everywhere at the same time? You’re certainly not the...
TCS Podcast Episode 56: The Summer Recap Edition
This episode is a summer recap for my working women and moms, looking back at the reality of the summer mental load, the power of doing nothing at all (yes, it's possible!), and how to make our careers hot again in the summer months (without sacrificing our summer fun...
7 Ways to Enrich Your Career In The Summer (Without Hijacking Your Summer Fun)
It’s the middle of summer, and I am trying out a new African restaurant with a colleague and a new professional acquaintance while nerding out on artificial intelligence during a work conference. Here I was, actually enjoying myself and advancing my career, while...
No More Confidence Bias! How I’m redefining confidence as a working woman and mom
How many times have you heard women “need to be more confident at work”? How many times have you yourself, in your own career and life experience, been told that you needed to be more confident? And if you happen to be confident, how many times have you perceived or...
How to build a schedule that works better for you.
How many times have you wondered why there are not more hours in a day? How many times have you been so frazzled, stressed, and paralyzed at the thought that you don't have enough time to do everything that's on your plate? And how often do you find yourself at the...
You Can Find Your Purpose Right Where You Are
“How do I even begin to find my purpose?” "I don’t know what my purpose is." “I don’t even have time to sit somewhere for a minute, never mind think about finding my purpose.” Whenever I start talking about purpose with a fellow working mom or working woman, I get...
4 Belief Systems that Keep You Trapped At Work and in Life
As working women, the challenges facing us at work and in life are numerous. While many of these challenges come from external circumstances, some of them are very much internal. As a matter of fact, some of the most powerful obstacles that keep us trapped at work and...
TCS Podcast Episode 56: The Summer Recap Edition
This episode is a summer recap for my working women and moms, looking back at the reality of the summer mental load, the power of doing nothing at all (yes, it's possible!), and how to make our careers hot again in the summer months (without sacrificing our summer fun...
The Rest Bias for Women: Uncovering the Struggle and Power of Doing Nothing as a Working Woman
For the first time in my adult life, I took a month off. An entire month off, traveling, seeing new places, swimming in the ocean and mostly “being” as opposed to “doing”. And it shocked the entire heck out of my system, my overachieving, productivity-minded, A-type...
Can we talk about the heavy summer mental load for working moms? And how to unload it for good…
If you’ve found yourself drowning in summer activities’ plans, getaways, packing and unpacking for trips, all the while striving to have kids keep up with their summer work and you with yours, then you may have experienced a specific kind of mental load affecting...
TCS Podcast Episode 55: Can I lead authentically as a woman at work?
In this episode, I address the question of authentic (and different) leadership for working women and working moms. I discuss: 1)revisiting our beliefs about leadership, 2) challenging the foundations of leadership in the organizations and institutions we're part of,...