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The Feminization of Wealth: How to Reshape Our Financial Power

by Solange Lopes | February 12, 2025 | LIFESTYLE, Make More Money | 0 Comments

The other day, I innocently asked Dear Daughter why she did not ask me to go to the store instead of her dad. To which she quickly responded: “Mom, you’re kind of cheap…” After the initial maternal hurt and shock, coupled with the realization that my dear child...

On Integrating Motherhood and Career As a Working Mom

by Solange Lopes | January 22, 2025 | Career | 0 Comments

I was recently on a trip back home to Senegal to visit my aging parents. Sandwiched in between taking care of my parents, mothering my teens from a distance, and intermittently checking my work email, I realized how much motherhood had evolved for me. I was literally...

TCS Podcast Episode 58: 10 Steps to Audit Your Career

by Solange Lopes | January 10, 2025 | Career, PODCAST | 0 Comments

In this episode, I discuss ditching traditional career goals and instead embracing your own career vision by audting your career in the past 12 months. I discuss 10 steps to start with at the beginning of 2025 to audit your career. Listen in! Thanks for...

Less Goals, More Vision: 12 Steps to Audit Your Career this Year

by Solange Lopes | January 7, 2025 | Career, Find Your Purpose | 0 Comments

‘Tis the season to set big, lofty career goals for the New Year. It rolls around every year, lasts about a couple of days/weeks/minutes to a month and generally ends in a puddle of unanswered emails and too long meetings. If you’ve been there, you know what I’m...

From Exhausted Mom to Empowered Mama: Year-End Reflections

by Solange Lopes | December 28, 2024 | Working Mom & Woman Tips | 0 Comments

I remember being in mind-boggling traffic the day before Christmas, with still quite a few gifts left to get on my list, exhausted as could be. The year before, I had promised myself not to get to this point of exhaustion and overwhelm again during the holidays. Yet...

Let it Be Friday : News Roundup

by Solange Lopes | Feb 6, 2021

Let it be the Weekend is our news roundup featuring career, business and lifestyle news for working women and moms. If you would like to propose some news or topics we can cover, please email us at corporate@thecorporatesister.com This week, we salute icon Cicely...

7 Struggles Faced by Black Women in the Workplace

by Solange Lopes | Feb 3, 2021

“It’s hard to explain what it feels like to be a Black woman at work. “It feels like a long, invisible uphill battle.” “I feel like I can’t be myself at work, that I constantly have to perform.” These are a few of the words and feelings echoed by many...

3 Steps to Develop A New Professional Identity as a Working Woman

by Solange Lopes | Jan 31, 2021

“Who am I professionally?” I remember asking myself this question the very first time I attended a networking event and had to answer the question: “So, what do you do?” I also remember asking myself this same question at every critical turn of my life and career,...

7 Things to Let Go of in Your Career

by Solange Lopes | Jan 31, 2021

I’m learning the power of letting go in order to grow in all areas of my life. Work is no exception, especially after experiencing a global health pandemic that taught so many of us to let go of most of what we believed we couldn't live without. It took me a while to...

3 Steps to Create Your Career Reinvention Plan in 2021

by Solange Lopes | Jan 25, 2021

In 2020, we all learned to survive in the face of a global health pandemic, an economic crisis and the unfortunate losses of so many of the advances accomplished in diversity and gender equity. Now in 2021, we learn to reinvent ourselves and strive, what with all the...

7 Ways to Open Doors for Other Women at Work

by Solange Lopes | Jan 20, 2021

If you have ever wondered what you can do in your career to pave the way for other women, aside from being there as a working woman yourself, you are not alone. As working women, many, if not most of us, are keenly aware of the challenges we face in the workplace,...

“I may be the first, but I won’t be the last”: On the power of being the first and opening doors for other women

by Solange Lopes | Jan 20, 2021

At the time I’m writing these words, history has been made, yet again. Kamala Harris was just sworn in as the first woman, the first Black person, and the first woman of Asian descent to serve as Vice-President in the United States of America. This is history being...

Dear Working Mom, Sometimes Motherhood is Everything and Sometimes it’s not Enough, and that’s ok…

by Solange Lopes | Jan 15, 2021

Dear Working Mom is our periodic letter to working moms everywhere, where we talk about the challenges, joys and everything in between for working moms… Dear Working Mom, Remember when Miranda admitted to Charlotte in the Sex and the City sequel movie that although...

Let it be Friday! Weekly News Roundup

by Solange Lopes | Jan 15, 2021

Welcome to our news roundup Let it be Friday! This is our first News Roundup of 2021! This is where we gather all the news and tips that impact us as working women and working moms, share a few laughs, and encourage each other in the process. Here we go... This week,...

TCS Podcast Episode 24: The Career Reinvention Series – Part 1

by Solange Lopes | Jan 15, 2021

Welcome to our first TCS podcast episode of 2021! We're starting this year with the Career Reinvention Series, focused on helping working women and moms chart out the path for their own career reinvention. In this first part, we're discussing reinventing our mindsets...