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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...

4 types of gender biases in performance reviews you should look out for

by Solange Lopes | December 5, 2024 | Career | 0 Comments

As one of the only women at work, I used to dread performance review time, especially at year-end. Although I was supposed to know what to expect, it was most often a somewhat unclear, hence stressful experience. However, the more I’ve grown personally and...

Is gratitude a trap for women? How to navigate the gratitude trap as a woman

by Solange Lopes | November 30, 2024 | Working Mom & Woman Tips | 0 Comments

I remember it like it was yesterday. I had just left a well-paying job with benefits, with no backup plan other than following my purpose. With two young children, a mortgage and bills shared with my husband, I took the most dangerous leap of faith I could have ever...

TCS Podcast Episode 56: The Summer Recap Edition

by Solange Lopes | Sep 6, 2024

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)

by Solange Lopes | Aug 30, 2024

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...

The Rest Bias for Women: Uncovering the Struggle and Power of Doing Nothing as a Working Woman

by Solange Lopes | Aug 6, 2024

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…

by Solange Lopes | Jul 31, 2024

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...

At the Intersection of Work and Home: Reconciling Leading at Home and at Work as Working Women and Moms

by Solange Lopes | Jul 29, 2024

It is often said that moms make great leaders, probably the best leaders. The invaluable, often innate skills that come from motherhood, from intuition, to organization and effective team management, are also described as main leadership qualities; qualities which...

TCS Podcast Episode 55: Can I lead authentically as a woman at work?

by Solange Lopes | May 18, 2024

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,...

Can Women Authentically Lead at Work?

by Solange Lopes | Mar 23, 2024

“Can I lead authentically as a woman at work?” This is a question I often asked myself coming up in my own career. As a young Black woman and immigrant starting my career in corporate America, leadership was hardly ever mentioned around me. After all, I felt lucky...

5 Unconventional Tips to Be More Confident as a Woman Entrepreneur

by Solange Lopes | Mar 4, 2024

Have you ever considered becoming an entrepreneur and literally shirked at the prospect of putting yourself out there? Do you feel you don’t have the confidence it takes to launch your own entrepreneurial dreams, especially in industries and areas where women are in...

Confident like a mother! On Developing Confidence as a Working Mom

by Solange Lopes | Mar 4, 2024

The other day, I was in the middle of disciplining one of my babies (who are no longer babies), when the thought “ I have no idea what I’m doing” crossed my mind. As a Black mom of a pre-teen and a full-blown teenager, these moments in my working mom life are...

TCS Podcast Episode 54: Redefining Your Own Brand of Confidence as a Working Woman

by Solange Lopes | Feb 24, 2024

Got confidence? In this podcast episode, I'm chatting about dismantling the myth that confidence is solely associated with male and patriarchal attributes such as assertiveness, boldness, and even aggressiveness. Instead, I discuss my own journey of steering away from...