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Got Dense Breasts? Why You Should Care and How It Affects Your Breast Cancer Risk

by Solange Lopes | November 2, 2024 | Career | 0 Comments

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

by Solange Lopes | October 14, 2024 | Career | 0 Comments

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

by Solange Lopes | September 6, 2024 | Career, PODCAST | 0 Comments

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 | August 30, 2024 | Career | 0 Comments

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 | August 6, 2024 | Self-care, Working Mom & Woman Tips | 0 Comments

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...

Fighting perfectionism: 3 strategies to relinquish the need for control as a working mom

by Solange Lopes | Oct 2, 2020

As working moms, there is so much depending on us at the family, personal and professional level. It can also mean carrying oodles of responsibilities that sometimes end up hurting us more than help us. For those of us who may have perfectionist tendencies, this can...

Let It Be the Weekend!

by Solange Lopes | Sep 18, 2020

Let It Be the Weekend is our news roundup of the most recent news that sparked our working moms' interest and that we want to share here... In honor of National Hispanic Heritage Month, Google is spotlighting Latino businesses;The Corporate Sister has a few deets on...

Dear Working Mom, You Don’t Have to Compare Yourself to Other Moms

by Solange Lopes | Sep 18, 2020

Dear Working Mom is our periodic love letter to working moms everywhere, tackling some of the issues we deal with as working mamas and spreading love to all working moms out there... How many times have you looked at what other moms are doing, questioning the validity...

How to use your career as a platform for social justice

by Solange Lopes | Sep 15, 2020

Social justice has been on the minds of many, if not most of us, lately. In the midst of the two pandemics we’ve been experiencing, from COVID-19 to racial unrest, so many of us have been asking ourselves how we can contribute to improving social justice. In this...

Got Virtual Networking: 3 Simple Ways to Network Online

by Solange Lopes | Sep 10, 2020

How do you network when you can’t actually physically meet people? That’s the question so many of us grapple with in the new normal that the COVID-19 pandemic has placed us in. Instead of naturally meeting in person, we’re now forced to interact through a screen and...

3 tips for outstanding virtual presentations

by Solange Lopes | Sep 9, 2020

In this new COVID-19 virtual era that our “new normal” is, giving virtual presentations, whether for an interview, or career or business-related, has become indispensable. However, mastering the art of giving effective virtual presentations can present a few...

Let it be the weekend: Weekly News Roundup

by Solange Lopes | Sep 5, 2020

Let it the be the Weekend is our weekly news roundup, where we share fun, exciting and breaking news for working women and moms... This week hit us hard as the world is grieving the loss of Chadwick Boseman, our beloved Wakanda Forever King T'Challa;In historical news...

Dear Working Mom, You are not crazy, this back-to-school season is terrifying

by Solange Lopes | Sep 5, 2020

Dear Working Mom is our weekly love letter to working moms everywhere, where we talk about motherhood, life, work and everything in between… Dear Working Mom, First off, let me tell you, you have been doing an amazing job these past few months, handling the new normal...

Moving with Kids: The 10 Commandments of Moving as a Working Mom

by Solange Lopes | Sep 3, 2020

Moving is a process. Moving with kids is…a very complicated process, which I had the opportunity to learn the hard way recently after 14 years in our beloved first home. Little did I anticipate the amount of work, frustration, and sheer exhaustion that comes with...

Ask a CPA: How can I save money during this pandemic?

by Solange Lopes | Sep 2, 2020

One thing this pandemic has taught so many of us is that our financial situations can change from one day to the other. While some were able to save money working from home, many lost their jobs during the pandemic, and others were furloughed, uncertain as to their...