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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...

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...
Let it be Friday: Weekly News Update

Let it be Friday: Weekly News Update

Welcome to Let It Be Friday!, where I say hello (and TGIF), and round up the lifestyle, career and business news that inspired, excited, made me smile (or laugh out loud). In historical news, NBC News reports Joy Ann Reid is set to host the Reid-Out on MSNBC, making...

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This pandemic is a wake-up call for working mothers

This pandemic is a wake-up call for working mothers

It takes a crisis to reveal the true character of situations. The current COVID-19 pandemic, as most crisis, is  revealing many, if not most of the inequities, around gender. One of the most striking manifestations of this is directly linked to parenting. The reality...

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Dealing with fear in uncertain times: Do it afraid

Dealing with fear in uncertain times: Do it afraid

Fear is real. It creeps up into every aspect of your life and work, paralyzing you and threatening to topple you at every turn. When fear overtakes not just you, but your entire network and community, it now becomes pandemonium. Times of uncertainty bring fear. They...

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Let it be Friday!

Let it be Friday!

Welcome to Let It Be Friday!, where I say hello (and TGIF), and round up the lifestyle, career and business news that inspired, excited, made me smile (or laugh out loud). In great diversity news, Black Enterprise reveals Javicia Leslie is set to be the first Black...

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