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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...

Sister Friends: On Developing Healthy Friendships with Other Women

by Solange Lopes | Mar 12, 2020

“You’re my person”: When Cristina Yang (Sandra Oh) uttered the now famously coined phrase to her best friend Meredith Grey (Ellen Pompeo) as she shares her decision to put her name down as an emergency contact for her upcoming abortion, it took on a life of its own,...

Let it Be Friday!

by Solange Lopes | Feb 21, 2020

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). As we're honoring Black History Month, we're also looking forward to the opening of the first...

3 Questions you Must Ask to Find Fulfillment in a career you Don’t Love

by Solange Lopes | Feb 19, 2020

In the midst of all the talk about purpose, business success stories, happy entrepreneurial endings, and so on and so forth, it can be tempting to look down at your current career. As you stroll through the pages of Instagram, you may even be experiencing some serious...

Sis, do the (mindset) work: How to keep your fears and feelings from ruining your career

by Solange Lopes | Feb 18, 2020

"Leaders must either invest a reasonable amount of time attending to fears and feelings, or squander an unreasonable amount of time trying to manage ineffective and unproductive behaviors." Brene Brown This quote from one of my favorite of Brene Brown's books "Dare to...

Ageism and the Working Woman: Does aging mean we have to give up on career fulfillment and success?

by Solange Lopes | Feb 13, 2020

Have you ever taken a look at the list of Forbes Under 30, or Forbes Under 40, as you ponder the fact that you need your own list for your own age group? Do you sometimes (or often) wonder as you climb up the age ladder, if you will continue to climb up your own...

Mama’s tired: Cracking the Myth of the Modern SuperMom

by Solange Lopes | Feb 12, 2020

Sitting in the waiting room at the dance class studio while my daughter was taking ballet, after arriving rushedly a few minutes late, I looked around at all the other parents around me. Most of them were moms, and most of them, were looking slightly, or...

What Goldman Sachs is teaching the world about gender diversity

by Solange Lopes | Feb 9, 2020

Recently, Goldman Sachs shook the business world by announcing that starting July 2021, it will no longer help companies perform IPOs unless said companies include diversity on its board, with a focus on women. What this decision also means is a significant departure...

Let it be Friday!

by Solange Lopes | Jan 31, 2020

Welcome to the 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). This week, we mourned on Sunday the loss of iconic basketball player and sports legend Kobe...

Soft is the new successful: How to re-focus on your soft skills at work as a working woman

by Solange Lopes | Jan 29, 2020

As working women, many of us have been conditioned to favor hard rather than soft skills at work. For the longest time, soft skills such as negotiating, listening, public speaking, or writing skills, to cite a few, were relegated to the background, in favor of hard...

TCS Podcast Episode 20: Caring for our mental health as working women and moms

by Solange Lopes | Jan 11, 2020

In this episode of The Corporate Sister podcast, I’m discussing why and how we, as working women and working moms, should and can care for our mental health, whether through therapy or other ways of prioritizing our minds. From treating our minds as our best assets,...