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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...

Who runs the world? Girls – Book Review: The Power

by Solange Lopes | Oct 28, 2023

If there were ever a book that transported me to the quintessential alternate feminist stratosphere, it would be The Power. This 2016 novel, and 2023 Oprah Book Club pick, by British author and novelist Naomi Alderman depicts a tale of gender dominance rooted in the...

Somewhere between Ambitious Girl and Lazy Girl: Women Are Re-Defining the Best of Both Worlds

by Solange Lopes | Oct 23, 2023

Picture this…It’s Monday morning, 7am, you’ve already dropped off the kids at the bus stop and sent them off to school, fitting in a quick 10 minute walk with the dog in the process, and thrown a load of laundry in the washer…By 8am, you’ve made your plan for the day,...

TCS Podcast Episode 50: Negotiate Like a Woman!

by Solange Lopes | Sep 25, 2023

In this podcast, I discuss the impact of gender on the process of negotiation, and also on the outcomes! If you've struggled with negotiation as a working woman and mom, or just have been curious about it, this episode is for you! Some of the research cited in this...

Negotiate like a womanpreneur! Empowering Negotiation Tips for Women Entrepreneurs

by Solange Lopes | Sep 22, 2023

I remember discussing my very first paid speaking engagement and being unable to even utter a price when asked. Not only did I not know what to ask for, I also did not even have the courage and personal power to determine what I was worth. As a baby entrepreneur, I...

The Mother of All Negotiations: On Negotiating Flexible Schedules and Family-Friendly Policies as Working Moms

by Solange Lopes | Sep 20, 2023

As I started my career as a young professional woman, I was barely aware that I could negotiate my salary, let alone anything else. As I became a mother, it didn’t occur to me until a long time that I could negotiate for benefits including flexibility and other...

Negotiate like a woman! On Gender and Negotiation Working as a Working Woman

by Solange Lopes | Sep 18, 2023

I remember perusing article over article on negotiation tips while preparing for interviews as a young career woman. I had to do my research, come in with a certain number in mind, be assertive and not give in. Yet, somehow, more times than not, I ended up not even...

TCS Podcast Episode 49: Myth Buster: Women are not good entrepreneurs

by Solange Lopes | Sep 6, 2023

In this episode of the podcast, I'm busting one common myth that women are not good at entrepreneurship. Backed by research, this episode discusses how women are entrepreneurs at heart, and discusses 3 principles for women entrepreneurs. Listen in! Thanks for...

Why Women are Entrepreneurs at Heart: 3 Unconventional Principles of Entrepreneurship for Women

by Solange Lopes | Sep 4, 2023

I remember seeing women, many with babies hanging at their hips or suckling at their breasts, at the corners of sandy streets back home in Senegal, selling one product or another under the hot sun, from crackling roasted peanuts to fresh sorrel juice. At the time, I...

TCS Podcast Episode 48: Got post-summer financial recovery?

by Solange Lopes | Aug 27, 2023

In this episode of the podcast, I am discussing recovering financially after the often financially taxing days of summer, as working women and moms. In the episode, I share 3 main steps to recover financially after the summer. This podcast episode...

From vacation vibe to financial thrive: Post-summer financial recovery tips for working women and moms

by Solange Lopes | Aug 24, 2023

I don’t know about you, but the end of the summer is always a bit of a bittersweet moment for me. The (somewhat) sweet and lazy days of summer, peppered with kids’ chaos, traveling snafus and fridges emptying at the speed of the light, quickly give room to bitter and...